MikeH
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as usual, hit me up if you want me to pick you up a copy. i'll be back in Notts end of May.
Definitive Audiophile pressings
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Joe Mac
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Thanks mate! I’ll see what’s happening with JPC on the next couple of weeks and give you a shout if necessary!
keylime_5
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That 2006 Rhino was in print for a while I think though. All those 2005-2011ish AAA Kevin Gray and Grundman/Bellman Rhinos that everyone took for granted until they were gone.
zdkaiser
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I was snatching up all those Rhino Grateful Dead reissues when they were $15 each because people took them for granted. All are solid 33rpm pressings, and wanna say all out of RTI
TenderLovingKiller®
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Yup, Pressed at RTI and per the Hype AAA cut from the origins tapes. I have doubled up and got the MoFi 2x45 of Workingman’s and American Beauty but aI am hesitant to move on from the Rhino reissues because I am greedy and they sound really good too.
MikeH
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Sometimes ya just wanna listen to a 33 and get up every 15-20 minutes instead of every 10 minutes! I think I only have the rhino of Blues for Allah
MikeH
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In Karl We Trust ©®™
Joe Mac
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FremerLovesMp3s
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Karl > Chad
MikeH
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Karl 2024
Russ I
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What are the chances of being wowed by an audiophile jazz pressing? We've had Music Matters Jazz, SRX vinyl, Mobile Fidelity, Tone Poets, Acoustic Sounds, and any number of other labels/projects/formulations to raise our expectations and consistently hit that audio sweet spot. Well, today I received and played the Kirsten Edkins album from Kevin Gray's Cohearent Records label and I'll be damned if I wasn't blown away by the sound. Absolutely 3-dimensional, with every instrument having its own clearly defined space in the mix, and I don't mean just "right" or "left" or "center-left," I'm talking about closing your eyes and having the studio space and its players come to life in a holographic kind of way. On top of that, every instrument sounds real enough to literally be in the room. The cymbals are incredibly life-like, as if there weren't microphones and tape machines and mixers and cutting heads between you and that sound. The bass lines can be felt as they thump their way across the floor; the piano is resonant, centered but seeming to come from behind the other players. And then there's the sax. I play sax, and while I can't come close to doing what musicians like Edkins are capable of, I do know what a sax sounds like when you're in the room with it, and that's what I hear on this record. I typically have problems distinguishing the finer qualities of sound from recording to recording or system to system, but if I were auditioning speakers (or any part of a rig) and heard what came through my system today, all attempts at comparison would end and I'd be loading them into my car. So I guess I'm saying I think Boom Boom knocked it out of the park with this one, and I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been more attention paid here to this release. Oh, and the performances are absolutely worthy of their presentation, as I'm sure Kevin knew going in.
EDIT: Guess I should add, though it probably goes without saying: the record is flat and dead quiet.
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EDIT: Guess I should add, though it probably goes without saying: the record is flat and dead quiet.
Kirsten Edkins - Shapes & Sound
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2023 Vinyl release of "Shapes & Sound" on Discogs.
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MikeH
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Mine is still sitting waiting to be played. Haven’t had a chance to spin it on my main bc system yet with the baby and then in laws were here for a week and a half. Hoping to give it a listen todayWhat are the chances of being wowed by an audiophile jazz pressing? We've had Music Matters Jazz, SRX vinyl, Mobile Fidelity, Tone Poets, Acoustic Sounds, and any number of other labels/projects/formulations to raise our expectations and consistently hit that audio sweet spot. Well, today I received and played the Kirsten Edkins album from Kevin Gray's Cohearent Records label and I'll be damned if I wasn't blown away by the sound. Absolutely 3-dimensional, with every instrument having its own clearly defined space in the mix, and I don't mean just "right" or "left" or "center-left," I'm talking about closing your eyes and having the studio space and its players come to life in a holographic kind of way. On top of that, every instrument sounds real enough to literally be in the room. The cymbals are incredibly life-like, as if there weren't microphones and tape machines and mixers and cutting heads between you and that sound. The bass lines can be felt as they thump their way across the floor; the piano is resonant, centered but seeming to come from behind the other players. And then there's the sax. I play sax, and while I can't come close to doing what musicians like Edkins are capable of, I do know what a sax sounds like when you're in the room with it, and that's what I hear on this record. I typically have problems distinguishing the finer qualities of sound from recording to recording or system to system, but if I were auditioning speakers (or any part of a rig) and heard what came through my system today, all attempts at comparison would end and I'd be loading them into my car. So I guess I'm saying I think Boom Boom knocked it out of the park with this one, and I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been more attention paid here to this release. Oh, and the performances are absolutely worthy of their presentation, as I'm sure Kevin knew going in.
EDIT: Guess I should add, though it probably goes without saying: the record is flat and dead quiet.
Kirsten Edkins - Shapes & Sound
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2023 Vinyl release of "Shapes & Sound" on Discogs.
Russ I
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I think it’s safe to say you’ll find it worth the wait.
Hemotep
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Post in thread 'What's Spinning' https://www.needlesandgrooves.com/threads/whats-spinning.5/post-688744
AnthonyI
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WOOT! Confirmation receivedGood to hear, fingers crossed here
MikeH
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WOOT! Confirmation received
AnthonyI
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That APP always tempts me, while an OG sounds fantastic and isn't really that expensive, a clean copy has been a pain to find crate digging.MoFi restocks incoming:
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JonnyH
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Big same.