Well in that case, I've got a 1972 US stereo repress with green label and blue text on the jacket.
Sadly, it's much worse with concert tickets.
Well the next one will have bigger pressing numbers so hopefully that means more people will be able to get a copy.
Thanks. Picked this one up. Mastered by Kevin Gray, pressed at Optimal. Has rave reviews on Discogs. Totally worth $20. No mention if its AAA though
I believe that if it has KG@ATM in the runout it's AAA. If it's KG@CA it's digital sources on this title. But even the digital sourced one sounds awesome.
If it's this copy from 2015, its KPG@ATM. Guess those are the same plates they used to press this album at RTI in 2008.
The issue with the listing is that a bunch of different pressings have the same UPC I believe, so no telling what you get on this or Astral Weeks until you open it in most cases for the black version. Worth a shot with Amazon's return policy though. I think I bought this from Popmarket since it claimed to be the AAA version based on the date but it ended up being the KG@CA one. ended up not returning it though since i think i paid under $15 for it and it sounded great.
Total noob question. What’s the difference between KG@ATM and KG@CA?
Are you asking the difference between the two in general or specifically in regards these Moondance records? In general it’s the place where the album was mastered ATM is AcousTech Masterng and CA is Cohearent Audio.
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Hoffman supposedly got fired from MCA for stealing master tapes which later got him banned from being given any Universal tapes. Since they are one of the huge labels, his career was effectively over. There were also those who thought that Hoffman was riding KG’s coattails and KG was the reason why stuff like the DCCs sounded so good.Acoustech Mastering closed & KG set up Coahearant. I sort of had an assumption that he kept the same mastering suite, does anyone know if that's correct? I've also assumed that it was a split between Hoffman & KG, & he basically went out on his own. I don't really know what the story is there, but does Hoffman even do any mastering anymore?
I know there was a lot of chat about the cable upgrade in the mastering chain prior to setting up Coherent & saw this post for Joe Harley in 2007. I think this is why I assumed he uses the same mastering suite. But 2007 seems like a long time ago, maybe I'm confusing different stories
Upgrading Connections at AcousTech Mastering
It goes without saying that there are many controversies and debates in the perfectionist audio/LP collector market. But one area of near universal...
I don't know if it was just a rumor or not, but supposedly the FBI raided his house after some master tapes went missing. And he had also been splicing in pieces of copy tape into original master tapes. The whole thing has a sense of mystery to it and not 100% sure what went down, but the last time he regularly worked was back in 1993 according to discogs. Some people say Hoffman was the fall guy for some failed deal with Buddy Holly's estate (Hoffman was rumored to try to sell off some of Holly's master tapes to a third party). I think the Hoffman cult tried to wage war with Wikipedia to get them to take down certain stuff about Steve.
Did you get a chance to listen to it already? How does cowgirl in the sand sounds for you?
