let's talk about our pressing of ALVEAR (Led Zep, AC / DC, CCR, Young ... and others ...)

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

 

Curious and fun! I own the German pressings of Sticky Fingers (A3/B3) and Exile on main street (Artisan) and found the bass to be more pronounced!?
Anyway the 10C series is amazing! Less "audiophile", more organic and sensual than the other "Hi-Fi" classics on the forum (Sticky fingers A3/B3 or EMI UK LPcent 38, Exile Artisan, Goat's head soup CBS or Deluxe (Atmos mix), Black & Blue Sterling , Tattoo you RL...etc...), I think our mysterious engineer really captured "the Stones sound". Special mention to "Exile" and "Goat's head soup"...mojo included!

 

Very good.

I tried that 'Soup' CBS vinyl release from the 1980s. For me I went back to a used copy from '73 I had of a US pressing, from Presswell I think, and preferred the sound of that stew! From what I had to choose from! . Very hard to stew stones but I think they rolled them together well!

 

My next Spanish pressing will be Tattoo you. I love side 2 so much, can't wait to hear it!

 

What no Pink Floyd album from the 10C series [...]?!

Really?!

Pink Floyd-The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Vinyl, Spain, 1979) En vente | Discogs

Pink Floyd-The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Vinyl, Spain, 1979) En vente | Discogs

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma


Pink Floyd - Soundtrack From The Film "More"

Pink Floyd - Soundtrack From The Film "More"

Pink Floyd - Soundtrack From The Film "More"

The Pink Floyd - Meddle

The Pink Floyd - Meddle

Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/16153836-Pink-Floyd-Wish-You-Were-Here

https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/16153836-Pink-Floyd-Wish-You-Were-Here

https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/2004264-Pink-Floyd-Animals

https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/1597150-Pink-Floyd-The-Wall

https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/2416130-Pink-Floyd-The-Final-Cut

 

I tried a solo Waters and Gilmour search for you too out of hope but nothing from Hispavox for them.

I do recommend the Hispavox alvear pressing of two good Who solo albums - Pete Townshend 'Empty Glass' and John Entwistle 'Too Late The Hero'

 

You will not be disappointed ! Cut stronger than my RL! More three-dimensional and more "carnal" What sublimates the listening of...the B side! ;-)

Really "in your face" too! Magnificent mastering!

 

Thank you dear friend. I plan to extend my reflection soon.

Christophe

 

Hi guys,

While waiting for other Spanish pressings of the Beatles (Revolver, Help, Blue album white album, Red album, Yellow Submarine...etc...), some HD audio samples:


THE BEATLES Magical mystery tour Cara A (spanish pressing).wav - Shared with pCloud

THE BEATLES Magical mystery tour Cara B (spanish pressing).wav - Shared with pCloud

 

Then Rubber Soul. Like the Sergeant Pepper yellow vinyl edition, this is probably the tightest stereo mastering I've heard. It's not perfect but it sounds more synergistic.

THE BEATLES Rubber soul Cara A (spanish pressing).wav - Shared with pCloud

THE BEATLES Rubber soul Cara B (spanish pressing).wav - Shared with pCloud

Enjoy !

 

Oh Dear, Christophe, I hope this doesn't turn into another Beatles thread

Looks like 3 Lennon singles from Double Fantasy are Hispavox S.A. manufactured with at least one showing a uu alvear listing. The album itself looks to have a variant in the deadwax but mastered at STERLING and possibly pressed elsewhere? Maybe only 'distibuted by Hispavox' although 1 side in the listing shows a S.90.### cat# etched in the wax.

 

Dear @dee,

Don't forget that the purpose of this thread is to discover other pressings that we rarely talk about! The discovery of Marta ALVEAR will have been decisive in moving the spirits a little. But there are still many obscure countries and engineers to promote (Piero Mannuci for example) or to discover!

Christophe

Post scriptum: This is not a new thread dedicated to the Beatles but just an interlude dedicated to their Iberian journey!

 

Hi there, I'm a couple of months late, but I just received an A8/B6 matrix with the wave symbols on both sides! It sounds stellar!

 

Assuming you bought from Discogs, I think you may have purchased the copy I was looking at ....not long after this post I checked my Discogs cart and the A8/B6 I had in there had gone ...
Oh well, you snooze you lose.

I won't be the snoozer again.

 

Actually I did buy it on Discogs, but this was a copy which was mislabelled (I think the sub said A8/B8). The seller told me it was actually a B6. I would have bought it anyway cus it was in a good shape. VG+ but with a conservative grading. To me it's EX. Keep an eye open, there will be more copies certainly I'm on the lookout for A8/B8 Led Zepp II, but tough luck for now.

 

Do not despair ! The hunt for a pressing you covet can be a very long quest. We must remain vigilant and patient. I haven't made a final decision yet wiggle but maybe I'll release some ALVEAR pressings soon. Unfortunately I checked in my collection and I no longer have Led Zeppelin l. Sorry.


Christophe

 

Please PM me if you do!

 

A difficult decision to make!

 

I return to this copy of TSRTS. Really intriguing! There are several copies of TSRTS entirely cut by Marta ALVEAR. As well as other "Hybrid" pressings, with sides signed ALVEAR, and others stamped (but probably cut by Marta). Now on my copy, 2 sides are cut stronger and particularly the one with No quarter and Starway to Heaven (as I had pointed out). Sounds warm, powerful and very loud! At least compared to the two B-sides! I don't own any other pressings of this double album, just the blu-ray of the movie...sorry! If some want to comment on their own copy, that would be interesting! I was wondering if these volume variations were originally on the tape or if it was Marta's choice? But another hypothesis would be that Marta ALVEAR cut a lot of dies, some stronger than others, and then these were mixed at the pressing plant. Simple assumption. But if so, that would mean finding all the pressings of TSRTS to piece the puzzle together!

 

Hi guys !

Seen this night this advertisement for a German pressing of Led Zeppelin ll:



Cool!

 

I hope the first American pressings are as hearty and juicy as my Spanish reissue 1979 series 10C [...]!?

 

If I put some ALVEAR records up for sale, it will probably be on EBAY.

 

Wow! Please let us know which records and when you will sell them!

 

I have a half-RL and half-PF.

 

This last week I made a new interesting discovery about the Alvear pressings.
Until last week I’ve always thought that the very early copies of the “Alvear years” (late 60’s or early 70’) were all machine stamped. Also these copies have a distinctive ring text on the label, on which letters are bigger than the copies from mid 70’s to early 80’s.
So, despite those copies sounds great (my Zeppelin II A5-B3 its a great example) and as we have discussed it’s very probably that Marta Alvear is the mastering engineer behind many of them, I had never seen one of those copies with the “wave sign” or the Alvear handwritten, so I have focused my searching mostly for the copies since the mid 70’s onwards.
But last week I found two records that have the early labels with the Marta Alvear handwritten.
Those records are: Yes-Fragile (A3-B3), and Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (A1-B1).
I bought the Yes one. Sounds fantastic. This is my third Hispavox copy of this album, and it’s the best of them.
I didn’t buy the Zeppelin copy, it has several scratches….and worth 25€!!
So, what do you think about this?
Apart from being a new chance to get new Alvear “certified” copies, could be a new clue about when Marta Alvear start working on Hispavox.
Best regards