SH Spotlight The Official "Steve's Recommended CDs & LPs He Did Not Master" Thread*

Vinyl.

http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?p=3770991#post3770991

 

Beach Boys - Pastmasters
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=41717

 

I copied the list from here:
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=2637205&postcount=181

Just go to this link and click on it.

 

From a thread on OJC.
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=703649&postcount=4
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=2822070&postcount=19

 

Prefers JVC?
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=4580981&postcount=2

 

ORG Release of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers:

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=233070

 

The old thread is archived, and so can't be quoted; that's the only way I know of preserving those links live in one bunch. At least we know where it is again.

 

Here's the list with working links:


Abba - All CDs on Atlantic
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=78914&postcount=4

Animals - Singles Plus
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=933285&postcount=6

Beach Boys - The Best of the Beach Boys - Capitol CDP 7913182 (It has the boys singing in the studio on the cover)
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1218176&postcount=6

Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Explorations, Sunday at the Village Vanguard, How My Heart Sings!, Moon Beams, Bill Evans Trio at Shelly's Manne-Hole - XRCDs (not great, but good according to Steve)
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?p=2493541#post2493541

Blind Faith - S/T - MFSL
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1553519&postcount=2

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding - Original Columbia CD CK 9604 70097
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=705847&postcount=1

Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees - MFSL
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=4939&postcount=5

Cannonball Adderley in San Francisco - OJC CD
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1431554&postcount=14

Carole King - Tapestry - Stereo & MC SACD (the stereo program is identical)
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=804804&postcount=1
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1588306&postcount=1

Cream - Disraeli Gears - MFSL
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=227950&postcount=15
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1771890&postcount=11 - Read to post 13.

Crosby, Stills & Nash - CSN (couch) - Original 80s Barry Diament mastered CD
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=2201922&postcount=11

Derek & The Dominos - Layla - MFSL & Original Polydor CD
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=117758&postcount=2
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=118064&postcount=35

Dionne Warwick - Anthology 1962-1969 Rhino CD RNCD 75898 Released 1986.
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=54352&postcount=6

Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record - Japan first pressing 32DP473
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=106529

Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue - Palmaccio remaster/Single JPN disc (both are good, neither are perfect)
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=2390046&postcount=1
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=2390072&postcount=4

Ella Fitzgerald - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! - Verve 835-646-2
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=47276&highlight=Charlie

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - MFSL
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=679823&postcount=11
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=680785&postcount=28

Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard - MFSL
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=91279&postcount=2
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=91284&postcount=4

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - Target CD
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1380335&postcount=2

Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits - Polydor/Mercury Nashville
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=67916&postcount=3

Henry Mancini - Greatest Hits
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=59491

Jerry Lee Lewis - Classic Jerry Lee Lewis - Bear Family Box Set
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=55826&postcount=2

Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny - JVC XRCD
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=2488312&postcount=2

Love - Forever Changes - Rhino R2 76717
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=21933

Michael Jackson - Thriller - SACD
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=17852&postcount=39

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue - SACD
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=974952&postcount=36

Otis Redding - Otis!: The Definitive Otis Redding
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=358674&postcount=13

Phil Spector - Christmas Album - Old 1963 LP
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=852092&postcount=7

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - 1983 Toshiba CD (Black Triangle? Don't ask me about TO/non-TO! )
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=210229&postcount=150

Pretenders - S/T - Target CD
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1380335&postcount=2

Procol Harum - MFSL silvers
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=20736&postcount=11

Queen - A Night At The Opera - MFSL Gold
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1659294&postcount=141

Ray Charles - Birth of Soul - 3 CD Atlantic Boxset
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=341255&postcount=2

Rock Artifacts Series
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=17024

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story - MFSL CD
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=124085&postcount=4

Rod Stewart - Never A Dull Moment - Dennis Drake Polygram
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=124085&postcount=4

Rolling Stones - Aftermath - WG London CD
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=27679&highlight=rolling+stones+aftermath+steve
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1942854&postcount=4

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers - old Columbia/Sony CD (pre Virgin remaster)
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=19794&postcount=3

Santana - S/T - Mastersound Gold
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=882549&postcount=25

Santana - Abraxas - MFSL Gold
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1659294&postcount=141

Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends - MFSL Gold
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1659294&postcount=141

Sonny Rollins - Way Out West - MFSL Silver
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=2149766&postcount=2

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions - MFSL
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=272929&postcount=2

Stevie Wonder - Love Songs
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1793988&postcount=5 - Read to post 7

Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker - The first Dorati on Mercury Living Presence stereo 1950's, The Ernest Ansermet on London/Decca stereo 1950's, The Lorin Maazel on Telarc from 1981 is an amazing performance.
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=133732&postcount=4

The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man - original Columbia CD
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=2148253&postcount=7

The Hollies - 20 Greatest Hits (with the smokestack cover) (stereo)
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=38983&highlight=hollies+hits

The Hollies - All The Hits and More (2 disc set) (mono & stereo)
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=38983&highlight=hollies+hits

The Kinks - Greatest Hits - CDKINK 7251 - PRT Records, 1985
http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=801339&postcount=39

The Rascals - The Ultimate Rascals
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=70351&postcount=44

The RCA Living Stereo SACDs.
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1573475&postcount=8

The Searchers - The Hits Collection (for those looking for the mono mixes)
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=1177605&postcount=8

Toto - IV - Stereo/MC SACD
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=27213

Traffic - Smiling Phases
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=666760&postcount=5

War - All Avenue Gold CDs
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=169783&postcount=12

 

Herb Albert- Definitive Hits, mastered by Doug Sax.

 

Isley Brothers '3 + 3' SACD:

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=223032

 

Good additions guys.

 

About the Kind of Blue SACD that is recommended. The link does'nt work for me.
But I have this disc, the first single layer SACD edition with the red label side of the disc. It's not bad, but I will not recommend it unreserved. It is something that does'nt sound right to me, the 1997 CD-remaster sound more "right", even it has lower resolution.

Well, a friend of mine has a good Classic Records Kind of Blue, and it's much better than the SACD, in mine ears. The instruments sounds fuller with more body on the Lp. And I know this SACD could sound a lot more like the Lp.

All IMO.

 

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour mono Capitol LP.

 

Fat Albert's cousin?

 

I don't have the Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard - MFSL but do have the SACD which I like a lot. How do they compare?

 

Duke Ellington - This Is Duke Ellington - RCA double LP compilation VPM-6042
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=5231532&postcount=104

Henry Mancini - Pure Gold - RCA 3667-2-R [CD] "24 minutes of heaven?"
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=150774

 

Yes, I think he was a weed dealer, hence the nick name.

 

The Hollies - 20 Golden Greats. EMI CDP 7 46238 2
The Hollies - All The Hits And More EMI CDS 7908502 (2 disk set)
The Hollies - Not The Hits Again! See For Miles SEE CD 63
The Hollies - The EP Collection See For Miles SEE CD 94
The Hollies - Epic Anthology-From The Original Master Tapes. Epic EGK 46161
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=105048&highlight=hollies

Note: the first two are already included in the list from the previous thread.

 

I seem to remember way back when that Steve said that Joe Satriani's Engines of Creation SACD sounded just like the master.

 

I read the Otis Redding thread quoted and I don't exactly see a ringing endorsement.

 

I knew who you meant of course but could not resist a bad joke.

 

I seem to recall that as well...

 

Thanks for the clarification.

 

Yes, the vinyl Cotton Club LP on Geffen. I dig this quote out every now and then when people come up with the notion that vinyl pressed from a digital source is pointless.

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=3770991