Definitive Audiophile pressings

MikeH said:
I think a lot depends on the type of music you’re listening to as well. Which MoFis do ya have? AP has much better/wider range of curation and a much better jazz selection. I don’t get excited by many new MoFi titles. But just going off some titles I have, there are a more MoFis off the top of my head that I would put in my top 10 sounding albums than APs. I do own more MoFis though. For some reason I haven’t picked up nearly as many APs.
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Bill Withers @ Carnegie Hall, GD- American Beauty, Kind of Blue, and Jefferson Airplane, think I may have another in there but I can't remember off the top of my head lol. The Miles Davis is the one that sounds the best to me, all of the others have been good but haven't yet wowed me like the APs have.
 
A new one from Sam Records is up for pre-order. Funnily enough, I ordered from Sam's a few weeks back and received an email from Fred today to say that all their international packages have been stuck in France for weeks and looks to be an issue, so he sent a new order without me even asking.

Anyway, the interesting thing about this one is that there is a caveat stating it will ALSO be released as the second in their Artisan series, limited to 200 with a screen-printed cover. Im VERY tempted to wait and go for that one, its going to be pricey but the first one is apparently excellent.

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Ghost said:
Bill Withers @ Carnegie Hall, GD- American Beauty, Kind of Blue, and Jefferson Airplane, think I may have another in there but I can't remember off the top of my head lol. The Miles Davis is the one that sounds the best to me, all of the others have been good but haven't yet wowed me like the APs have.
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I'm like you... don't have a lot of MOFI's (only 4) but those I have never wowed me. Could be a genre thing? The Pretenders S/T and Marshall Crenshaw are very nice. Love those and return to them often. My Elvis Costello Get Happy is ok, but I find it tiring to listen to. The wall-of-sound type mastering may be the intent for this album and it may very well be the best it can be, but it's just ok to me. Then I also have Weezer's blue album and that one I don't like. The warmth feels sucked out of it. On top of that, my copy has a ton of background noise and swishing. I probably have a bad copy and maybe that's what sours me. But then that means I have a bad copy of an expensive supposed audiophile record... Now, I have Brother In Arms on the way, so hopefully that one falls in the very nice category and takes my MOFI track record above .500.

On the other hand, I have 8 AP's, both 33pm and 2x45rpm, and they are all stellar (3x The Doors, 3x CCR, one Stevie Ray Vaughan and Hancock's Head Hunters). I have a Sonny Stitt AP on the way too.
 
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Ghost said:
Bill Withers @ Carnegie Hall, GD- American Beauty, Kind of Blue, and Jefferson Airplane, think I may have another in there but I can't remember off the top of my head lol. The Miles Davis is the one that sounds the best to me, all of the others have been good but haven't yet wowed me like the APs have.
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Ah that Withers sounds fantastic to me. I was blasting that one the other day and it felt like I was in the venue.

I think Kind of Blue is a bit overrated actually but sounds solid. The other Miles on MoFi sound better to me. In A Silent Way rules. I have the 70s GD and have Workingman's Dead 45 which sounds great. I'd say MoFi is at like a 80-90% wow rate for me. Might be a bit biased too since Mingus Ah Um and the Dylan One Step are probably 2 of my top 3 sounding albums next to the Radiohead disc box. I have yet to listen to an AP that wows me as much as those two. Granted, I did pay almost twice as much for those compared to the APs even on a heavy sale discount. I stayed away from the APs for awhile too because I don't love 45s as much but have warmed up to them lately.

Did you ever get that Ella and Louis by the way? I saw Plaidroom had it on sale today for 15% off list.
 
Lush Life arrived today. Spinning it now and it sounds excellent. It arrived safely (minus a tiny tiny seam split on the top of the LP sleeve). Doesn't appear to be individually numbered though as they said it should be.
 
MikeH said:
I think Kind of Blue is a bit overrated actually but sounds solid. The other Miles on MoFi sound better to me.
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I couldn’t agree more with this! The MoFi Kind of Blues sounds pretty great but it didn’t wow me like the other Miles Davis MoFi pressings!!! 💯

Get onto those other Miles Davis MoFi’s @Ghost !!! 🎯💎
 
Turbo said:
You guys are going to make me want to buy it, even though I really don't need any Withers other than Still Bill and maybe Just As I Am.
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I personally love it and agree that the live album sounds amazing. I prefer it over the Withers Greatest Hits Mofi. The Speakers Corner of Just As I Am is awesome too if you want that one.
 
MikeH said:
I personally love it and agree that the live album sounds amazing. I prefer it over the Withers Greatest Hits Mofi. The Speakers Corner of Just As I Am is awesome too if you want that one.
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The SC Just As I Am is on my wantlist so I keep checking for it regularly. Probably just a matter of time. I've had the Carnegie Hall on the corner of my eye since you guys always talk about it. To tell the truth, I probably would have picked it up if it was available at one of my usual Canadian stores... These days, I pretty much always do a search for SC, AP and MOFI every time I do some online shopping, just to see what they have.
 
Hey, so which of the new Rhino black history month releases are KG? Has anyone figured if any were AAA and where they were pressed?
 
Turbo said:
Hey, so which of the new Rhino black history month releases are KG? Has anyone figured if any were AAA and where they were pressed?
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Young, Gifted and Black - Aretha and There's No Place like America - Curtis both seem to be KG@CA cuts. Not sure about the others. It's the frustrating thing about Rhino for me--they almost never announce who cut what or what the sources are until it comes out and people look in the deadwax. I usually just try to look on discogs as soon as they get released to see if people put the deadwax into the listings.

Sheila E and Curtis - Roots look to be Bellman cuts.
 
dhodo said:
America Today is a GZ press, but mine was nice and flat and I didn't notice any issues, thankfully.

Paper sleeve though, boo.
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I just looked at Discogs and it seems that they were all GZ so far. Paper sleeve sucks. I'm assuming you mean it's not even a printed inner? Like GZ needs additional variables to create issues.
 
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