, Geoff called it "rubbish" and demanded a take it off the turntable! I got rid of them, I have sold them. I guaranty you, the ZYX was cut either from a CD or some other source that the mastering engineer completely ruined when he cut it. I have plenty of LPs from the 50s, 60s and 70s that were cut 100% analog every step of the way (obviously) and still sound horrible. This is supposed to sound good. I completely agree with Mickey that it's dicey at best with remasters if the info is limited. Bryan Ferry, Dylanesque, 96/24. Obviously if you only want the classics then you will usually get a good deal but if it's anything that was on an independent Been reading Plain Recordings and 4 Men With Beards are one in the same and have the same mailing address. The audio has noticeable background noise, but it's definitely because of the source and not from the record itself. Music Lovers = we make money by cutting corners not by cutting from masters. So not really "original masters". It's not easy! Electric Warrior on the original Fly label, with Porky and Pecko Duck in the deadwax truly rocks. The non-recorded areas are extremely quiet. The ones I have heard are uniformly crap. Rolling Stones, get your ya yas out reissue box set; 96/24. And in the end, I believe we would be better served by greater transparency about sources and mastering because the current atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion not helpful. Experience live in-store music and artist signing events. I would like to say that I am more of the persuasion that record companies are ripping everyone off by knowingly releasing an inferior sounding product to keep the "remaster" business going. I'm not sure I see the value in such a thread. So, like probably many people I thought buying 180 or 200 gram remastered vinyl was a good thing. Their website states this: As for our sources; We are provided with the best possible (analogue) masters available. How many generations down they were is open to debate but MMT was definitely 4th generation. There never was a true mono master for many of these. The Classic Series will once again feature all-analog 180g vinyl pressings in standard packaging that are mastered by Kevin . Seem like they're readily available and less than $15/LP. Last time I checked, they didn't even have a website, just an email address, which also makes one suspicious that the operation is a bit fly-by-night. I have a couple of other artists from that label, and they're ok; nothing to write home about. The really important question is, are theextra tracks 88/24? Heaven only knows how they got here and in the surprisingly good sound quality. Clinical alerts and reminders. eXhibit Records/Soundboard This is an exchange with HD Tracks I had a while ago. I have bought a couple of records from this label for $15+tax: Ray Charles and Grant Green, and found the quality to be poor. I haven't listened to it yet but this is a lesson learned. From: Support [mailto:contact@hdtracks.com] The T-Rex "Electric Warrior" reissue is also "apparently" Hi Resolution digital, though I haven't heard it. Thanks for that information. This guide is intended for owners and operators of all PWSs serving fewer than 10,000 persons. The truth of the matter is records in good condition have a higher sound quality than any other medium - even better than a modern CD or DVD. My understanding is that when Simply Vinyl licensed titles from EMI, the label used analog sources from its vault but other label sources are a crap shoot and mostly sound mediocre. Kevin Gray didn't convert the mono tapes to digital. The tell-tale sign to me is that, while the jacket art is pretty close to the original, the label never is -- it's always a Wax Time label, never Columbia, etc. Try finding a really good sounding Stones record on the London label. Glad someone else noticed. She hit the brakes, put some money in my elder brother's hands (he was the bravest of us three boys, although not the eldest) and said "Tell the store owner that your mom wants to buy the man hanging in the window." Thank you ! I do not have a crazy material, but I tend to perfect my system. But still other times you get nothing, yet you're asked to plunk down big bucks for these reissues. We do get it from certain labels, like Mobile Fidelity, ORG, ORG Music, Analogue Productions, Music Matters, IMPEX, Mosaic, Rhino, Pure Pleasure, Speakers Corner, Reference Recordings, more recently Sony/Legacy and probably a few others I can't recall off the top of my head. The Electric Prunes and (Reprise) Meters albums sound great, the Josies are OK since the original recordings weren't that great but the music will get you moving. Vinyl Lovers definitely cuts from CDs. But I know people that will refuse on principle to buy any vinyl that they know to have had its purity of analog essence contaminated by digital. I've never heard a 1st pressing, only CD masters until this point, so I can only compare what I have heard. I do not see how the discs of Jazz that are fifty years old, or discs of Caetano Veloso like Tropicalia (1968) can be considered as being in the public domain. If it's a CD, which is probably is, then it's an excellent sounding CD. And here's a reissue to steer WAY clear of WaxTime Lilith and others and the public domain, What about the Japan EMI DBLP Blue Note mono Reissue. How is the pressing quality? http://robertmusic.blogspot.fr/2011/11/about-those-toshiba-japan-blue-no https://www.discogs.com/Santana-Abraxas/release/16479144, Love Those Vintage British Pressings? This study identifies and describes current uses of EMR data for performance measurement and considerations to further its potential in the Canadian context. At 7 a pop, I have little to complain about. Of course they have their own set of problems. It really stinks to drop $50 on a brand new copy of "The Wall" only to be inundated by staticky noise. Most of what I've read isn't positive. Actual production runs may not be as consistent as test pressings. This goes way back to the original Mobile Fidelity LP's from the 70's and 80's. You'd think there'd be some obsessive on the internet keeping track of this stuff. Rolling Stones, "Rarities 1971 - 2005". How do these rate? The resteither duplicates or some other explanation. There is a wealth of music being reissued on vinyl, but not all labels are equal. The Hoffman/Gray re-issues from Analogue Productions and Music Matters are spectacular, and a benchmark for how an audiophile re-issue should be made and marketed. Yet they state quite clearly on the back that they were pressed at RTI and mastered by Kevin Gray and Joe Reagoso from the original Columbia Tapes. So while it's true that this LP sounds as if the movie soundtrack was being played through an old radio, I feel that the people at Doxy put their best effort on giving the collectors a high quality product, at least regarding manufacturing. We later went used record shopping in Athens and I found an original Pablo Sarah Vaughn for a few bucks in near mint condition. They have also released some excellent sounding pressings, for example of film soundtracks or historical compilationsthey are not a pure re-issue label, they also have original releases, though no original artists I think. And some post partial information, like on some John Coltrane reissues that have a sticker that says "Sourced by Rhino, distributed by Scorpio.". the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. Well if the source and other info is listed on the record, of course consider that release. One of their LPs I bought had a blob of glue in the middle of side one, and this was a $40 Comus LP. Wasn't terribly impressed with it, either. Mark Hammar is a Certied Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence through the American Society for Quality and has been a Quality Professional since 1994. Quality of Miles Davis on Ermitage 180 gram Vinyl Discussion in ' Music Forums ' started by T68, Feb 16, 2019 . To your specific inquiry, the original analog master tapes were the source for our remastered vinyl release of Chet Atkins & Les Paul, "Chester & Lester" (eXLP1-44061). All are flat and muddy sounding. There is amazing variation,the "Exile" reissue sounds like a shrill, lifeless compressed mess. The VA's Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP) began investigating the alleged misconduct in November 2021 in response to the OMI's findings, according to internal emails . Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (other duties may be assigned): Maintains working knowledge of Federal, State, and Local environmental laws regulations. I had the original European vinyl. The current Trulia Estimate for 328 Compass Poin is $454,000. 4 Men With Beards? The point is, you can't even necessarily believe what you read on the jacket! Anyone have any experince with the following: All of the Meters and Electric Prunes albums have the "manufactured by Rhino" sticker on the shrinkwrap. Don't you? In addition to communicating vital patient care information, the medical record provides documentation of appropriate evaluation, treatment, and services. With these mono (false mono) too much clean and uniform. I bought 3 records, opened only 1 - Jacob Fischer Trio/My Romance. I do not know whether these rights are the slightest in Russia, Spain, or Italy, but I doubt it seriously. He never had the original mono tapes. great sounding Wax Time reissues are sold widely by reputable record stores like Amoeba and Rasputin, and while not in the price range of the true audiophile masterings, they're not exactly cheap, eithertypically about $20 retail at a brick and mortar store. For your general information, unlike other reissue companies, we have only ever used analog masters on our vinyl releases. It's a Universal remaster. A look a the photos of the tape boxes that appered in the box set were very revealing. While the Music on Vinyl might be from a high rez digital source (although given I've never seen one on HDTracks etc, maybe not), it definitely isn't just ripped from CD, as the mixes are distinctly different. However, all the trouble began when I got to track 5 and it skipped twice (very bad, jumpy skips). They are: Serge Gainsbourg Consider this answering your question without directly addressing your question". West Hollywood, CA 90069". I had a track on a CD made from the original pressing and we compared the two and the CD killed the vinyl played back on a very good turntable. It's definitely a good effort. Pablo was a Norman Granz label (Granz founded Verve among other labels) that used top engineers and the RCA vinyl infrastructure to process its albums and what this guy was playing me sounded wrong. But there's no guaranty the LP was actually cut from the tape because Sundazed doesn't specify who cut and from what. Call me crazy (and you wouldn't be the first!) If you spend $25-$50 on a reissue, all the info should be printed on the album jacket, or available in plain sight on the reissue companies, and dealers, websites, including source tape, mastering chain (absence of digital), mastering engineer (s), manufacturing plant. ). Sound is Ok, sounds digital, a bit flat. Great sounding, good dynamics. No information is lost. If you're talking about the Rhino Electric Warrior, I don't know what it was cut or sourced from, but the record itself was noisy, and I was not impressed with the sound. LIke the original reissues of the Tom Waits Elektra albums Rhino issued that were stickered "cut from the original analog master tapes" when in fact, they'd been "cut" by Ron McMaster at Capitol from 96/24 files (per Tom's instructions) produced from the original master tapes. Many of them were cut at places like Bell Sound that used dupes of dupes for cutting, and they sound awful. Then on the other side 3 versions of I think Jeepster. Hi! View 110 Hermitage Ave, Lafayette, LA 70503 property records for FREE including property ownership, deeds, mortgages, titles & sales history, current & historic tax assessments, legal, parcel & structure description, land use, zoning & more. Same deal for Jazz Wax Records, too -- more public domain stuff that appears to be 'mastered' from CDs. Once again I'll point out it's the labels that choose the plants and allow bad product to reach the market, they should be named and shamed so that they use the better plants and pay extra for things like poly-lined inner sleeves. Finally we realized it was the identical take but sounding soooo wrong, it was difficult to identify. Marginal improvement over the CD. There is a limited vinyl 12" that came out for record day with 3 or 4 versions of "Get it on", Accoustic, Electric and a boogie version! But it is so long that it has become difficult to mine for relevant information. Sorry. It also is used to evaluate practitioner performance, to monitor resource use, and to determine . It sounds quite respectable. Take a look. Data rates are typically higher than this during the recording, mixing, and mastering process. October 23, 2020. Best see if you can find a review before purchase, or whether you can give it a listen. 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