What are you currently listening to (Classical)?
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For sure. big fan of Haydn so not as much of a leap for me. My great collection of classical: Bach, Handel, Haydn for sure.
The Quatuor Mosaïques Haydn String Quartet recordings have been in my CD collection for 25-30 years and are amazing. Nobody is likely to be disappointed with those.
HIP, but I very seriously doubt you'd be disappointed if you give them a try. These are exactly the kind of HIP's that appeal to even those most averse to the wiry, thin, vibratoless string playing of many early music ensembles.
Try the Mosaïques' in the Op. 20 "Sun Quartets". The sound is gorgeous too.
A long time replying to this but I only got my replacement on Friday 21st October as I only order from Acoustic Sounds twice per year (but each order is large containing a dozen or more LPs). Anyway, the replacement as I anticipated is perfect. No pitch issues and a flawless pressing. The sound is not only much better than the relatively mushy and flaccid sounding Mackee attempt (even ignoring the pitch problems with the latter) but easily as good as the work Ryan Smith has done with the American-produced series of RCA Living Stereo titles. Furthermore the sound is better than the original Classic Records pressings made when Bernie Grundman originally performed the mastering and disk cutting all those years ago.
It goes to show how important the actual pressing process and pressing plant is in the final sound quality and I'll go so far as to say I honestly have no real understanding of why Chad wants to have these remastered at all if he is in possession of the original metal parts or at least un-used fathers and mothers. I think all titles were remastered by Bernie Grundman many years ago (I will have to double check) and obviously the metal parts must still exist - at least for the two flawed titles. To me it just seems a massive waste of money to go remastering them when there is honestly nothing wrong with the original Grundman masters. I'd just be happy to buy new pressings made by Quality Record Pressings instead.
Link below is a 90 second comparison between the Mackee mastering and the much older Grundman one now being used as a replacement to the former. Note that I have used professional pitch-correction software to remove the wow issues with the Mackee effort. Without that software correction it sounds like a well-used Crossley turntable. The Grundman one is "untouched", just as it was when it entered the inputs of my analogue to digital converter
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In any case it could well be that the tapes are now in Europe which would make shipping them to the US expensive or even prohibited given how careful custodians are these days of original tapes. My view is that if Chad really wants to remaster the remaining titles again (perhaps he will be forced to because lack of original parts) then perhaps he is better off sending them to Sean Magee at Abbey Road who does absolutely top notch work equal to the best around these days and is infact currently doing a lot of fully-analogue reissue work for Decca as it is.
By the way, the deadwax on the replacement LP has both the original inscription by Grundman plus a new inscription directly below it indicating that is also the "new" Analogue Productions product.
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Another new vinyl reissue I got last week. Side one is 37 minutes long - that is the longest LP side I own. Somehow it works, though side 1 is unavoidably about 6 dB down in level compared to side 2! Great sound and a great performance. The last movement is an incredible piece of composition.
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