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Mercury Living Presence

I have a few Mercury Living Presence label CDs. I've found I have an affinity for what I've heard on this label in terms of recording quality, in particular for the vintage of the original recordings. I was listening to the MLP recording of The Nutcracker recently and was semi blown away.

Does anyone else share my affinity for these recordings? Are they all equally well recorded? Which are the best?

What about the original vinyl recordings, which I have not heard. Are these any good?
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Nice.  Love your setup. You must be proud!   Thanks for resurrecting old thread!  
 

 

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Mercury and Everest are similar in the way they both recorded with 35mm tape. Mercury and Everest also share the distinction of audiophile recordings pressed on cheap vinyl. My advice would be to purchase remastered cd’s or remastered and repressed vinyl. Now there may be a difference where it pertains to the original early mono pressings. However, I’ve had trouble finding original mono pressings that  aren’t so chewed up that they’re unplayable. 

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