That sounds like a good bet. Optimal did The Rolling Stones Half Speeds.
Bottom line is there are gonna be a ton of these made. Enough that I am willing to bet I can pick up a copy at adiscount a few month down the road if they turn out to be excellent. No reason to rush in right now.
Nope you are correct. I Mixed up Optimal and MPO. My bad.Mine are pretty much all MPO except Goats Head Soup, which is GZ. Were yours different?
Nope you are correct. I Mixed up Optimal and MPO. My bad.
I have this one...Are the Goats Head Soup all from GZ? That's the worst pressing of the bunch I have.
I have the MOFI 33 version, it is great. I'm sure the KG will also be great.I would have loved to get the One Step but yeah splitting the album up is definitely not ideal. I’m hoping the KG cut comes close to that. I’ve never heard the standard issue MoFi but I have had original copies throughout the years as well as an 80’s reissue that sounded best to me. It’s also impossible to find NM OG Tamla pressings of Marvin Gaye.
I think that was my 4th copy? Looks like they repressed, no scratches at all on the vinyl and the no fill issues on side 2 are gone. Massive dish warp of course but I can deal with that ..Finally !
Analog guru of truth you are !I have the MOFI 33 version, it is great. I'm sure the KG will also be great.
But folks - Rob LoVerde at MOFI is no slouch, he is among the finest mastering talents in the world, and has access to arguably a better mastering suite than KPG. There are reasons why MOFI's retain their value and are prized all over the world.
I doubt anyone who has a MOFI needs to jump at the new KG version. But those who don't now have what will surely be an excellent sounding, low price version. Best of both worlds.
All my early copies were too, but this appears to be a repress from what I can tell so you might be good trying now...My Soul Station was a popping mess so I returned it. Scared to try to get another. But all my Classics since then have been fine (for a low cost version)
I’ve had a bad run of warped records lately, mostly from Pallas too, which is unusual .
Got my first Intervention Records album! The Joan Armatrading self-titled. It sounds amazing. I have to reexamine the other albums they have reissued to see what else I wanna pick up from them eventually.
That title is amazing
Finally got the VMP Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders today. This thing sounds real good. Not sure if all of the pressings were done at Pallas (thought I read it was at different places depending where you ordered from).