Definitive Audiophile pressings

Joe Mac said:
My memory when I listened to them both not that long ago was that the compositions sounded identical but the second one sounded more organic which makes sense given the differences in instrumentation.
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I’m not doing a shoot out right now, but reading up on it. You are right about the general concept. The newer one is shorter than the original. It may be down to the difference in Hope and Urioste. May do a listening session to drive my wife mad soon though.
 
Nee Lewman said:
I’m not doing a shoot out right now, but reading up on it. You are right about the general concept. The newer one is shorter than the original. It may be down to the difference in Hope and Urioste. May do a listening session to drive my wife mad soon though.
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I think the first disc of the original, which covers the original Vivaldi is the same as the second. You’re right on the more out there very electronic and almost techno mixes but they were almost like extras, they only came on the deluxe cd and vinyl, the standard just had the first disc.
 
Joe Mac said:
I think the first disc of the original, which covers the original Vivaldi is the same as the second. You’re right on the more out there very electronic and almost techno mixes but they were almost like extras, they only came on the deluxe cd and vinyl, the standard just had the first disc.
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I mean the actual recomposed is four minutes shorter, not that the newer one doesn’t have the remix stuff.
 
Got a weird one. Talk talk - Laughing Stock. Badabing records did a reissue back in 2011. But some are cut by KG and pressed at RTI and others seem generic and unknown where it’s pressed. Reached out to the label out of curiosity and they got back to me right away. Apparently the label asked universal to license it and never heard anything back. Then 2 years later got approval out of the blue. But Universal was in complete charge of where it was manufactured. They asked the label if they had a preference of where to press and they said RTI. The owner of the label had no clue that a Kevin gray cut was done haha. Adding it to the list of records to track down. I got a sealed copy but it’s just the generic cut. seems to be no way to determine which cut is which on the sleeve since the packaging is the same.
 
MikeH said:
Got a weird one. Talk talk - Laughing Stock. Badabing records did a reissue back in 2011. But some are cut by KG and pressed at RTI and others seem generic and unknown where it’s pressed. Reached out to the label out of curiosity and they got back to me right away. Apparently the label asked universal to license it and never heard anything back. Then 2 years later got approval out of the blue. But Universal was in complete charge of where it was manufactured. They asked the label if they had a preference of where to press and they said RTI. The owner of the label had no clue that a Kevin gray cut was done haha. Adding it to the list of records to track down. I got a sealed copy but it’s just the generic cut. seems to be no way to determine which cut is which on the sleeve since the packaging is the same.
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Sadly I have a generic pressing. Every open copy I have ever come across has been a generic pressing.
 
I have the Kevin Gray from when it was randomly reissued in like 2014 or so. It sounds alright but my copy has some serious groove wear during “After the Flood” as part of a manufacturing issue I assume. It sounds pretty cool though, almost a “listening underwater” effect due to the distortion. I must say the original European CD sounds better to my ears though!
 
mitchwagz said:
I have the Kevin Gray from when it was randomly reissued in like 2014 or so. It sounds alright but my copy has some serious groove wear during “After the Flood” as part of a manufacturing issue I assume. It sounds pretty cool though, almost a “listening underwater” effect due to the distortion. I must say the original European CD sounds better to my ears though!
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Yea it’s strange. The label head told me they repressed it a few times so maybe they had to make new plates. Wonder if the first press was KG then they went generic?
 
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