@rauliruegas - thanks for the feednback. I took a look at stockfish and they seem to take great care in their master production processes, which should provide a great pressing.
I’ll keep my eyes open for them - we have a very good vinyl store close by, with a very good selection of labels
I do have a couple of Teldec recordings myself and I agree, they are well produced and pressed
Jeton is another label that excels in producing a very well recorded/engineered pressing.
But one thing I find strange, is when a company like Tacet, puts an amazing amount of effort into the recording/mixing of the music and selecting the best location for a recording, but then fails to produce a good vinyl master...
- their attention to detail in the mastering of the recording is second to none, by using the best microphones, analog reel-to-reel recorders and pre-amplification
- While the pressing quality is very good from a surface noise and lack of warp perspective, they fail to deliver as follows...
- it seems that they try to get too much music onto each side of the album,
- the grooves are too close together and as such in the quieter parts of a track, you can actually hear the music "bleeding through" from the adjacent groove..
- unfortunately, this becomes very annoying once you experience it. because you know its coming so you listen for it
- and because theri surface noise is so low, the amount of bleed through seems to be accentuated
- I can only summize that their primary playback medium is the CD - very sad
The best regular, i.e. "normal weight" pressings, I have are from Deutsche Grammophon, who seems to be very consistent at producing a well engineered/mixed quality pressing without the need for going to the expense of thicker vinyl - why can’t other labels do this?
Regards - Steve