Classic Records' version of Tapestry was fantastic. . The Doors, Box set from a few years ago, 192/24k digital. Anyone have any experince with the following: Ages ago I bought around 25 of them since the originals are super rare in playable condition (Meters, JB, Electric Prunes, Leon Thomas, Dr. John, Gil Scott-Heron). This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Ermitage research. Heard 24/96 rips of the UHQR Pepper on three different high quality systems and found it enjoyable. Not one single click or pop. To this day I think it's my brightest-sounding LP. A look a the photos of the tape boxes that appered in the box set were very revealing. Of course they have their own set of problems. October 23, 2020. Rhino is a division of Warner Brothers and if you see Rhino, chances are sources are good, even if the label is Scorpio. These were all defective, with no top end above around 6kHz due to a screw-up somewhere along the line. Not a single one I've heard comes even close to the OG presses. Patricia Barbers "Caf Blue" is a 44.1/16k recording, but the LP is very listenable. Leonard Cohens"10 new songs" also digital. horrible." I'm truly happy with it. Maintains working knowledge of quality . Their website states this: As for our sources; We are provided with the best possible (analogue) masters available. How do these rate? Seems to be known for its superiority over other, questionable reissues. Back then I bought the MFSL Magical Mystery Tour, unfortunately. There never was a true mono master for many of these. The resteither duplicates or some other explanation. I emailed Music on Vinyl and this is the response I got. 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 jacket and the sleeve are high quality, and the vinyl looked really nice when I inspected it under normal lighting. In Southern Italy instead, in the territories of the . Try finding an original copy of Gris Gris. the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. Maybe it is just one unlucky record? I also picked up the Fat Possum reissue of The Slider, even though my copy is still in good shape. 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. A lot of websites that sell new re-issues have little to no information about the pressing. There is amazing variation,the "Exile" reissue sounds like a shrill, lifeless compressed mess. Taxonomic accuracy was generally high (Table 3). Awful! I'm thinking of getting this LP, since it seems to be the only release of the original soundtrack for "Psycho" on vinyl (I compared it to the movie and it's definitely not a re-recording). The packaging is replicated to the finest detail, they knew what they are doing. Yup, "Old Ideas" on vinyl sounds remarkably better than the CD that came with it. All of the Meters and Electric Prunes albums have the "manufactured by Rhino" sticker on the shrinkwrap. I also doubt that they share them or even give them on loan to anyone. Fly Records (HiFly 6) pressing mastered by George "Porky" Peckham, you will s..t yourself! Your descriptions of those releases above is SPOT ON, IMO. Surely pulling random copies and checking for problems is something that should be done by the pressing plant in the production cycle? Marche Hongroise, Schumann . One concern I have is that some vinyl enthusiasts will automatically reject any reissue that has been "contaminated" by digital in any way whatsoever, which might be part of the reason labels are sometimes not forthcoming with information. 2) we don't know what we cut this LP from. 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. I have purchased more than one pop/rock WaxTime LP. "Old Ideas" soundsbetter. Miller Industries is seeking to fill the position of Quality & Regulatory Assurance Engineer at our Hermitage, PA facility. For $13 a piece at your local Half Price Books, you could do a lot worse, especially since many titles in the WaxTime catalog are totally unavailable except as rare scratchy originals that go for $100 a piece. Epub . Every time I played it (which of course wasn't often) I had to tell myself, "This is supposed to sound good. One of their LPs I bought had a blob of glue in the middle of side one, and this was a $40 Comus LP. Ermitage US Customs records for Ermitage, a supplier based in France. Make it updatable by anyone. Peppersucked too. I am seek advice about Venus Records from Japan. Hi! Great sounding record!! Propel Administrators can customize the fields that are displayed on different types of Quality records. Heaven only knows how they got here and in the surprisingly good sound quality. The opinions here are educated, thoughtful and easy to come by. Something is definitely wrong with that Hyper Magnum Sound Direct Mix Stereo. I think Doxy is an Italian label. RHINO 180g Jazz - seems they pressed mainly ATLANTIC stuff. The only way to teach these companies that won't clearly state the source of a recording is to not buy their records. http://disc.gs/Review. Could be I get more Optimal product than any other but I have had a fair number of pressings with one off faults. 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 source was some kind of digitally sourced, noise reduced flat sonic wash with all the life and dynamics sucked out. Album title, 2. Again, this is 1960s jazz material that is in the public domain in the EU. I remember when MFSL reissued several John Lennon LP's about 10 years ago. I don't care! 3,4 To capture and leverage EHR content, the challenges relate to variability in the . Digital, most likely 48/24k. Also, I've come to the conclusion that so called "mastering" is simply a ploy to make the recording sound LOUDER. It's my opinion, it doesn't mean I m right. We compared. The album is badly in need of a proper scrubbing, and sounds as noisy as ever, but we still love giving it a spin. I was at a show in Scandinavia and someone was playing a Vinyl Lovers Rod Stewart LP. Demand for new vinyl records outstripping supply is a common theme when the topic of quality control rears its ugly head. The article, and subsequent comments have been enlightening, but, What about the Supercuts vinyls (EU) of H-Q Records.? One of the grand promises of health care digitization through the adoption of EHRs was better quality reporting and a path to improving day-to-day clinical outcomes by reinforcing best practices and modifying poor-quality care. The quality on these releases has been steadily improving over the last few years. Widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) in the United States is transforming the practice of medicine from a paper-based cottage industry into an integrated health care delivery system. I was able to push it out of the two adjacent groves easily. But to much confusion and poor information about the source. And anyone can go in and update information. Not very, I'd say. I know that since there was no "Magical Mystery Tour" LP for the U.K. (it was a double EP containing only side one of the American LP) and that side two of the Mo-Fi LP was the same "horrid electronically reprocessed for stereo" used by Capitol, that that record was sourced from Capitol, but what others used "3rd and 4th generation copies"?
. I don't know of a comprehensive list, but. Short of a "AAA" type rating system, why not impart our will? The Wah Wah label from Spain has reissued tons of obscure 70s records from France and Germany that I am glad I am able to own in the vinyl format, regardless of the source. 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. I do not know whether these rights are the slightest in Russia, Spain, or Italy, but I doubt it seriously. doi: 10.1016/j.nec.2014.11.018. For example, I have Juke Box Hits by Chuck Berry in WaxTime edition, and the same at Chess version 1984. They are: Serge Gainsbourg But it is so long that it has become difficult to mine for relevant information. 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? In my opinion, 10 new songs suffered a bit from some wierd Pro-tools sounding stuff. The UHQR Pepper ain't in that same league at all. Or just 44.1/24 masquerading as 88/24? I kept listening in hopes of adjusting my ear, but could not have avoided that eerie feeling that they tortured music to death before they buried in the vinyl. The albums were subsequently re-cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, this time using the analog master tapes, and they sound fantastic. Quality of Miles Davis on Ermitage 180 gram Vinyl Discussion in ' Music Forums ' started by T68, Feb 16, 2019 . Great track selection, pretty questionable sound from various sources. Ermitage un marchio ben noto a tutti gli amanti della musica e del cinema storico ed uno dei marchi pi longevi della discografia classica indipendente. When I played the record back, it played beautifully with no more skips. I'd take the DSD sourced vinyl over those any day as they are way closer to the masters (unboxed Decca UK pressings are a different matter, most of those sound great if you can find them in good condition). I've heard (more expensive) CD playback systems (as well as some five-figure LP systems) that are absolutely engaging, but since I don't collect CDs and I don't have three to five times the $2,000 I invested in my system to throw at one of those, I need to find some "fix" for my existing system. 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. I use a V15 VMR on a variety of turntables, and MoFi has been pretty noisy. So this means I concentrate nearly all my spending on mint used LPs which is sort of a shame for the record companies and artists, I'd like to buy new vinyl but it's like a 50/50 proposition that it will be mastered and cut correctly unless, of'course, I source it from MoFi or the others Mickey mentions. 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. Blues and Jazz Just listen to 'Cool Struttin' and compare to any analog sourced version, and all the hallmarks of a digital source are there. From: Support [mailto:contact@hdtracks.com] 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 emailed Friday Music about their reissue of Boston's debut LP, which their literature says is "Masteredfrom the original Epic Records tapes" but doesn't specifically say "analog." Plus they're titles that most labels wouldn't dare put out.
, Geoff called it "rubbish" and demanded a take it off the turntable! There are some excellent vinyl reissue labels that use original anaolg sources and produce very good lps such as Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner Records, RhinOvinyl, Classic Records, Impulse!, Sundazed, etc. 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. Watch out when the Beatles, Stones and others get into the public domain here. As a double 45 and in print is even better! The terroir of wines in Ermitage and Hermitage Hermitage Hill is one of the few places in the world to benefit from the 4 geological eras that have taken place over time. Although none of that describes sound quality it's still a help on some level knowing what's what. - My pressing of "Pink Moon" does not appear to have been manufactured by Simply Vinyl. Related to quality record. A total of 18 studies analyzed the effect of an EMR on the quality of health care (78%), 16 the effect on the efficiency of health care (70%). The Leonard Cohen live stuff recently released on vinyl is a 48/24k recording upsampled to 96/24k. This is not a case of semantics and again leaves one to wonder. The conversion's resolution depends on the sample rate and bit depth. Keywords: health care costs, unannounced standardized patients, medical ethics; medical records; quality of health care. Then we figured it was a different take from the same session. The audio has noticeable background noise, but it's definitely because of the source and not from the record itself. The Mo-Fi UHQR of Sgt. To: martin I agree with you there! Put on album title, record label or company, and what the sources were for the record. None of this is to excuse those reissue labels that have no interest in sound quality and simply cut LPs from commercially available CD sources. I've heard better MP3s than some of their presses. I also have very good 70's editions of some Chuck Berry (One Dozen Berrys and Berry is on top) that sound more like the WaxTime edition than the 80's Chess Edition. 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. 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. And if a $60 LP from a major label is remastered from the best original sources, but comes out with a lot of crackling well, I would RATHER get some $13 LPs possibly cut from dubious sources but with absolutely no surface noise. Granados . 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. Heard a $12 copy of Pete La Roca's Basra in one shop on a basic system that sounded pretty flat, and a few months later I was in a store where they were spinning the 1995 reissue, and it sounded great. Anyone who can give information about these reissue who help a lot of people who spend a lot of money to get them.Thanks for the help. 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". Rolling Stones - 60's catalog reissues; 2.8Mhz, DSD. 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. At least I'm not as dissapointed when it is a dud. I couldn't agree more re some labels simply putting out junk copied from digital. The German Horzu pressing of Magical Mystery Tour is of course incredible compared to all the rest. Apparently no one at Simply Vinyl pays much attention to sound. I cannot quiet put my finger on it. 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. A Sarah Vaughn fan, he played me a "greatest hits" album from ZYX that had been culled from Sarah's later Pablo catalog. Try finding a really good sounding Stones record on the London label. I know you want to maintain validation for your expenditure. The Netherlands based Music on Vinyl label issues some albums cut from analog sources but mostly from high resolution files sourced from masters that they obtain directly from the labels (at least based on my experience). Born in the mid-eighties with the publication of some vinyl records by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, he later released CDs of the world's leading opera, symphonic and chamber artists.
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