So your record would be #170 in the second pressing?
Analogue Productions New Doors LA Woman Vinyl Disc
Last week I responded to a post on Audiogon comparing MFSL Ultradisc/1-Step recordings to Analogue Production UHQR recordings (https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/mofi-v-s-uhqr). Initially I thought the reference in this post to a new AP pressing of The Doors LA Women was a reference to the 45rpm release of this disc in 2012 (mastered by Doug Sax and limited to 2,500 pressings). I then reread the information about this new UHQR disc and realized this is a very special reissue of the recording, mastered by Bernie Grundman (cut at 33 1/3 ) and made from the original analog master tapes. Also pressed with extreme care, top quality vinyl and hand inspected for quality. No wonder this is a $125 disc (+tax and shipping). Apparently limited to 4,500 pressings, with each stamper replaced after 1,000 pressings. So last week I ordered the disc before the release date (August 19) and received the disc yesterday (#1170). Played it last night for the first time. To say I was blown away with the SQ would be an understatement, I honestly thought I was listening to a master tape! TT is a Michell Engineering GyroDec with SME IV and Clearaudio Maestro V2 Ebony cartridge. I actually own several AP, and other, master tape copies (2T recorded at 15ips on 1/4 tape), I therefore know how good master tape copies can sound.
I honestly don’t know how a 53 year old recording can sound this good on a 33 1/3 vinyl disc, simply mind blowing! Surface noise was non existent, dynamic range was outstanding as was frequency response. Overall, the best vinyl pressing I have ever heard. I also own the original AP 45rpm pressing of this recording and intend to compare the two recordings tonight. From what I can remember there is a night and day difference between the two recordings. Also worth mentioning, packaging and associated printed material for the new disc is simply outstanding, as good as it gets IMHO.
I honestly don’t know how a 53 year old recording can sound this good on a 33 1/3 vinyl disc, simply mind blowing! Surface noise was non existent, dynamic range was outstanding as was frequency response. Overall, the best vinyl pressing I have ever heard. I also own the original AP 45rpm pressing of this recording and intend to compare the two recordings tonight. From what I can remember there is a night and day difference between the two recordings. Also worth mentioning, packaging and associated printed material for the new disc is simply outstanding, as good as it gets IMHO.
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I’m 67 years old and the music of my youth is fabulous. But it is just as sad as can be that these reissue companies keep digging up old music as if no music of value and interest has been created in the last ten years. I suppose some of it has to do with the aging audiophile demographic. Not to say that the recent Linkin Park one steps have no value, but even that music looks like it is from a previous generation. Though at least it is from this century. YMMV. What we really need is another reissue of Kind Of Blue. |
noromance I believe you are correct, number 170 from the second stamper. |
Appreciate your impressions. I can’t wait to compare the two copies in my system. I ordered my copy of LA Women UHQR as soon as it was announced, hence end up with serial #0020. The AP 45RPM version is no slouch but I find MoFi One Step and UHQR pressing are definitively better than any previous versions. Kind of Blue is already available in UHQR pressing in 1 or 2 LP version. I highly recommend picking one of those up. |
@viridian: I recognized your post as tongue-in-cheek, and appreciated the levity Just for the record (ha), your original pressing of Kind Of Blue contains one LP side cut with the tempo and pitch of the instruments different from what the musicians were actually playing. During mastering of the album for Classic Records back in the late-90’s, Bernie Grundman discovered the fact that on one day of the 2-day recording sessions for the album, the tape recorder was running at a slightly incorrect speed. All previous pressings (prior to the Classic Records issue) had the songs on one side of the LP playing at a wrong tempo and musical pitch. It’s amazing no one had previously noticed!
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Oh, I know that, chapter and verse. Fortunately, I am not saddled with perfect pitch. Many Japanese potters put an intentional flaw into their pots, as nothing must be perfect. I find that the flaws, primarily of recording, but also of pressing and mastering, to be an integral part of the finished art. I get to hear the record as the people who bought the record when it first came out heard it, and that is just perfect for me. YMMV. But there is only one original. And musical appreciation is a big tent. There is room for all of us...even for audiophiles. |
@viridian: "But there is only one original." Well, actually..... Since discovering Discogs, and reading the Hoffman Forums, the matter of pressing plants has "unfortunately" come to my attention. Even first pressings from different plants can sound different from one another, and pressings from the same plant but from different points in any given pressing mother stamper’s "life" can differ. Oy!
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