I pulled out my original copy and, although it lived a hard life during my misspent youth, it still sounded way better than the Vinyl Lovers. I hope to see the thread keep going with peoples opinions on other reissues. Consider this answering your question without directly addressing your question". These were all sourced from Capitol submasters and not EMI originals. Juliette Greco While I do try to chiefly hunt down original pressings of my favorite albums, the occasional re-release is unavoidable for the unobtainable. (Swiss-Italian Radio Orch./ Scherchen. These were widely anticipated in Japan, but soon after they came out, a number of independent specialist retailers in Japan stopped selling them, citing the dubiousness of the sources, indeed, some audio journalists published in Japan did a detailed comparison to originals, and also expressed serious doubts about the validity of the sources. I have some Elvis gold CDs that sound better. Are they worth buying? Wasn't terribly impressed with it, either. Concord Music Group's Original Jazz Classics. I have bought a lot of reissues years ago without the knowledge of digital to vinyl sacrilege that I now know about. That's their right of course, but I swear it's almost like a disease..okay, I'm probably ranting about this in the wrong place. The 68 records which did not allow for accurate identification (38 records with poor image quality, and 30 records without a picture), were removed. Electronic medical records and quality improvement Neurosurg Clin N Am. West Hollywood, CA 90069". People buy it under the impression it's analogue. It is HUGE. 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. When I played the record back, it played beautifully with no more skips. It's not 100% accurate or complete, but I haven't seen better elsewhere. They sound fantastic to me, but note they do not say original analog masters. I have no idea. 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). Thank you for shining light on this topic. I have sent emails to Capital and 4 Men with Beards about the source of certain LPs and they never responded. To: contact@hdtracks.com the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. Often you can see a "WG/NRP" on the inner groove area, which means "Wes Garland at Nashville Record Productions" did the cutting even though the credits say "mastered by Bob Irwin". Could be I get more Optimal product than any other but I have had a fair number of pressings with one off faults. "Sourced from" does not necessarily mean "cut from.". If there is a bad pressing - is commentary more likely to be offered in a unfocused and unwieldy general thread on bad pressings or in a thread focused on that specific recording/release? If it's a CD, which is probably is, then it's an excellent sounding CD. As Canadian primary health care (PHC) EMRs mature, there is increasing potential use of EMR data for performance measurement. With these mono (false mono) too much clean and uniform. Great article and followup posts. How do I go about researching who is issuing what? There is amazing variation,the "Exile" reissue sounds like a shrill, lifeless compressed mess. Legend also states that because of the availability of the "Pink Moon" original tape, it is the only remaster done with an entirely analog signal path. Watch out when the Beatles, Stones and others get into the public domain here. See their past imports and exports, including shipments to Charlois Cooperage Usa in Cloverdale, California. or someone at the American affiliate made some foolish mastering choices and forced them on the Bell Sound cutting engineer. It's one of the flattest and most perfectly centered records I've seen in my life. I'm going by mostlymemory here since I've long parted with mine. But still other times you get nothing, yet you're asked to plunk down big bucks for these reissues. There has been a long history of decpetive marketing, as we are slowly finding out. I built a low budget LP playback system (below) a few years ago and, frankly, the sound is uninspiring. Unsurprisingly, if you can pass off 44.1/16k as a full analogue chain and sell it as such, why tell people? . Just because something's been pressed on 180 gram vinyl doesn't mean its going to sound good or that it was sourced from analog. Same for "together through life". Early studies on digital data quality within electronic health records revealed a long list of concerns including: incompleteness, duplication, inconsistent organization, fragmentation and an inadequate use . Back then I bought the MFSL Magical Mystery Tour, unfortunately. I'm not good with lists. T68 Super Member Messages: 2,868 Location: Sweden Hi! The primary data studies achieved a mean score of 4.3 (SD 1.37; theoretical maximum 10); the secondary data studies a mean score of 7.1 (SD 1.26; theoretical maximum 9). . Interesting reading, especially your opinions on Music On Vinyl. The German Horzu pressing of Magical Mystery Tour is of course incredible compared to all the rest. Hi Michael and everybody. I emailed Music on Vinyl and this is the response I got. We have Received a Contact Inquiry From Martin Well if the source and other info is listed on the record, of course consider that release. Great track selection, pretty questionable sound from various sources. But HD Tracks says 88kHz/24bit files. This is unfortunate because, as you note, LPs cut from hi-rez digital can sound fantastic. The album is badly in need of a proper scrubbing, and sounds as noisy as ever, but we still love giving it a spin. EHRs Support Provider Decision Making. They used Capitol 3 & 4th generation copies, Parlophone eq'd dubs etc. Looking into buying some Miles Davis records that are discounted right now at a Swedish online shop. That belies a lack of understanding of how cutting to vinyl works. Too bad they usually screw up the reissues, in my opinion knowingly. I have a few CD's which have no compression or equalization at all (such as Al Stewarts's Year of the Cat MFCD-803) and when you listen to it you wonder why we are compressing the dynamics at all. The quality of vinyl that consumers buy is actually the responsibility of the labels and not the pressing plants, labels should monitor what they are putting into the market and withdraw any faulty pressing runs, it's labels quality control that is failing vinyl, too many people skipping test presses or not even bothering to listen to them, I also checked the fine print on the back cover and found "this compilation copyright 2008 Lilith Records" and "manufactured in EU under license from OOO 'Universal Music', Russia". Thanks for replying, jgannon! There are others too. Compressed and terrible sounding Recorded 2/65. Vinyl Lovers definitely cuts from CDs. That is, out of 1026 observations that were identified at the species rank in iNaturalist, 39 had an incorrect genus, 25 an incorrect family, and . has been recently discussed regarding "HD" downloads and of other digital files (and even including analog formats). Don't you? Sundazed always sounds good. They are taking advantage of the EU law that puts stuff beyond a certain age in the public domain. Show Newport, and It's so crackly, back it goes. The main Quality record page provides information that may have been filled out when the Quality record was created and/or may need to be modified at different Phases. Would be a great idea for a reissue. But believe whatever you want. 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. Sometimes we get slightly fudged information. Peppersucked too. ", Let the world know what you think about a record: Write a Review on Discogs! Granados . Of course, the CBS Mastersound LP of Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is a great example of this. Transparency in what you buy in music is not good. Considering how full of errors Discogs already is and that there is no objective way of measuring pressing quality then it wouldn't be something that worked well, the best thing to do is learn which plants pressed most of your favourite records and those that pressed the ones with most problems, buy from the former and avoid the latter. It sounds quite respectable. Great to see the reissue of Some Girls is now on HD Tracks. Yes I should have mentioned them as "musts to avoid." I'd encourage the companies to provide much more information for sure. I see their stuff sold here in real, reputable record stores like Jecklin and other places. Something is definitely wrong with that Hyper Magnum Sound Direct Mix Stereo. Not particularly good Sundazed's mistake was to not put its name on them! I've been toying with the idea of replacing the Pro-Ject pre with a Bellari VP-130 tube pre amp, but I am wary of throwing money at the problem out of blind ignorance. Not very, I'd say. Bought it anyway, and wasn't super happy. Not even close and obviously cut from a commercial CD. After this last purchase, and your article, this will be definetely one label that I shall be avoiding like the plague. How many generations down they were is open to debate but MMT was definitely 4th generation. Or just 44.1/24 masquerading as 88/24? I'm not sure I see the value in such a thread. Epub . Price: 85. Marche Hongroise, Schumann . 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. True story! Keywords: health care costs, unannounced standardized patients, medical ethics; medical records; quality of health care. Ie., fully open. Sylvie Vartan. Uberlight Flex LED Task Light Is Up to the Task! 2) we don't know what we cut this LP from. But there's no guaranty the LP was actually cut from the tape because Sundazed doesn't specify who cut and from what. To this day I think it's my brightest-sounding LP. Early History of the Ermitage family. For your general information, unlike other reissue companies, we have only ever used analog masters on our vinyl releases. Not uniformly bad but definately hit or miss, and for typical vinyl prices I can't afford to take chances on labels like these. The Mo-Fi UHQR of Sgt. 2015 Apr;26(2):245-51, ix. I can read it online! Rolling Stones, "Stripped" double LP. If the analog master and mastering was used than is should be "AAA" and so on. Maybe it is just one unlucky record? Experience live in-store music and artist signing events. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (other duties may be assigned): Maintains working knowledge of Federal, State, and Local environmental laws regulations. I bought one, a Blind Willie McTell. Simply Vinyl refuses to identify sources. I wanted to replace my Reprise pressing from the eighties, and tried like heck to find any information about the Rhino pressing I could, but no luck. For example, I have Juke Box Hits by Chuck Berry in WaxTime edition, and the same at Chess version 1984. Thanks for any advice you may offer, and I'd like to wish you all a safe and happy new year. These were all defective, with no top end above around 6kHz due to a screw-up somewhere along the line. I'm sure I'm not making this up, I have a distinct memory of buying a Stevie Wonder album, I think it was Innervisions, on the 'Music Lovers' label that sounded dreadful and if I was in any dohbt that the source used wasn't analogue, or in any way near the master, you could hear the CD that was used to cut the vinyl actually skipping. 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 . It was then that I noticed that the actual tracks on the individual albums weren't in the same order as on the cover or the original, and that there were actually some additional tracks, like one of those extended cd reissues. Hi Michael and the crew! Perhaps they don't have the dynamic range of a re-mastered LP from a major label, but I find the sound quite enjoyable on my vintage system. Quality of Miles Davis on Ermitage 180 gram Vinyl Discussion in ' Music Forums ' started by T68, Feb 16, 2019 . We will let you know before it is started. To improve sound quality, you might want to investigate replacing the supplied power supply with something of better quality. 8491 Sunset Blvd., #174 Data rates are typically higher than this during the recording, mixing, and mastering process. DOLCHESS 140g (pressed in the UK?) And even if they did, as a new collector, is it trial and error or is there a comprehensive list out there of the good and not so good producers? The conversion's resolution depends on the sample rate and bit depth. Then we figured it was a different take from the same session. Use the analogue tape. A lot of websites that sell new re-issues have little to no information about the pressing. This is not possible in France. Built-in safeguards against potential adverse events. Every time I played it (which of course wasn't often) I had to tell myself, "This is supposed to sound good. I have purchased more than one pop/rock WaxTime LP. Subject: RE: Contact Inquiry From HDtracks. I don't care! Kevin Gray cut the lacquers, and the vinyl was pressed at Quality Records. The source was some kind of digitally sourced, noise reduced flat sonic wash with all the life and dynamics sucked out. All are flat and muddy sounding. Still, you would be hard-pressed to trump a well-kept, well-cleaned original. We're proud to present the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series, a continuation of our acclaimed Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series which was launched in celebration of our 80th anniversary in 2019. Perhaps one day the reissue and "HD" music businesses will reach a level of public conscieness that similar ad hoc (voluntary, yet accurate and agreed-upon) standard vocabulary --- and its uses --- will come about. I just got a Carole King simply vinyl, cleaned with that $4,000 record cleaner Mikey talked about at T.H.E. I use a V15 VMR on a variety of turntables, and MoFi has been pretty noisy. Even with the good audiophile companies that Michael listed, one needs to check carefully. 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