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Some time ago I purchased a relatively new release of Rolling Stones "Beggars Banquet" LP (DSD, Direct SBM, 2003 ABKCO Records).
Long time ago I used to listen to this record on my Philips reel-to-reel tape recorder and liked it a lot. As far as I can remember, it always sounded good, though my equipment was not so revealing.
I suspect that the current release sounds awful due to poor remastering and some "chemistry" used by Sony (DSD is the trademark of Sony & Philips). As a typically digital company, Sony made this record from digital sources and apparently used digital sources.
I noticed, however, that some other manufacturers (like Music on Vinyl), while also using digital sources, make very good and analog sounding records (as far as rock music is concerned).
This Rolling Stones LP sounds muffled, with rolled-off highs, while the music is still good to my ears...
It worth mentioning that the Between the Buttons LP made by the same manufacturer sounds much better.
Any comments will be appreciated.
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You can dig for the London Bluebacks but, I have 2 of them and they are not that great, just a lot better than the rest of them. Plus, they are nowhere near new. All the stones records are pretty bad for recording quality.
I have that pressing and I'm listening to it now. On sympathy for the devil the sound isn't muffled but the piano is mixed out of phase and disappears when I press the mono button, then it sounds muffled so it's not just the piano. I don't have another pressing so don't know if that's just the way the stereo mix is or if it's this remix. Overall it's pretty crude but how much of that is from the original? there's other phase manipulation throughout too but not quite as extreme, the vocals are often back in the mix. The cover art is well chosen I think.
Out of curiosity I tried it on a Project Debut into a 35 year old Sansui and some cheap speakers. Here it sounded boxy and the vocals were a bit muffled but that system isn't setup so much as squeezed into gaps in the furniture in my dining room and it still managed to sound engaging.
I see. What is strange that side 2 seems to sound better than side 1. And you are quite right - there's no original to compare it with.
My final verdict would be "quite tolerable"...
I will try it on my vintage Eico or Sansui amp...
I own the Stones mono box set. Most all the LP's sound different. Some great, others not so good.
If they all sounded the same I'd be suspicious!
Cheers,
SB
" I suspect that the current release sounds awful due to poor remastering and some "chemistry" used by Sony (DSD is the trademark of Sony & Philips). As a typically digital company, Sony made this record from digital sources and apparently used digital sources."DSD is a process for capturing digtial information, just as PCM is. It is the way sound is carried on SACDs and, away from silver disc, is one of the formats used for high resolution digital audio.
Sony will have had no hand at all in making the copy of Beggars Banquet. They are (or were) the patent holders with Philips of the DSD process technology only. It may very well have been that none of their ( or Philips) equipment was even used in the production of this disc as other manufacturers licensed the process.
The disc is from Abkco Music and Records Inc. who are the current owners of the Stones repertoire from that era. If you don't like the sound then they are to blame not Sony. Abkco digitised the analogue master tapes and originally issued them as SACDs. What you have is an LP cut from those tapes. Incidentally I have all of the SACDs and they sound very good indeed. I am playing Beggar's Banquet from the SACD as I am writing this. However that does not mean that the LP is necessarily equally good.
Edits: 05/27/17
I don't have all the SACD's. (If I had any brains, I would have bought them all!) The ones I do have, including Beggars Banquet, sound very good to me.
Dave
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