Mingus Ah Um by Mofi

When you get up around $125- or even when you don’t, any time sound quality is paramount- save your money and look for it at Better Records. A White Hot Mingus does cost substantially more. However it sounds so much better its hard to believe.

millercarbon5,116 posts07-10-2020 1:58pmWhen you get up around $125- or even when you don’t, any time sound quality is paramount- save your money and look for it at Better Records. A White Hot Mingus does cost substantially more. However it sounds so much better its hard to believe.

I tend to disagree with you more often than not and here is yet another example. 

And your point is... that you tend to be wrong a lot?

How many White Hot Stampers have you heard?

I’m gonna say: zero. Which makes me... right again.

If you had you would’ve said so. Right yet again. So you took a shot at me for no good reason and fell flat on your face.

Hope it was worth it. Oh well. I enjoyed it. More than you. At least we can agree on that much.

So guys, isn't this a matter of opinion, not right and wrong?  And neither of you has heard all the same issues or re-issues of Mingus-Ah-Um about which you are fretting, much less on the same system, so there is no common ground.  I have an original copy in mint condition AND a mint copy of the 1995 re-issue by Classic Records.  Both are superb in SQ, and we can all agree the music is exceptional.  Mingus said
Tijuana Moods was his best work, but I prefer Mingus-Ah-Um.   Because of what I have, I would not be tempted to spend $125 on yet another re-issue, but any jazz aficionado should have at least one copy or another of this great recording in his or her collection.

Some here continue to make big claims in absence of actual experience with the product/s in question.

I have an original with a couple distinct noisy areas so I preordered the one-step and can’t wait to hear it. 

I have what I think is an important question.

The original CBS release of these sessions had reverb added to it via (IIRC) something like the "reverb room" in the basement of the studio. When Mosaic Records did their exhaustive release of the Mingus CBS sessions many years ago, the question of how best to recreate this effect was an important consideration and choice of the production team. I think the reverb was added judiciously into the master mix when cutting the final master.

If this new MoFi release is direct from the original master tapes then they might not have any of this reverb. So, for those of you who have heard this MoFi release, do they have the reverb, like the original? Or is this release "dry" from the standpoint of the sound?

Can anyone care to comment?