Recommended vinyl.

Posted by: Peres da Silva on 07 December 2008

Hi dear Naimists and vinyl lovers

For me the best vinyl that you can buy are the music matters blue note reissues.

They have the perfect package.

Great care has been taken in choosing the cardboard stock and thick lamination for the jackets.

They are gatefold (to accommodate the two 45RPM 12'' records).

All releases come with great blue note Francis Wolff unissued session photos inside (with great quality and definition).

Simply the best vinyl production that I ever saw in my life.

They are 45RPM (two 180g records for $50).

Great sound from the original stereo master tapes and the mastering skills of Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman at Acoustech Mastering pressed at RTI (same place analogue productions pressings).

The persons of this great project are RON RAMBACH, JOE HARLEY, STEVE HOFFMAN, KEVIN GRAY, MICHAEL CUSCUNA and PATRICK ROQUES.

These will be really the definitive Best Blue Note reissues you will ever see...

The first 12 titles already came out, some of them are already out of print.

But will be released a total of 64 titles (2 a month). you can still make a direct subscription to the remaining titles on the music matters site (like I did) http://www.musicmattersjazz.com
and you will get the same low serial number for all the titles (they will charge your visa only whenever they will send you 2 records).

They make a first serial numbered limited edition pressing, and then another second pressing not numbered but also a very limited edition, and then its out of print forever.

This will be for sure the most expensive vinyl on the second hand market in the near future, if you don't like any of these records don't worry, sell it later on Ebay and it will pay the others ;-)

Well that's all from me now, I will talk about other great vinyl productions another time.

Remember No Naim no Music

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Julian H

Is this an advert?

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

quote:
Originally posted by Julian H:
Is this an advert?

Almost

but I garantee you that I don't have nothing to do with them, unless that I will pay them every title :P

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Lontano

Peres,

Nice first post and welcome.

I agree with you on the Music Matters releases and I have been subscribing to the series. I have all of the releases released so far and they are quite frankly works of art. The covers and the weighty vinyl are the best I have ever seen.

Unfortunately they are getting too expensive for me to continue to buy every one of them with the current exchange rate, freight and the regular customs charges I get hit for it works out at about £65 per album. I was also getting the Analogue Productions Blue Note series as well so that was up to 4 releases per month at that price so I have cancelled both subscriptions. I will therefore buy select releases going forward.

Adrian

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

quote:
Originally posted by Lontano:
Peres,
Nice first post and welcome.

Adrian

Thank you very mutch Adrian

sorry about your cancelations due to price...

I also like the Analogue Productions 45RPM Blue Note reissues, the records have the same quality but unfortunately the jackets don't, soo I will only buy a few selected titles from these ones.

I also like the classic records 200g 45RPM Blue Note reissues (Blue Train and Something else), with the 4 single sided pressings (4 records for just $50) and with the new vinyl formula called clarity vinyl that is suposed to last longer without geting magnetized, less static and sound mask distortion. Anyway once again the jackets are not the same as Music Matters, but these classic records are also stunning and still available (but not for long).

The Dave Brubeck "Time Out" 200g 45RPM classic records release had also an incredible sound, but it's out of print now.

The Hugh Masekela "Hope" 180g 45RPM analogue productions release is also incredible in terms of sound and is still available today.

I also like the Mobile Fidelity records, I have the new release of the Santana "Abraxas" (33RPM) and the sound is also great and still available today.

Peres

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Lontano

Peres,

I will still buy some of the releases on MM and AP Blue Note but will be more selective. But committing to 79 albums (64MM & 25AP) at that price is too much.

I have bought quite a few other Analogue Production 45RPM releases - many of the Bill Evans and other artists on Fantasy and also quite a few of the MOFI's including the Santana you mention.

Look forward to hearing what else you recommend!

Cheers

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

quote:
Originally posted by Lontano:
Peres,

I will still buy some of the releases on MM and AP Blue Note but will be more selective. But committing to 79 albums (64MM & 25AP) at that price is too much.

I have bought quite a few other Analogue Production 45RPM releases - many of the Bill Evans and other artists on Fantasy and also quite a few of the MOFI's including the Santana you mention.

Look forward to hearing what else you recommend!

Cheers

89 not 79 hehehehehehee

But you're right, that's too mutch blue notes to pay for, unfortunatelly you're damn rigth about that

I also got the first 5 releases from AP, they are also very good, but the cover art sucks in comparison to MM ones, soo now I am very selective with the AP Blue Notes.

The AP 45 Blue Note Art Blakey "moanin" should also be a good bet, because it's a great record, I will not buy this one only because I already have a good audiophile pressing.

But the MM I will try to get them all, because not only the records are great but the cover art is really amazing as you know.

The AP 45 Ry Cooder "Meeting by the River" is also a great record that I have.

I would love to hear your recommendations about the other AP 45's that you have (Fantasy/Prestige and PABLO), tell me about what you have and what you think is a must ?

Anyway...records are also a question of personal taste...

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Lontano

quote:
Originally posted by Peres da Silva:
89 not 79 hehehehehehee

Whoops...and to think I am a CFO...!!! Sunday afternoon brain seizure.

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

quote:
Originally posted by munch:
Anything on 200g vinyl from the Womad shop.
All the Peter Gabriel vinyl.

where's the womad shop ???

I just remembered another great pressing, its Marvin Gaye "WHAT'S GOING ON" from UNIVERSAL JAPAN, 200gm, 33RPM, the sound is excellent and it also comes with a great cover art package.

"LET'S GET IT ON" also from Marvin Gaye is also coming on 33RPM on Mobile Fidelity but take it easy

is only planned for next April.

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Julian H

quote:
Almost

but I garantee you that I don't have nothing to do with them, unless that I will pay them every title :P

Sorry, but as a first post, it did look extremely like one!

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

quote:
Originally posted by Julian H:
quote:
Almost

but I garantee you that I don't have nothing to do with them, unless that I will pay them every title :P

Sorry, but as a first post, it did look extremely like one!

yes I understand, I must admit you're right about that, but I am just a vinyl lover that wanted to praise what deserves to be praised

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

I just remembered another great sounding record that you can buy now.

Is simply the best record to put on the turntable if you have a first time date with a beautiful woman and you have the chance to take her into your home after the dinner

Its great music, great sound, I am talking about the romantic swing of Ben Webster at his best.

"ATMOSPHERE FOR LOVERS AND THIEVES" from PURE PLEASURE (this is the name of the brand don't think other things ok hehehehehe), it's 33RPM and 180gm, the cover art is nothing special but the record and the sound are, and it's not too mutch expensive (the record not the dinner).

Peres

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Guido Fawkes

quote:
Is simply the best record to put on the turntable if you have a first time date with a beautiful woman and you have the chance to take her into your home after the dinner

I think Mrs R might throw the LP12 at me if I did that

Probe Plus is my favourite label BTW.

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
quote:
Is simply the best record to put on the turntable if you have a first time date with a beautiful woman and you have the chance to take her into your home after the dinner
I think Mrs R might throw the LP12 at me if I did that

Probe Plus is my favourite label BTW.

Perhaps you can recommend us some records

Posted on: 07 December 2008 by Guido Fawkes

Hi Peres

Sorry to say Probe Plus is not an audiophile label by any means - it has one outstanding group then accounts for more than 90% of all it sales - they are half man half biscuit - my favourite group (an admission that may surprise some folk used to my postings). However, HMHB are quintessentially English and it is their lyrical content that makes them so appealing to me; however, without knowing the characters of whom they sing, it may not have the same impact.

I have very few audiophile recordings because very few of my favourite artists are given such treatment. I would like to hear the Steve Hoffman pressing of the Kinks Arthur The Decline and Fall of the British Empire - I have this work on CD, vinyl elpee and cassette and every time there is unbearable distortion on Shangri-La - so whenever I play this gem, I find I'm not listening to the songs, but waiting for that wretched distortion.

I'd also love a decent version of Mary Chapin Carpenter's The Calling - as I see no need for it to be recorded so loud with the dynamics obliterated.

I do have a couple of audiophile gems. A hi-fi test record that has the most incredible version of 10CCs Don't Hang Up - it is just so perfectly recorded. So I appreciate the quality of such things.

ATB Rotf

Posted on: 08 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

Another thing that I wanted to talk about is the Led Zeppelin 200gm 33RPM reisues of classic records.
They are already out of print, but are still available at astronomic prices in EBay.

Well, my advice is: don't buy them.

I have the first 6 led zeppelin records of this releases and the sound doesn't match very well with the zeppelin music, it's too mutch hi-fi like, is better for you if you buy some old UK pressings in EBay at mutch lower prices.

Does anyone have the Creedence Clearwater Revival 45RPM's of analogue productions ? I am considering to try one of them, but I am curious to know if anybody of you have any of them and how do you think about them ?

Another great record is the Johny Adams 33RPM 180gm record of analogue productions that they are now selling at just $15, is a great sounding record, buy it if you can.

That's all for now,
Peres

Posted on: 08 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

quote:
Originally posted by munch:
You have not been on here that long.
If you do a search in find you will see most on here thought the Lead Zepp remasters that came out this year were shite on cd and being on vinyl wont make them much better IMO and a few others.
I know one member that loves the Mothership vinyl and i know another member that has a copy still in its wrap.
Thank god for the Bedini.
I would not be able to listen to the Mothership or the Song Remains The Same CDs if it was not for the Bedini.
Munch

I was considering to buy the song remains the same on vinyl (the 4 LP box), it comes with some previously unreleased tracks, but now I think it will be better to keep my old pressing because I am very suspicious about the sound of this vinyl release.

Now talking again about good recommendations there's some mosaic LP box sets (33RPM 180gm) that some times apears on EBay, they are expensive but also excellent, specially the Plugged Nickel Miles Davis complete set. I also have the complete Miles Davis with John Coltrane Columbia Recordings set and the Miles Davis Blackhawk set, they are soo good, now theres some US folks selling them in EBay with a low start bid, but don't expect to buy them for less than $250 eatch (but you can try, now that the economy is bad perhaps you'll have better luck than I had).

Posted on: 08 December 2008 by Huwge

quote:
Originally posted by munch:

I still play my original 70s Song remains the same.
Sounds great.

Seconded and I remember my Mum's disbelief when I emptied the piggy bank for this one!

Posted on: 09 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

[/QUOTE]Most of the Miles Davis 180g remasters can be had from HMV for around £5.00 each including p&p and around the same price on Amazon.All new vinyl.
Dont bother with ebay.
[/QUOTE]

Hi Munch, most of them are £15 not £5

I know, I also have many of that cheap 180gm Miles columbia reissues, they are 180gm but the sound is not very good and the mastering was not from the original master tapes.

Don't mix that cheap columbia 180gm reissues with the Mosaic boxes, they are both 180gm but the sound is night and day distance.

The Mosaic records were made from the original master tapes, with top audiophile gear, top mastering engineers, really top audiophile productions.

The cheap columbia reissues are good only to fill gaps in the collection.

Anyway the complete plugged nickel mosaic box set is not available in vinyl from anywhere else but the out of print Mosaic box.

Since all the mosaic vinyl boxes are out of print, I only mentioned EBay because it's perhaps the best place to find them.

The Mosaic box sets are numbered (by hand) and were made in very limited quantities 3000 or 5000 depending of the box, the quality of the pressings are very high.

Posted on: 09 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

Nobody recommends anything, common naimists what hapenning ?

I don't like very mutch the speakers corner pressings (the sound seems a litle digital for me), but today I loved to listen to Jimmy smith "The Cat", what a great record.

And today I also loved to listen to my japanese pressing of Pink Floyd "The Wall", mutch better than UK original pressings, try to get a japanese pressing of these, it sounds soo good...

I also have many Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records and for me the better ones are: B.B.King Lucille, Muddy Waters Folk Singer, Stan Getz & João Gilberto, Dave Brubeck "Were all Together for the first time", Joe Cocker "Shefield Steel", Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee and the Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster.

Peres

Posted on: 10 December 2008 by count.d

quote:
Another thing that I wanted to talk about is the Led Zeppelin 200gm 33RPM reisues of classic records.
They are already out of print, but are still available at astronomic prices in EBay.

Well, my advice is: don't buy them.

I have the first 6 led zeppelin records of this releases and the sound doesn't match very well with the zeppelin music, it's too mutch hi-fi like

Maybe system dependant. They sound great on mine.

Posted on: 11 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

Analogue Productions is going to release on the beginning of the year 25 impulse records, they will be also 45RPM (2 records for $50), it seems that the jackets will be gatefold like the originals, hope they will have the same quality as the music matters blue note reissues

Posted on: 14 December 2008 by Peres da Silva

There's anybody out there with PURE AUDIOPHILE records ?

I am thinking of buying the two RAY CHARLES records in their catalog ("Ray Sings, Basie Swings" and "Genius loves company").

I read that the quality of the productions, and the sound of the records are TOP QUALITY, they are half speed mastered by stan richer in 33RPM 180gm vinyl.

But what do you have to say about these two records ? They are not the best works of Ray Charles...but are they still good works to have? or just an audiophile show off ?