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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15135 on: July 29, 2022, 04:58:52 PM »
Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Song Book



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15136 on: July 29, 2022, 07:14:31 PM »
Herb Alpert: Whipped Cream and Other Delights



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15137 on: July 29, 2022, 08:00:46 PM »
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15138 on: July 29, 2022, 08:21:07 PM »
Art Lande: While She Sleeps



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15139 on: July 29, 2022, 08:22:07 PM »
Herb Alpert: Whipped Cream and Other Delights



Herb Alpert Presents 180g LP - 50th Anniversary Edition

Remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes.

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Shame on the guys at MoFi and Music Direct  :roll:
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15140 on: July 29, 2022, 09:58:13 PM »
Herb Alpert: Whipped Cream and Other Delights



Herb Alpert Presents 180g LP - 50th Anniversary Edition

Remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes.

(Take that Mobile Fidelity!)

Shame on the guys at MoFi and Music Direct  :roll:
Back during my analog days I preferred Nautilus pressings, Shaded Dogs and MFSL half-speed master pressings.  When MFSL was resurrected from bankruptcy I didn't think they were nearly as good as before. 

Now, we know why.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15141 on: July 29, 2022, 10:59:07 PM »
Dave in reality MFSL never emerged from bankruptcy. (The reason they shut down sadly had nothing to do with them, their distributor went bankrupt and the MFSL inventory they held was siezed as part of that incident and the loss of all that inventory was too much of a financial shock for a small record company to handle.) After they closed their doors Jim Davis of Music Direct came along in 2001 and purchased the MoFi name and intellectual property (and I would assume any still valid licensing agreements). But what was now the reborn MoFi was not the original company coming out of bankruptcy, but rather a whole new company operating under the same name, not unlike when Japanese companies were selling electronics branded as Marantz and Fisher.

Now all that said, the "new MoFi" has put out some very nice sounding records over the years and it is worth noting  that any of the now controversial mastering from digital copies of the master tape did not (allegedly) start happening until many years after the new management team took over. It was not a going in strategy of the new team but rather an idea that evolved over time.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15142 on: July 30, 2022, 01:50:30 PM »
Mark Knopfler: Tracker Tour 2015



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15143 on: July 30, 2022, 01:58:05 PM »
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick



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2012 Steven Wilson Remix.

I just saw that they are coming out with a half speed mastered version of this mix for the 50th anniversary of this album.

Personally, I think this one sounds great, so I have no inclination to buy yet another copy of this album. But if you don't have the remix it might be worth waiting for the 1/2 speed.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15144 on: July 30, 2022, 02:01:59 PM »
Niel Young: Live at Massey Hall 1971



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15145 on: July 30, 2022, 07:33:06 PM »
Mark Knopfler: Tracker Tour 2015



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Live in Zurich 1/6/2015
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15146 on: July 30, 2022, 07:37:09 PM »
Otis Redding: The Dock of the Bay



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15147 on: July 30, 2022, 09:03:59 PM »
Sax Sax Sax



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15148 on: July 31, 2022, 02:14:51 PM »
Roger Waters: Au Quebec!



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #15149 on: July 31, 2022, 03:52:48 PM »
"Sketches of Spain" on the disgraced MFSL label.  Gotta say, it did sound a bit shrill in a few passages.  I turned it down.  :(

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