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The re- issue of 200gm vinyl and SACD is no longer featured on the Analogue Productions web site. On the Acoustic Sounds web site (records sales) it states : Availability : noshow : Sorry this Product is no longer available. Was really looking forward...
I've done it... At the weekend dropped off all my CDs (c.300 plus about 50 DVDs) at the charity shop. With the recent sale of my Rega and LPs I'm now 100% streaming.
According to Rick Wakeman. Click. John.
I bought a SHM CD from Japan recently (Eagles - Hell Freezes Over ) it has a Catalogue number of UICY-1 5007 . When I checked with Discogs it suggests that the catalogue number should be / is UICY-91059 . The CD I have been sent was made by...
"Stand by Me" RIP
You'll need to find your country's link in the text to see available titles http://www.recordstoreday.com/ Anything generating much excitement? Even Joan Rivers' stand-up comedy has been remixed and remastered for...
ESKA, ONE OF MUSIC'S BEST KEPT SECRETS, BRINGS EXCITING NEW SOUND TO NAIM. "A blooming piece of DIY Soul" Mercury Prize Recommends "Her voice can skip and swoop like Joni Mitchell" " Q **** " So distinctive and confessional is Eska's voice that she's created a British pastoral music that defies classification" Uncut 8/10 ESKA is the most talked about, revered singer you've probably never heard of. Prepare to be let in on one of music's best kept secrets in 2015 when ESKA finally releases her...
Very, very impressed by Miss Marling's songs on last week's "Later". Interested in purchasing "Short Movie" on vinyl, however, need to know whether it was mastered at 33 or 45rpm? Three tracks per side suggests 45 - although I could be completely wrong?
So I was thinking... How does the efficiency of the process of creating the music compare to the process of replaying a recording of the music. I was sat there listening to Anthony Phillips play the acoustic guitar and wondering. I mean here I was...
Reopening last month's thread about Bach's St Matthew Passion. In the past weeks, I've extensively listened to Jacobs' 2013 recording. It wasn't the first recording that used surround sound to spatially differentiate the two choruses, but it is the...
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra cancelled a concert to be given by Valentina Lisitsa because of her offensive political tweets: http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/o...ly-offensive-tweets/
I have stumbled across this article which may be of interest to lovers of recorded music; HOW MUSICIANS ARE DESTROYING THE RECORDING INDUSTRY by João Ganho Let's get honest here: musicians don't hear the same way a sound engineer does. In fact, they are light years from us and they will never understand sound as we do in all their lifetime. They will never understand what a good recording is, muchless how to distinguish a good one from a reference one. As hard as a sound engineer works and...
The Naim streamer software (beta) now supports DSD, and I want to try it! Any recommendations for something that might truly 'show off' "the magic of DSD?" Yes, this is more about the technology than the performance. I want to hear...
"When a man loves a woman"...
I visited the "A Marriage of Styles - Pop to Abstraction" exhibition at the Mascalls Gallery and they had on display "Crest" by Bridget Riley. I spent many an hour gazing at this in the past as it is the cover art for the Faust Tapes. Quite moving to...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32251994
A master among masterers with extensive credits in multiple genres. Founder of The Mastering Lab, I think most vinyl aficionados recognize the consistent, quality sound associated with a "TML" stamp in the deadwax. An early...
We want to get a dog and have never had one. I'm a bit worried about the records on the floor. There is really nowhere else to put this part of the collection since the only other room availableis also filled with albums. Can dogs & records coexist? this is kind of what i have to deal with and there's more behind couch and on other walls. record boxes are an option but they are expensive and i would need at least 13.
Wow! Who is buying this stuff? Reported as an anonymous buyer. Yeah, I'd want to remain anonymous. Great, iconic song, but $1.2M? "McLean, 69, said he wanted to release the lyrics to help people understand the true meaning of the song". How...
I love my LPs, so much so that I am archiving them at 9624 .....but, every now and then I run across an album that is in perfect condition but was mastered atrociously. Yesterday I needle dropped Genesis' Genesis and Duke. The former is nothing...
Get it and enjoy... Incredible if you see the piano construction ( are music links allowed?) thanks to Nils for this work... http://www.pianoday.org ralf
Owen Jones writes in The Guardian ....can we discover new songs of struggle, and music that will change the world? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/01/paloma-faith-support-act-music-struggle?CMP=share_btn_fb
FFS! Inevitably inferior sounding remasters of course. John.
I'm so green with envy. Everyone seems to be talking about the N272, but I can't afford one. So I've been listening to "The Church Bells" on Columbia. Sounds as good now, as it did, when I was 8yrs old. Sorry for not being in touch,...
Van Halen have just released the original 6 Roth albums in 24bit, for the second time. Back to the original master tapes, for new (2015) re-masters, and if these improve on the sound any thing like the Rush downloads then I feel another double...