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In Reply to: RE: If highly compromised commercial LPs sound good on your system you would not like a sound of a Master Tape! posted by mothra on June 28, 2007 at 17:43:13:
to use who love music.
The difference is not the name. The difference is sounding as close as possible to the original event. The difference is NOT rolling off the bass. The difference is NOT rolling off the highs. The difference is NOT smashing the soundstage. The difference in NOT squashing the dynamic range.
The biggest difference is REAL audiophile LPs sound like musicians playing REAL instruments in REAL acoustic places. Remember Audiophile is REAL music, Commercial is dumbed-down recordings made for mass consumption.
Here are some Audiophile recording companies I recommend:
Analogue Productions
AudioQuest Music
AudioSource
Café Records
Cardas Records
Century Records
Chesky Records
Cisco Music
Classic Records
Crystal Clear Records
DCC Compact Classics
East Wind
Groove Note
Klavier Records
Linn Records
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Naim
New Haven Records
Reference Recordings
Sheffield Lab
Speakers Corner
Super Analogue Disc
Tacet
Wilson Audiophile
Honorable Mention goes to commercial labels Harmonia mundi and Lyrita Recorded Edition whose finished LPs sound superb with most of the realism I associate with audiophile records.
I was very unhappy with the sound of the original Rhino Vinyl 180-Gram LPs however it looks like the new Rhino Vinyl LPs mastered by Steve Hoffman may now be a real audiophile label, time will tell.
Of the phony "Audiophile" 180 Gram LPs of late I avoid Get Back, Castle and Simply Vinyl like the plague as these labels do a terrible disservice to the Analog name! Their sound ranges from stridently dry and truly "awful" ear-ripping sound even worst than the worst CD on the cheapest foulest sounding CD player on the planet. Avoid these at all costs!
As far as the major labels are concerned I am willing to spend up to $1.00 for a major label LP if and only if it is not available from a real audiophile company. But if I am spending $15.00 - $30.00 an LP I get the real audiophile LPs not the phony audiophile LPs dished up by the major labels.
Most major label recordings I find way too compromised on any format except analog tape. For some reason the Major labels never felt the urge to roll-off the bass and muck up the sound of their cassettes. So for the major labels I prefer Cassette and Reel to Reel tape.
"Music is love"
Teresa
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Follow Ups
- A real audiophile recording as opposed to the major labels rip-off of the word "audiophile" means alot - Teresa 21:54:02 06/28/07 (1)
- RE: A real audiophile recording as opposed to the major labels rip-off of the word "audiophile" means alot - mothra 00:37:24 06/29/07 (0)
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