Traffic - Traffic (UK 1st Pink Island Stereo) Black Sabbath - Paranoid (UK 1st Vertigo Swirl) Status Quo - Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon (UK 1st Pye)
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust (especially the original UK RCA 6E/4E pressing which sounds best of them all IMHO)
Boston US Wally/AZ Don't Look Back US Wally Third Stage US Masterdisk EM These mark quite a difference from their compact disc counterpart
Ziggy had a deliberate almost low fi vibe to it. I think the latest remasters are fine for what its worth, but I think we need to consider the original artistic intention which was not audiophile to say the least.
REM - Automatic For The People Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad Mark Knopfler - The Ragpicker's Dream Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La ...on my system...only because I recently compared out of curiosity when exercising my new DAC...the ceedees do sound good, though. During this exercise, I had several other LP's that really were not appreciably better than my ceedee version in my system (says a lot for the DAC), but that's maybe a different thread. I have a couple hundred ceedees in storage replaced with LPs, but it's been many system changes ago since any sort of useful comparison.
NetherLands-Dan Fogelberg Bustin Out-Pure Prairie League..............even the one I have on DynaFlex sounds better than the cd
Buy Machine Gun on SACD or vinyl without worry. I would say that "Live at the Fillmore East" is due for an overhaul...but the likelihood is that the dream of having almost every note from those 4 shows may just come true, which would explain why they've not done anything with it. I mean, they Released the first show. Maybe they've fixed some of the recording issues in the 2nd show? I know the songs on WCSB sound GREAT...
I will. Thanks. I can't keep track of the differences between East and MG, but I know the latter is very good.
For obvious reasons - same with Icky Thump. LAFE - Comp of all 4 nights, very little overlap w/BOG album (get the full Voodoo Child>We Gotta Live Together). Released 20 years ago (!) Is terribly squashed with NR and limting/compression but you can s still actually crank it Machine Gun - 1st show in it's entirety. Audiophile mastering, pressed at QRP. Buy it now.
This 1985 copy of Ziggy I picked up in 1997 (for $4.99 as I recall) is one of my first vinyl records: David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars Since I bought this, I have added about 700 LPs to my collection and I still consider this to be in my top 10-20 best sounding LPs; I am relistening now to confirm. I can't speak for what Bowie intended, but for me this album defines a blueprint for what a hifi experience is. I am very interested to hear about anything you know about this album with respect to its lowfi intentions! If Bowie intended this to be lowfi I think he really screwed up.
Way too many to list. A majority of albums from the 60's and 70's. Especially early pressings of vintage albums.
With Ken Scott engineering it wasn't likely to be low fi was it? I don't think the concept of retro lo-fi had been invented in 1972 with the aim being to continuously improve recording quality.
I would disregard the low-fi idea. It is by no means a low-fi recording. Spectacularly fidelious & spacious is more like it. There could be poor masterings of it, but low-fi it is not.
I picked up Ma Kelly recently. The Burgundy translucent one (1st). It does sound very raw and nasty (in a good way).
