Don't you? Lots of labels have cottoned on to the fact that they can make great margins from knocking out a badly sourced record so long as they put a '180g audiophile vinyl' sticker on the front. All these records sound very good, so I'm very happy with this label. Experience live in-store music and artist signing events. Even with the good audiophile companies that Michael listed, one needs to check carefully. Also, I've come to the conclusion that so called "mastering" is simply a ploy to make the recording sound LOUDER. The albums were subsequently re-cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, this time using the analog master tapes, and they sound fantastic. The Hoffman/Gray re-issues from Analogue Productions and Music Matters are spectacular, and a benchmark for how an audiophile re-issue should be made and marketed. It was then that I noticed that the actual tracks on the individual albums weren't in the same order as on the cover or the original, and that there were actually some additional tracks, like one of those extended cd reissues. West Hollywood, CA 90069". Although none of that describes sound quality it's still a help on some level knowing what's what. Hermitage. Bryan Ferry, Dylanesque, 96/24. This work is written by US Government employees and is in the public domain in the US. I also doubt that they share them or even give them on loan to anyone. I have bought a couple of records from this label for $15+tax: Ray Charles and Grant Green, and found the quality to be poor. They did not respond. I have bought a lot of reissues years ago without the knowledge of digital to vinyl sacrilege that I now know about. If you're talking about the Rhino Electric Warrior, I don't know what it was cut or sourced from, but the record itself was noisy, and I was not impressed with the sound. 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The quality on these releases has been steadily improving over the last few years. I have not yet tried any of their jazz releases. the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. I suspect Doxy is one of those labels that's sprung up in Europe to release music that's now in the public domain under EU law, which is pretty much anything pre 1961 or so, from what I understand. Many of them were cut at places like Bell Sound that used dupes of dupes for cutting, and they sound awful. Pepper. for Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emmerick at a mastering session where I got to hear the master tape that Geoff had flown over from the U.K. for a planned 30th Anniversary CD edition. The ones I have heard are uniformly crap. Not particularly good I picked up Dylan's 'No Mercy'. No information is lost. And here's a reissue to steer WAY clear of WaxTime Lilith and others and the public domain, What about the Japan EMI DBLP Blue Note mono Reissue. I was able to push it out of the two adjacent groves easily. Related to quality record. What do you say to that? I have some Elvis gold CDs that sound better. Again, this is 1960s jazz material that is in the public domain in the EU. It is HUGE. Not an audiophile quality release, but it may be a good addition to a collection just as a document. There has been a long history of decpetive marketing, as we are slowly finding out. Last time I checked, they didn't even have a website, just an email address, which also makes one suspicious that the operation is a bit fly-by-night. I also checked the fine print on the back cover and found "this compilation copyright 2008 Lilith Records" and "manufactured in EU under license from OOO 'Universal Music', Russia". I have had horrible luck with new issues. Greetings, Kevin here in The City. It's not pretty. Recorded 2/65. I think the guy "robert" is full of it, and doesn't know anything about this series. It would stand to reason the highest resolution digital files were used for the LP Can you tell me please what the original sources for the HD Tracks files are? Leonard Cohen - the 4 men with Beards reissues - "Apparently" all Hi-Rez digital He heard the HF boost and was outraged. So, please, any ideas would be much appreciated. Once again I'll point out it's the labels that choose the plants and allow bad product to reach the market, they should be named and shamed so that they use the better plants and pay extra for things like poly-lined inner sleeves. I'd take the DSD sourced vinyl over those any day as they are way closer to the masters (unboxed Decca UK pressings are a different matter, most of those sound great if you can find them in good condition). Very sad. Rhino is a division of Warner Brothers and if you see Rhino, chances are sources are good, even if the label is Scorpio. T68 Super Member Messages: 2,868 Location: Sweden Hi! It is unfortunate. Same crappy mastering only on thicker vinyl. Apart from the ones mentioned, it gets really difficult to work out what sources are. https://www.otaiweb.com/anarog/bluenotefront.jpg. Well if the source and other info is listed on the record, of course consider that release. ________________________________________. A total of 18 studies analyzed the effect of an EMR on the quality of health care (78%), 16 the effect on the efficiency of health care (70%). Wax Time reissues are sold widely by reputable record stores like Amoeba and Rasputin, and while not in the price range of the true audiophile masterings, they're not exactly cheap, eithertypically about $20 retail at a brick and mortar store. It would be worth putting an area on Analog Planet devoted to this. How do I go about researching who is issuing what? This is supposed to sound good. I have consentrated on looking for original pressings more over the last few years. While this should help improve your AK experience, there may be a slight interruption of service during the actual software transfer. I emailed Music on Vinyl and this is the response I got. Love the record, it sounds just a tad muddy. The album is badly in need of a proper scrubbing, and sounds as noisy as ever, but we still love giving it a spin. The purpose of the Recorder of Deeds is to ensure the accuracy of Hickory County property and land records and to preserve their continuity. The same problem exists for audiophile CD reissues. This is not possible in France. My reference recording is Sheffield Lab's direct to analogue recording of James Newton Howard & Friends. Ages ago I bought around 25 of them since the originals are super rare in playable condition (Meters, JB, Electric Prunes, Leon Thomas, Dr. John, Gil Scott-Heron). We do get it from certain labels, like Mobile Fidelity, ORG, ORG Music, Analogue Productions, Music Matters, IMPEX, Mosaic, Rhino, Pure Pleasure, Speakers Corner, Reference Recordings, more recently Sony/Legacy and probably a few others I can't recall off the top of my head. So not really "original masters". Just because something's been pressed on 180 gram vinyl doesn't mean its going to sound good or that it was sourced from analog. 2) we don't know what we cut this LP from. He never had the original mono tapes. Magical Mystery Tour was the specific title I had in mind when I orignally posted this. I'd like to throw in my two cents: Avoid anything released by the Italian reissue label Get Back records. Heard a $12 copy of Pete La Roca's Basra in one shop on a basic system that sounded pretty flat, and a few months later I was in a store where they were spinning the 1995 reissue, and it sounded great. This program brought electronic health records to well over 80% of ambulatory physicians and virtually every hospital in the United States. Ermitage 66K views10 years ago Pierino e il lupo - Lucio Dalla Play all Fiaba con musica di Sergej Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) Lucio Dalla - regia e voce recitante Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di. A couple of years ago I bought a Vinyl Lovers reissue of the Allman Brothers "Eat a Peach". I guaranty you, the ZYX was cut either from a CD or some other source that the mastering engineer completely ruined when he cut it. Hey! Shuga Records is a Chicago-based record store and record label specializing in new and vintage rock, jazz, punk, hip-hop, electronic, psychedelic, metal vinyl records and posters. Here is the confirmation I recently received from them: "Thank you for your interest in Exhibit Records. Bought it anyway, and wasn't super happy. If Mikey, with his connections, can't get this information, what hope is there for us? This is one of the most useful threads on the website. To this day I think it's my brightest-sounding LP. So, like probably many people I thought buying 180 or 200 gram remastered vinyl was a good thing. The album, IMO, sounds incredible. Digital, most likely 48/24k. Mark Hammar is a Certied Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence through the American Society for Quality and has been a Quality Professional since 1994. Consider The OXFAM Online Record Store, Platter World in Garfield, NJ Closing End of December, 2014, Record Score of the Day at The Princeton Record Exchange. There is a wealth of music being reissued on vinyl, but not all labels are equal. I completely agree with Mickey that it's dicey at best with remasters if the info is limited. View 110 Hermitage Ave, Lafayette, LA 70503 property records for FREE including property ownership, deeds, mortgages, titles & sales history, current & historic tax assessments, legal, parcel & structure description, land use, zoning & more. It is suggested that you develop one procedure to comply with Clause 4.16. Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 8:54 AM If need be I add a note to the review section underneath the release. I'm French, excuse my english. On top of that, our sound engineer has over 35 years of experience in cutting and mastering records for (major) labels. Another informative article by Mikey and terrific feedback from the many knowledgeable readers; most of whom, I imagine are far more knowledgeable than myself, which is why I am throwing my question out to the field. I can only guess what that all means, but it can't be good and can't be from the masters. Great article and followup posts. I bought 3 records, opened only 1 - Jacob Fischer Trio/My Romance. Never again. One of the grand promises of health care digitization through the adoption of EHRs was better quality reporting and a path to improving day-to-day clinical outcomes by reinforcing best practices and modifying poor-quality care. You have made a very serious charge. Ermitage US Customs records for Ermitage, a supplier based in France. At least one track on it was on the ZYX reissue. Please be more specific about your charge! Of course they have their own set of problems. Yesterday I compared the Beatles White Album, original and 180 gram remastered and now I'm checking all my newly purchased remastered vinyl. Having only just started to re-build my vinyl record collection, advice like this is invaluable! I have plenty of LPs from the 50s, 60s and 70s that were cut 100% analog every step of the way (obviously) and still sound horrible. On the back of the Waxtime sleeves is DMM (Direct Metal Mastering), and for Lilith and Doxy in the Dig-a-Log collection it uses the word "analog". Price: 85. Glad someone else noticed. And, I still own the first LP my family ever owned - Neil Diamond's Moods from 1972, which my mom bought on impulse as we were returning home from school and she saw the album in a record store window. Simply Vinyl has done some Elvis reissues and other LPs. http://disc.gs/Review. To your specific inquiry, the original analog master tapes were the source for our remastered vinyl release of Chet Atkins & Les Paul, "Chester & Lester" (eXLP1-44061). I use a V15 VMR on a variety of turntables, and MoFi has been pretty noisy. The same problem exists for audiophile CD reissues also. https://www.discogs.com/Santana-Abraxas/release/16479144, I just read through this whole thread and found it very interesting. You can read a review of a Vinyl Lover's John Cale reissue on this site. Doxy and WaxTimes can claim their junk is sourced from the original tapes too, after all, the CD they use to master comes from the original tape. I have about 20+ of these EMI japan reissues, they are totally fantastic. I am not impressed with the quality controls in the press/release process at Wax Time, a record company out of Spain. I've been around vinyl since the 70s and many of the Scorpio records sound good and have stickers stating "manufactured by Rhino" (whatever that means). Most record labels don't seem keen on the idea of any kind of transparency. Heaven only knows how they got here and in the surprisingly good sound quality. . Of course, the CBS Mastersound LP of Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is a great example of this. There never was a true mono master for many of these. In my opinion, 10 new songs suffered a bit from some wierd Pro-tools sounding stuff. The audio has noticeable background noise, but it's definitely because of the source and not from the record itself. The primary data studies achieved a mean score of 4.3 (SD 1.37; theoretical maximum 10); the secondary data studies a mean score of 7.1 (SD 1.26; theoretical maximum 9). Scorpio and many other "to be avoided labels" are reissuing many hip rare underground records that the high end reissue labels aren't doing and will never do. I've never heard a 1st pressing, only CD masters until this point, so I can only compare what I have heard. Subject: RE: Contact Inquiry From HDtracks. Just to be sure, I compared it to the mp3 version on Spotify, which blows it out of the water in EVERY respect. "I have not been at liberty to reveal sources on mastering since around 2000. In the unlikelyhood that Mobile Fidelity or Speakers Corner does their fancy reissue of these records I'll gladly fork out the money, but in the mean time if I want to hear Embryo, Lard Free, Mythos, Anaxis Quam, Holderlein and lot's more, I'll be listening to them on Wah Wah. The original was much better. Another 88 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1379, 1596, 1662, 1850, 1655, 1641, 1600, 1644, 1629, 1677, 1652, 1694, 1653, 1732, 1660, 1736, 1673 and 1737 are included under the topic Early Ermitage History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever . If all the informationis not available, there is probably a reason. Isn't this what the search engine is for? I had the original European vinyl. The Bottom Line: Supply & Demand. Interesting reading, especially your opinions on Music On Vinyl. Put on album title, record label or company, and what the sources were for the record. So your best bet for a good sounding reissue would be the record company that owns the recording. They are: Serge Gainsbourg They used Capitol 3 & 4th generation copies, Parlophone eq'd dubs etc. Audiokarma is about to undergo a server change and upgrade. Now when I shop and I'm not sure about a title I'll ask the vendor to hold the record behind the counter for a day or two so I can do some research on sites like this. Don't dismiss them outright because of the label, because you might be passing up a good vinyl. The Related rights in France are fixed at 50 years for a musical work, but if I understand correctly, for an American record, it is more complex, and generally longer. Fly Records (HiFly 6) pressing mastered by George "Porky" Peckham, you will s..t yourself! No-one seems to know. Yes, I assume they do, but judging by the low quality pressings that get to market I just don't think some labels care, or even realise just how bad their pressings are, as I said it's labels that really should be checking for themselves and rejecting poor pressings, getting things re-cut and even pulling entire runs if they aren't good enough, very few labels seem willing to do that and without mentioning any names I've talked to a few label people who really don't have a clue about quality or care. If they were taken directly from the original two track analog masters, I believe they would have said so. Patricia Barbers "Caf Blue" is a 44.1/16k recording, but the LP is very listenable. They have also released some excellent sounding pressings, for example of film soundtracks or historical compilationsthey are not a pure re-issue label, they also have original releases, though no original artists I think. 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