Steely Dan UHQR


There is a great interview with audio engineer Bernie Grundman on the new UHQR album "Aja". At $150 it better be amazing. He talks about how they had to modify the sound of albums in the past so they would play on crappy turntables and how this album, at 45rpm, is designed for the best turntables and cartridges. He also speaks about how the "Dan" gang wanted to use their own speakers to listen to the master and not Bernie's. (Wish he had called out the speakers) But let me ask you this, can a sound engineer with 80 year old ears (born 16 December 1943), have the hearing to engineering a UHQR album to audiophile standards......I know my hearing is shot due to what I did in my 20's with Rock n Roll sound levels....At 70, no way could my ears be trusted for such a task.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLFTm6jMrY

rbertalotto

Here is a VERY interesting review of this Aja release and a few digital downloads if you would like to play along

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrpTT7Yo6dI

Goodgrief...

Aja again?!

Everyone just needs to pony up, get a proper table/ phonostage and spend $3 bucks on a AB 1006 stamper at Goodwill.

CBT,CTE,PL ...Katy Lied and Royal Scam.

There is more to SD than Aja and...Gaucho.

 

The point of this post is that those $1 pressings were done with compromise to audio quality so they would play on a cheap turntable.

that is so delusional... 

AB 1006 stamper is sounding  PERFECT on both pricey and cheap equipment. The dynamic range I bet can even be larger than UHQR version. Paying $150 for pop music record released in tens of millions copies is definitely gullible.