@slaw "The siblance on "s"s, seems more pronounced/noticeable." I always thought that DSD kind of softens the upper frequencies, not make them more pronounced.
Thoughts on the new pressing of "Bookends" lp from MFSL
Listening to it now. Has greater extension but will have to directly compare to a one of my early copies to understand how the digital step has or hasn’t affected the SQ in any meaningful way. The siblance on "s"s, seems more pronounced/noticeable.
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@vitussl101 , good to know. |
I balk at paying $125 to Mobile Fidelity for their One-Step releases, considering they are cutting their lacquers from digital files (though I do own one, Carole King’s Tapestry. ALL other versions are really bad, and I must have the music contained in the album). Their $60 LP’s are that price because the discs are made using their "Supervinyl". I have a number of MoFi’s that were cut from analogue "master" tapes (undoubtedly copies made from the actual master, known in the biz as Production Masters), made of their standard (and excellent) vinyl formulation, which cost only $35-$40. There are plenty of audiophile-grade LP’s priced at around $40 being released by the likes of Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner, Intervention Records, Light In The Attic, Blue Note (their Classic line for under $30), VMP, Cohearent Records (mastering engineer Kevin Gray’s own label), Craft Recordings, even good ol’ Rhino Records (Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris releases very recently). Some reissues are not just remastered and pressed on high quality vinyl, but contain new editorial content, often from the artist. I buy some reissues of titles that I already have original pressings of, for carious reasons. $40 for a high quality reissue may actually be a better value than an original was at the time of it’s initial release (inflation accounted for). Everyone is free to buy what they want. Faulting others for buying what you don’t want to? Why?
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