As for Electric Warrior if you can find a U.K. 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). I think its only fair to buyer that they disclose the source used to cut the LP. Great to see the reissue of Some Girls is now on HD Tracks. Marche Hongroise, Schumann . He mainly travels from center to right. One of their LPs I bought had a blob of glue in the middle of side one, and this was a $40 Comus LP. We will let you know before it is started. You can read a review of a Vinyl Lover's John Cale reissue on this site. Then the labels mentioned above, steer clear of anything from Doxy, it is virtually guaranteed to be 44.1/16. Legend states that "Pink Moon" was the only Nick Drake album that still has the existing analog, 2-track master. Isn't this what the search engine is for? This property is not currently available for sale. Finally we realized it was the identical take but sounding soooo wrong, it was difficult to identify. Compressed and terrible sounding Completely agree, I had a similar experience as well with quality issues. ________________________________________. Are they worth buying? One concern I have is that some vinyl enthusiasts will automatically reject any reissue that has been "contaminated" by digital in any way whatsoever, which might be part of the reason labels are sometimes not forthcoming with information. Could be I get more Optimal product than any other but I have had a fair number of pressings with one off faults. I was able to push it out of the two adjacent groves easily. University Records means records or record systems that Proposer (1) creates, (2) receives from or on behalf of University, or (3) has access, and which may contain confidential information (including credit card information, social security numbers, and private health information (PHI) subject to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 . That makes no sense though because some people are still interested in music from Aaliyah's catalog (which is available on an extremely limited basis right now.). He never had the original mono tapes. We definitely need something like this we are getting ripped off left right and centre. They are "simply" about vinyl. I would like to say that I am more of the persuasion that record companies are ripping everyone off by knowingly releasing an inferior sounding product to keep the "remaster" business going. http://robertmusic.blogspot.fr/2011/11/about-those-toshiba-japan-blue-no https://www.discogs.com/Santana-Abraxas/release/16479144, Love Those Vintage British Pressings? I'm reading an old thread, but just to add my 2 cents: back in the late '90s I realized Mofi did not always use original masters when I bought Clapton's "461 Ocean Blvd", which contained a track from his subsequent album ("One In Every Crowd") right in the middle of the CD. And some post partial information, like on some John Coltrane reissues that have a sticker that says "Sourced by Rhino, distributed by Scorpio.". I own a ton of Music On Vinyl records and I have always thought they sound great but i'm a vinyl noob and only have about $3000 worth of gear so maybe i'm not hearing what you hear. ERMITAGE Record Number: ERM 160-2 UPC: 8014394101603 Country: ITALY D/A Code: Analog CD Beethoven, Symphony #5 + Rehearsal. MMT, White Album and Abbey Road. How It Sounds on Vinyl The First & Only Vinyl SQ Database , Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service, Well mastered records sound better bigger, clearer, wider, more coherent and louder. 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. Bob Dylan Bootleg Series 8, Tell tale signs; 44.1/16k digital. It could have been a great Beatles collection but some one at MFSL back then was making bad judgementcalls in regards to the eq used. You have made a very serious charge. Yes I should have mentioned them as "musts to avoid." They used Capitol 3 & 4th generation copies, Parlophone eq'd dubs etc. Awful! Whatever your take on Robert Palmers interpretation, the sound on that single is awesome. If there is a bad pressing - is commentary more likely to be offered in a unfocused and unwieldy general thread on bad pressings or in a thread focused on that specific recording/release? Early History of the Ermitage family. How is the pressing quality? After I cleaned out the mass, I used my Record Doctor V vacuum record cleaner with a small mix of distilled water and 99% isopropyl alcohol and sucked out the residue. I'm thinking of getting this LP, since it seems to be the only release of the original soundtrack for "Psycho" on vinyl (I compared it to the movie and it's definitely not a re-recording). 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. I remember purchasing some, and quickly learning my lesson. The Classic Series will once again feature all-analog 180g vinyl pressings in standard packaging that are mastered by Kevin . This is not a case of semantics and again leaves one to wonder. The actually "lifted" the black and gold sticker Sundazed first created. Caveat Emptor. DOLCHESS 140g (pressed in the UK?) Italian Archives online. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Early studies on digital data quality within electronic health records revealed a long list of concerns including: incompleteness, duplication, inconsistent organization, fragmentation and an inadequate use . Resources available online on the Antenati Portal are mostly civil records, though parish records are included as well in some archives in central and Northern Italy, where civil records were introduced for a short time under the Napoleonic occupation (1806-1814). Glad someone else noticed. Bob Dylans "Modern Times" LPis much better than the CD, real dynamic range where the CD sounds squashed. It's a Universal remaster. Taxonomic accuracy was generally high (Table 3). This is a defect known as stitching - a mechanical defect, which is both visual and audible. While I do try to chiefly hunt down original pressings of my favorite albums, the occasional re-release is unavoidable for the unobtainable. That's their right of course, but I swear it's almost like a disease..okay, I'm probably ranting about this in the wrong place. Just listen to 'Cool Struttin' and compare to any analog sourced version, and all the hallmarks of a digital source are there. While the Music on Vinyl might be from a high rez digital source (although given I've never seen one on HDTracks etc, maybe not), it definitely isn't just ripped from CD, as the mixes are distinctly different. Some of these tapes were originals, but some weren't. I thought it was cute that Rhino used the wrong labels on the Meters and Dr. John LP's so people don't pass them off as originals (like that dealer in New Orleans) by using the 2-color Reprise W7 label for the Meters and the old 50's Atco label with the harp for Dr. John. Thanks! Under 120X power, I gently pushed the material out of the grooves with the clean tip of a wooden toothpick. Widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) in the United States is transforming the practice of medicine from a paper-based cottage industry into an integrated health care delivery system. Watch out when the Beatles, Stones and others get into the public domain here. I recently got our latest test pressing from Optimal and it's up to their usual standards, we've never ever had any quality issues with them over dozens of releases so if you are getting poor Optimal pressings I'd suspect it's because some stage in the process is outside of their control, as for the others I don't think there's very much between any of them on a good day and the only one I'd hesitate using is GZ. Hi! I could see the globule was 'mushy' and soft. A truly great article and responses. I have two very good sounding compilation LPs from "The Swingin' Pig" from the early '80s with a selection of Beatles, Stones and Hendrix tunes. If Mikey, with his connections, can't get this information, what hope is there for us? When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, In my opinion, 10 new songs suffered a bit from some wierd Pro-tools sounding stuff. Is there an easy and inexpensive way I can improve my system? Granados . It also is used to evaluate practitioner performance, to monitor resource use, and to determine . - My pressing of "Pink Moon" does not appear to have been manufactured by Simply Vinyl. 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. I played the box version of Sgt. Same with "together through life". It's definitely a good effort. Classic Records' version of Tapestry was fantastic. Seem like they're readily available and less than $15/LP. I guess I have to stick with mainly used vinyl. Lionel. I need to review that I have it here. Tell ya what though, the pressings I've been happiest with have come from Quality Records. Same for "together through life". Morton Feldman and Earl Brown, 3 Pierre Henry records and A couple John Cage Lp's. Miller Industries is seeking to fill the position of Quality & Regulatory Assurance Engineer at our Hermitage, PA facility. They are: Serge Gainsbourg Something is definitely wrong with that Hyper Magnum Sound Direct Mix Stereo. See their past imports and exports, including shipments to Charlois Cooperage Usa in Cloverdale, California. The resteither duplicates or some other explanation. Price: 85. Thank you for shining light on this topic. I have bought a lot of reissues years ago without the knowledge of digital to vinyl sacrilege that I now know about. Quality of Miles Davis on Ermitage 180 gram Vinyl Discussion in ' Music Forums ' started by T68, Feb 16, 2019 . When I first played it, it sounded so bad I thought there was something wrong with my system. but when you put the record on - psshhhhpssshhhtt. Fly Records (HiFly 6) pressing mastered by George "Porky" Peckham, you will s..t yourself! It sounds quite respectable. And I'm glad you are not "digiphobic" and call them as they sound. The truth of the matter is records in good condition have a higher sound quality than any other medium - even better than a modern CD or DVD. I also picked up the Fat Possum reissue of The Slider, even though my copy is still in good shape. Many comments say that Lilith, Doxy, Dol and others are labels that exploit works that have fallen into the public domain. The 68 records which did not allow for accurate identification (38 records with poor image quality, and 30 records without a picture), were removed. Anyone can go in, open a new record, and put in the info. I'm not sure I see the value in such a thread. Most of what I've read isn't positive. 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 agree with you there! These were all sourced from Capitol submasters and not EMI originals. Often you can see a "WG/NRP" on the inner groove area, which means "Wes Garland at Nashville Record Productions" did the cutting even though the credits say "mastered by Bob Irwin". Not uniformly bad but definately hit or miss, and for typical vinyl prices I can't afford to take chances on labels like these. The VA's Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP) began investigating the alleged misconduct in November 2021 in response to the OMI's findings, according to internal emails . Mark Hammar is a Certied Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence through the American Society for Quality and has been a Quality Professional since 1994. 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