Capitol had somereissues that were wretched (Heart - Dreamboat Annie). or maybe try one of them since the price is low. Yesterday I compared the Beatles White Album, original and 180 gram remastered and now I'm checking all my newly purchased remastered vinyl. Whatever your take on Robert Palmers interpretation, the sound on that single is awesome. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals Washington Investigators found lacking oversight they believe contributed to patient harm and death, and a pattern of "substandard" care in the surgery practice at Detroit's John D. Dingell VA Medical Center that leaders tried to conceal by altering external peer reviews and other data. Morton Feldman and Earl Brown, 3 Pierre Henry records and A couple John Cage Lp's. This property is not currently available for sale. The Doors, Box set from a few years ago, 192/24k digital. 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. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and My sources told me back then that Bob's people brought both ProTools files and an analog master tape to the mastering sessions for Modern Times and Bob went with the digital files. Sundazed's mistake was to not put its name on them! Doxy and WaxTimes can claim their junk is sourced from the original tapes too, after all, the CD they use to master comes from the original tape. They also seem to be in the habit of clearly noting transfer sources, involved engineers, studios and plants, which is always commendable. I do not have a crazy material, but I tend to perfect my system. Januar 2012 22:59 As a newb vinyl listener (largely influenced my MF articles in Stereophile, thanks!) And, do they have the samehigh compression applied? Exile on main street - 2010 reissue; 48/24. With these mono (false mono) too much clean and uniform. Discussion in 'Music Forums' started by T68, Feb 16, 2019. Once MFSL was able to license the whole shabang for the box setthey were granted access to vault tapes from EMI England. It really stinks to drop $50 on a brand new copy of "The Wall" only to be inundated by staticky noise. 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. 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. That makes no sense though because some people are still interested in music from Aaliyah's catalog (which is available on an extremely limited basis right now.). Hermitage. Mark Hammar is a Certied Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence through the American Society for Quality and has been a Quality Professional since 1994. Interesting reading, especially your opinions on Music On Vinyl. Why not put them to use and aide "the cause? This is a really good article, and hopefully, along with consumer pressure, it will lead to greater transparency from reissue labels. They are "simply" about vinyl. All of the Meters and Electric Prunes albums have the "manufactured by Rhino" sticker on the shrinkwrap. They use their own mastering engineers, so I imagine they aim for the best possible result. Hi Michael and everybody. How It Sounds on Vinyl The First & Only Vinyl SQ Database , Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service, Well mastered records sound better bigger, clearer, wider, more coherent and louder. Can you be more specific here? Chopin . Putting on the Fly,Electric Warrior after the 12" has people bopping around the room. In Southern Italy instead, in the territories of the . I should have known that there was something up when I saw a sealed copy of Romeo Must Die available at such a reasonable price. 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). "Old Ideas" soundsbetter. The conversion's resolution depends on the sample rate and bit depth. Finally we realized it was the identical take but sounding soooo wrong, it was difficult to identify. Digital, most likely 48/24, but Adam Ayant didn't want to say. Some benefits of recordkeeping are: Records are a simple, easy, and cost-effective management tool. Trust your ears. Recently a friend brought over a copy of Jeff Buckley's Grace album Simply Vinyl had reissued. 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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). The 68 records which did not allow for accurate identification (38 records with poor image quality, and 30 records without a picture), were removed. This goes way back to the original Mobile Fidelity LP's from the 70's and 80's. There never was a true mono master for many of these. Most of what I've read isn't positive. Even Kevin Gray don't want to tell me what is it really. The original UK presses walk the floor with them.
, Geoff called it "rubbish" and demanded a take it off the turntable! The "sourced from" designation pretty much means: 1) it is not cut from the original master. 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. There is a wealth of music being reissued on vinyl, but not all labels are equal. Also, I've come to the conclusion that so called "mastering" is simply a ploy to make the recording sound LOUDER. If the analog master and mastering was used than is should be "AAA" and so on. But there's no guaranty the LP was actually cut from the tape because Sundazed doesn't specify who cut and from what. Early History of the Ermitage family. 2) we don't know what we cut this LP from. Thanks for replying, jgannon! But to much confusion and poor information about the source. I have bought a lot of reissues years ago without the knowledge of digital to vinyl sacrilege that I now know about. These were all defective, with no top end above around 6kHz due to a screw-up somewhere along the line. After I cleaned out the mass, I used my Record Doctor V vacuum record cleaner with a small mix of distilled water and 99% isopropyl alcohol and sucked out the residue. I don't know of a comprehensive list, but. Short of a "AAA" type rating system, why not impart our will? Sheltered from strong northerly winds, the south-facing slopes of the Hermitage hill benefit from ideal sunshine, which has a great influence on the quality of these wines. This is not possible in France. Great article and followup posts. They are: Serge Gainsbourg In the unlikelyhood that Mobile Fidelity or Speakers Corner does their fancy reissue of these records I'll gladly fork out the money, but in the mean time if I want to hear Embryo, Lard Free, Mythos, Anaxis Quam, Holderlein and lot's more, I'll be listening to them on Wah Wah. As a double 45 and in print is even better! https://www.otaiweb.com/anarog/bluenotefront.jpg. How is the pressing quality? Anyone else have similar quality issues with new reissues from Wax Time Records? However, all the trouble began when I got to track 5 and it skipped twice (very bad, jumpy skips). I mean, how difficult is it to just take the original master tape and play it and digitize it with no EQ and no compression? Granados . The Londons? The CD is totally compressed while the LP has lots of dynamic range and better tonal balance. I know you want to maintain validation for your expenditure. Their stuff so far as I know is just CDs pressed to vinyl. So i buy my lps produce before the digital era, with warts and all. The album is badly in need of a proper scrubbing, and sounds as noisy as ever, but we still love giving it a spin. Affiliate programs and I just tried listening to my first "Wax Time Records" reissue of Albert King's 1962 debut album, "The Big Blues". Concord Music Group's Original Jazz Classics. A lot of websites that sell new re-issues have little to no information about the pressing. It's not 100% accurate or complete, but I haven't seen better elsewhere. Could some enterprising person create a table with columns for Reissue Label, Overall Reliability, and Comments? The fact is, these are obviously not from analog tape. This is unfortunate because, as you note, LPs cut from hi-rez digital can sound fantastic. Yup, "Old Ideas" on vinyl sounds remarkably better than the CD that came with it. But believe whatever you want. That's the way it works. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (other duties may be assigned): Maintains working knowledge of Federal, State, and Local environmental laws regulations. A few months back I paid about $40 in Norway for the Friday Music's 2008 reissue of America's self-titled album. 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. 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. Nirvana, Nevermind, Simply Vinyl. From: martin Leonard Cohens "Old Ideas" is digital, resolution unknown, but quite nice sounding. EHRs can help providers make efficient, effective decisions about patient care, through: Improved aggregation, analysis, and communication of patient information. Rolling Stones - 60's catalog reissues; 2.8Mhz, DSD. There are a lot of factors that go into whether an LP sounds good or not, and whether digital was involved is only one of them. One of the the Gil Scott-Heron LP's (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) has a "RCA Special Products" sticker on the back while the others don't, I'm happy to get his Flying Dutchman albums since the originals go for big money and are rare, ditto goes for Leon Thomas. Great sounding, good dynamics. Simply Vinyl refuses to identify sources. A couple of obviously legit reissues II recently bought are two outstanding Johnny Winter reissues, Second Winter and Johnny Winter And Live from Friday Music that are the best I have ever heard these recordings by a mile. Every time I played it (which of course wasn't often) I had to tell myself, "This is supposed to sound good. Third fact. I also picked up the Fat Possum reissue of The Slider, even though my copy is still in good shape. Actually some of them, especially those licensed from EMI, can sound very good and could very well be analog tape sourced, but the company refuses to identify sources. Ermitage @ermitagerecords 32.7K subscribers Subscribe Home Videos Live Playlists Community Channels About Created playlists Sort by 1 The Beggar's Opera - Il teatro di Lucio Dalla | Ermitage. this can result in this site earning a commission. Rolling Stones, "Stripped" double LP. We compared. The worst-sounding piece of 180gr vinyl in my collection. Best see if you can find a review before purchase, or whether you can give it a listen. So I will continue to purchase WaxTime records. It's one of the flattest and most perfectly centered records I've seen in my life. I have purchased more than one pop/rock WaxTime LP. At least I'm not as dissapointed when it is a dud. 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 . Hi Michael and the crew! but when I spend $25 or $50 on a 180 gram reissue, I want to know the source used and who did the cutting, plating and pressing. ________________________________________. Those Wayne Shorter titles, for example, were all recorded only in stereo, RVG did a simple fold down to produce a mono version. Only the record companies that own the rights to a recording have access to the original master tapes. Simply Vinyl is pure chance, you never know what you get. Wax Time is made in Spain, if I recall correctly. Same deal for Jazz Wax Records, too -- more public domain stuff that appears to be 'mastered' from CDs. Some of these tapes were originals, but some weren't. About the "manufactured by Rhino" you see on the back of the Scorpio reissues, those are legit and pressed by Rhino. 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. We have Received a Contact Inquiry From Martin 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. And while some pressing plants are clearly better than others, there is a general feeling that many well-meaning pressing plants are running flat-out to meet demand. Blues and Jazz Readers of Audiostream.com know the subject of "what's in a name?" Subject: RE: Contact Inquiry From HDtracks. EHRs Support Provider Decision Making. Would be a great idea for a reissue. And anyone can go in and update information. Ermitage is one of the most long-lasting brands of the independent classical discography. 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. We'll see, (You must log in or sign up to reply here. Talk about truth in advertising! The actually "lifted" the black and gold sticker Sundazed first created. I have no idea. I'm reading an old thread, but just to add my 2 cents: back in the late '90s I realized Mofi did not always use original masters when I bought Clapton's "461 Ocean Blvd", which contained a track from his subsequent album ("One In Every Crowd") right in the middle of the CD. Glad someone else noticed. I'd like to throw in my two cents: Avoid anything released by the Italian reissue label Get Back records. I do not know whether these rights are the slightest in Russia, Spain, or Italy, but I doubt it seriously. 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. I recommend Muddy Waters sings Big Bill Broonzy. See their past imports and exports, including shipments to Charlois Cooperage Usa in Cloverdale, California. All these records sound very good, so I'm very happy with this label. I commend Mobile Fidelity for their Silver Series for not trying to pass these releases as being sourced from the original master tapes. Scorpio and many other "to be avoided labels" are reissuing many hip rare underground records that the high end reissue labels aren't doing and will never do. This is not a case of semantics and again leaves one to wonder. 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". Pre-order limited edition new releases and exclusive record pressings. I emailed Music on Vinyl and this is the response I got. Of course, the CBS Mastersound LP of Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is a great example of this. My apologies if someone has already asked this. This is an exchange with HD Tracks I had a while ago. 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). Italian Archives online. Lack of provenance and of relying on familiar "Good Housekeeping"-style labels are pervasive. Resources available online on the Antenati Portal are mostly civil records, though parish records are included as well in some archives in central and Northern Italy, where civil records were introduced for a short time under the Napoleonic occupation (1806-1814). Same for "together through life". I think it speaks for itself. Thanks. Legend states that "Pink Moon" was the only Nick Drake album that still has the existing analog, 2-track master. I can recommend whole heartedly and with a clear conscience to other music lovers, please, stay away from 4MwB. Then there are all those cheap Blue Note reissues. Lionel. But the latter doesn't sound better IMO. 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. Can anyone chime in about the simply vinyl nick drake releases? Before Mobile Fidelity did The Beatles box in 1982, there had already been 3 Beatles releases. There is no CD mastering of any Nick Drake material that comes close to the "Pink Moon" remaster. All your speculation is cute. Please be more specific about your charge! Yes I should have mentioned them as "musts to avoid." Well if not ripped off most grossly inconvenienced due to sending stuff back in the post time and time again. Not a single one I've heard comes even close to the OG presses. 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. I would move Doxy Music / Doxy Records from the "generally avoid" to the "check before buy" category. All are flat and muddy sounding. Maybe the Hankersons (owners of Blackground) were out to make a quick buck? "Hey look kids it's in a deluxe box with all this cool extra stuff". Digital, most likely 48/24k. Price: 85. The opinions here are educated, thoughtful and easy to come by. Thanks! I'm reminded that not until sometime in the '70s did amplifiers advertise comparable power and distortion specs based on common criteria and that it didn't happen for car audio until the '90s. Even with the good audiophile companies that Michael listed, one needs to check carefully. Kevin Gray didn't convert the mono tapes to digital. MMT, White Album and Abbey Road. No-one seems to know. It would be worth putting an area on Analog Planet devoted to this. I need to review that I have it here. What do you say to that? Ermitage US Customs records for Ermitage, a supplier based in France. To this day I think it's my brightest-sounding LP. True story! It is unfortunate. I couldn't agree more re some labels simply putting out junk copied from digital. I have a general idea of what people on here think of this site (see below), but maybe, just maybe, this is a way for all of us to be a part of the solution. ). 4. who mastered it. Anyone can go in, open a new record, and put in the info. If you don't like the hi-fi, you won't like the sound. As for Electric Warrior if you can find a U.K. Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are a rich data source to measure and improve quality of care. Sometimes we get slightly fudged information. I picked up Dylan's 'No Mercy'. Bob Dylan Bootleg Series 8, Tell tale signs; 44.1/16k digital. Electronic medical records and quality improvement Neurosurg Clin N Am. If it's a CD, which is probably is, then it's an excellent sounding CD. The article, and subsequent comments have been enlightening, but, What about the Supercuts vinyls (EU) of H-Q Records.? Data rates are typically higher than this during the recording, mixing, and mastering process. I'm going by mostlymemory here since I've long parted with mine. I've lost count I must say. The past 10 years, as vinyl picked up popularity again, it seemed like an onslaught of companies offering "audiophile 180G" vinyl. I'm getting into this conversation pretty late it looks like but I've gotten some really great sonding Lp's on Doxy. This program brought electronic health records to well over 80% of ambulatory physicians and virtually every hospital in the United States. The question is, is there an easy way to identify if the vinyl is reproduced from original tapes or was there an engineer somewhere remastering them to suit his own ears? I had the original European vinyl. The UHQR Pepper ain't in that same league at all. The compression may be an aesthetic choice, or may be done so to accommodate use on portable devices. 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. The vinyl is noisy and Dylan's voice is all over the place. I haven't listened to it yet but this is a lesson learned. I have a Music on Vinyl version of Al Di Meola's LP, the original 1970s LP, as well as a CD rip. 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. Thanks for that information. Not very, I'd say. When I first played it, it sounded so bad I thought there was something wrong with my system. And, I still own the first LP my family ever owned - Neil Diamond's Moods from 1972, which my mom bought on impulse as we were returning home from school and she saw the album in a record store window. The Chess edition is really weird, while the WaxTime edition sounds very natural. Miller Industries is seeking to fill the position of Quality & Regulatory Assurance Engineer at our Hermitage, PA facility. Take a look. As this is the reason why someone with the original LPs would buy these. But still other times you get nothing, yet you're asked to plunk down big bucks for these reissues. A lot of The Beatles 1/2 speeds were NOT done with originalEMI master tapes. I am not impressed with the quality controls in the press/release process at Wax Time, a record company out of Spain. Rolling Stones - 70s and 80s; 48/24K; compressed. Then the labels mentioned above, steer clear of anything from Doxy, it is virtually guaranteed to be 44.1/16. Accurate and complete medical record documentation is essential in any healthcare setting. Juliette Greco The Chess Masters reissue, it was done all analog by Steve Hoffman. ermitage records quality. I think Doxy is an Italian label. I was able to push it out of the two adjacent groves easily. 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, Just to be sure, I compared it to the mp3 version on Spotify, which blows it out of the water in EVERY respect. I purchased this album with that information in mind. Consider The OXFAM Online Record Store, Platter World in Garfield, NJ Closing End of December, 2014, Record Score of the Day at The Princeton Record Exchange. ", Let the world know what you think about a record: Write a Review on Discogs! I see their stuff sold here in real, reputable record stores like Jecklin and other places. Say; 1. 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. 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. I would expect it to be GOUGED for that many crackles. Again, this is 1960s jazz material that is in the public domain in the EU. It's a Universal remaster. by | May 25, 2022 | why does kelly wearstler wear a brace | diy nacho cheese dispenser | May 25, 2022 | why does kelly wearstler wear a brace | diy nacho cheese dispenser This work is written by US Government employees and is in the public domain in the US. Not particularly good . I thought it was cute that Rhino used the wrong labels on the Meters and Dr. John LP's so people don't pass them off as originals (like that dealer in New Orleans) by using the 2-color Reprise W7 label for the Meters and the old 50's Atco label with the harp for Dr. John. We later went used record shopping in Athens and I found an original Pablo Sarah Vaughn for a few bucks in near mint condition. And I'm glad you are not "digiphobic" and call them as they sound. I agree with you there! 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. The resteither duplicates or some other explanation. I think the guy "robert" is full of it, and doesn't know anything about this series. The original was much better. Built-in safeguards against potential adverse events. Not an audiophile quality release, but it may be a good addition to a collection just as a document. I've never heard a 1st pressing, only CD masters until this point, so I can only compare what I have heard. 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. This is a defect known as stitching - a mechanical defect, which is both visual and audible. Anyone else unfortunate enough to grab that same LP? I suspect it was either a bad sounding tape supplied by Decca (though why?) The Leonard Cohen live stuff recently released on vinyl is a 48/24k recording upsampled to 96/24k. So, like probably many people I thought buying 180 or 200 gram remastered vinyl was a good thing. Also, how about somebody starts a company to release 00's music that is remastered without the massive compression (provided it's not squashed for posterity in the mixing stage already) -- I know Arcade Fire and The National have put out some great releases, but just imagine how awesome that stuff would be if MoFi remastered it with 50% more dynamic range. The reissues sound nice but the original recordings weren't audiophile material. I built a low budget LP playback system (below) a few years ago and, frankly, the sound is uninspiring. Ie., fully open. Most record labels don't seem keen on the idea of any kind of transparency. How many generations down they were is open to debate but MMT was definitely 4th generation. The source was some kind of digitally sourced, noise reduced flat sonic wash with all the life and dynamics sucked out. Related to quality record. Are the HD Tracks files really Hi Rez? eck, any version of an album is "sourced" at some point from the master, regardless of how many copies, remixes of digitizations have occcured. Another informative article by Mikey and terrific feedback from the many knowledgeable readers; most of whom, I imagine are far more knowledgeable than myself, which is why I am throwing my question out to the field. Prokofiev . This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Ermitage research. 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. 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). Tell ya what though, the pressings I've been happiest with have come from Quality Records. 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). It sounds nothing at all like an analog original. He heard the HF boost and was outraged. It was my first MFSL and nearly my last. Demand for new vinyl records outstripping supply is a common theme when the topic of quality control rears its ugly head. ERMITAGE Record Number: ERM 160-2 UPC: 8014394101603 Country: ITALY D/A Code: Analog CD Beethoven, Symphony #5 + Rehearsal. https://www.discogs.com/Santana-Abraxas/release/16479144, I just read through this whole thread and found it very interesting.