"The Genius Of Ray Charles", one of the greatest albums ever recorded, one of the worst sounding..

Would a super duper high end needle drop of the tube cut of "The Genius Of Ray Charles" be good enough to master from that? Some of the SUN stuff from Elvis is NOT from tape source and sounds very good.

 

Not these days, at least not at any of the thrift shops or record stores I've been too. Of course you never know when one may pop up.

In the mean time I play the MFSL. It sounds much better than the Atlantic stereo CD. So my quest for an early stereo LP begins...

 

Mine is a third pressing I guess the matrix numbers are stamped STA 59161 3S and STA 59162 3S. The label is pink, white and brown stripes. It's been a while since I listened to it but I don't remember it sounding that great.

Chad

 

I can check on the SACD package when I get home, but I am 99% sure he did master it.

 

Some of us aren't at home, and don't recall what version we have!

 

Since it is already 7.30 pm here in Athens, I am at home and checked that indeed Rob LoVerde mastered the Mofi SACD.

 

that sounds like it might be an RCA record club pressing...

 

That's what the website says, but there is nothing on the sleeve or label to indicate that it's a RCA record club pressing.

Chad

 

Yup, for one of that period there likely wouldn't be any note or sticker on the jacket ... the giveaway is the incorrect-color labels (those are the Atco stereo colors) and the 3s at the end of the stamper numbering. There are a bunch of Atlantic titleswith those wrong color labels that are RCA pressings dating from the late '60s.

 

My record is the same as your record, except 1S/1S. Doesn't sound very good.

 

Post #10 in this thread gives great detail to the answer of this question!

 

Here's one minute from my copy, the record depicted in my current avatar. Late 1960s RCA club pressing, stamped matrix STA-59161-4S (mis-stamped 58161, with the 8 having a dash through it and the correct 9 stamped directly above it).

https://www.box.com/s/rnsimdg0crvpiebukqww

 

That's how my 1S/1S, with all that distortion.

 

If MoFi is reissuing the mono version, why not have Audio Fidelity release the stereo version (preferably on hybrid SACD)? I'd buy them both.

 

That would be awesome!

 

I went to check my copy of this to see what I had ... and I don't have one! I certainly did at one point, so it musta been trashed and I re-homed it. At least now I know what version to look for.

 

Sigh, that's the same one I have too. The matrix codes are machine stamped. I've wondered why it was so inferior to my other Atlantc Ray Charles albums.

 

I have a NM copy of this classic with the MG number hand written in the deadwax......I have yet to spin this using the Fisher 800-c, but perhaps I will do that this weekend.

 

Hi,
I was thinking getting the Rhino LP. Is it the mono or the stereo version? How good does it sound? I saw one comment earlier in the post, but no comments on the quality of the sound. If it is stereo, is it hard panned stereo? I'm only familiar with the MFSL mono version.
Thanks!

 

GREAT too see you using my fave term "wet"!
"Save the Liquidity"
Ha, ha!!

King Oliver's "Wa-Wa-Wa":

 

And Tom Dowd and Bill Schwartau had real mikes to work with instead of that awful pallophotophone!