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RE: Analogue Production's RCA Shaded Dog reissues

Posted by bassrome (P) on April 15, 2014 at 14:50:38

In Reply to: Analogue Production's RCA Shaded Dog reissues posted by bassrome on April 15, 2014 at 08:53:34:

I decided to sit down and do some comparisons of the 3 Analogue Production disks I have - Pictures at an Exhibition, Lt. Kije/Song of the Nightingale, and The Reiner Sound. Here are my notes:
Pictures:
AP - very dynamic, great instrumental timbres but a little bloated in the mid-bass
Classic - a little leaner but still deep bass, more transparency
Shaded - 23s/23s - lean in the bass, not as dynamic as the reissues, lovely midrange
(perhaps the fact that the AP pressings are 200gm and the Classic is 180 could explain the mid-bass issue)

Lt. Kije/Nightingale:
Classic - very good
AP - more transparency, better transients, good bass without the bloat
I had never played this piece (I'm a professional musician) and didn't realize that the Perfect 5th (pizzicato harmonics) played by what I thought were two cellists is actually a cello and a double bass. The AP pressing finally made that apparent.
Shaded - 24s/19s - leaner, less bass, not as dynamic

Ravel (Reiner Sound):
Classic - good
AP - more mid-bass bloat, pizzicato basses are not as precise
Chesky - good but not as transparent or dynamic, transferred at a lower level but with a deeper soundstage, slightly leaner in texture, still very good
Shaded - lower level in the bass
I still think the Classic has it all over the AP pressing in the Isle of the Dead.

All in all I think the new pressings are good but I'm not going to run out and replace my Classic reissues unless I hear different or the music means enough to me to want to try another one out. I'm looking forward to LSC-2111 and LSC-2395, neither of which were pressed by Classic Records.

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