What's Spinning Tonight?

What is it that you are spinning tonight?

 

 

 

 

Nils Frahm : All Melody

 

Sounds pretty good on R2R...



Hope you have a nice weekend with lots of music...

 

A late night session with more Hatikwa☝:

/ Jk

 

 

 

 

On the Ascona Neo this morning☝:

Jean-Michel Jarre - Revolutions, originally from 1988. This however is the reissue from 2018.

Don’t know what the reissue recording team has done, but obviously not their best day at work. I can’t use the RIAA EQ curve on this album, as it sounds like having a drapery infront of my speakers !!

Lucky me, I have the opportunity to use a different EQ curve on this album. D.G.G. (Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft) is the way to go here, as it opens up this album and let it shine in its full glory. Rich and full sound. Clear and full upper end without being sharp, a great midrange, calm and sweet, yet very powerful. Bass is not overwhelming, but definitely fast and tight. So Enjoy Folks !

/ Jk

 

 

 

 

 

On the Ascona Neo this morning☝:

Jean-Michel Jarre - Revolutions, originally from 1988. This however is the reissue from 2018.

Don’t know what the reissue recording team has done, but obviously not their best day at work. I can’t use the RIAA EQ curve on this album, as it sounds like having a drapery infront of my speakers !!

Lucky me, I have the opportunity to use a different EQ curve on this album. D.G.G. (Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft) is the way to go here, as it opens up this album and let it shine in its full glory. Rich and full sound. Clear and full upper end without being sharp, a great midrange, calm and sweet, yet very powerful. Bass is not overwhelming, but definitely fast and tight. So Enjoy Folks !

/ Jk

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The issue may be with the recording EQ and format. The original was 1988 which there might be a possibility that it was originally recorded in analog and the remaster was digital.
If you have a original production CD then you can A/B it against the original LP vs the remastered LP.

Just my opinion.

 

The issue may be with the recording EQ and format. The original was 1988 which there might be a possibility that it was originally recorded in analog and the remaster was digital.
If you have a original production CD then you can A/B it against the original LP vs the remastered LP.

Just my opinion.

Hi Greg,

It might very well be the case. I don’t have either the original CD or the original vinyl, so difficult making a comparison. However, the way I solve this problem / or getting around it is breathtaking. It works really really well and you won’t notice if you don’t know what’s been done, it’s that good. I guess I’m a lucky guy, having the possibility to optimize even lesser quality recordings into something fantastic.

 

Hi Greg,

It might very well be the case. I don’t have either the original CD or the original vinyl, so difficult making a comparison. However, the way I solve this problem / or getting around it is breathtaking. It works really really well and you won’t notice if you don’t know what’s been done, it’s that good. I guess I’m a lucky guy, having the possibility to optimize even lesser quality recordings into something fantastic.

Certain recordings that I've acquired since buying a my first CD player in 2006 is that unless you're familiar with the original analog recording then digital remaster might fool you into thinking that you've got a better recording because it's a remaster.

I used to have all original Beatles records but swapped them out for remastered digital copies.
I also have 2 best of Beatles records that were remastered from the original analog tapes so I can compare tracks but happily they all sound great. I have the original Rolling Stones " Hot Rocks" greatest hits LP and compared it to the digital remastered LP version and the digital version suffered a loss of dynamics. This is one of the reasons why I use solid state for analog and tubes for digital. Digital is still a bit forward sounding so tubes push the sound back a bit and smooth everything out for a nice organic sound, or something like that... lol

My current components are very resolving and will easily reveal any short comings with regard to sound.

 

 

Greg @A-Line , most of what you play I have not heard or seen ever… I’m not ignoring, but will comment whenever I know what the heck you’re playing… LOL.. no affends ! ! !

/ Jk

 

Greg @A-Line , most of what you play I have not heard or seen ever… I’m not ignoring, but will comment whenever I know what the heck you’re playing… LOL.. no affend ! ! !

/ Jk

No worries.

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