Most of those Unplugged CDs are sonically great. What did those people who recorded them know that nobody else seems to know?
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Frank Zappa Absolutely Free. On cassette. Not for the squeamish.
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Cassettes, you know, the medium with air AND dynamics. The Doors Morrison Hotel K7, The Stones Let it Bleed on DECCA, paper label. Stones Sticky Fingers the Bob Ludwig remaster. Holy ____! Am using The Mystery Tweak for cassettes. 🤗
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I wish I could. If I told you it wouldn’t be a mystery any more, would it?
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Cassettes. Stones’ Dirty Work, a classic example of a great Stones recording, on Chrome tape. Super Dynamic Range. Includes the instant hit, Had it With You. Steve Lillywhite producer. Also, U2 Achtung Baby, recorded in a castle. Yeah, Baby!
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YouTube on new iPad and headphones - Live at Woodstock, Canned Heat On the Road Again and Ten Years After Goin Home. Whoa! Dude! |
It’s Only Rock and Roll, cassette, Bob Ludwig remaster XDR Virgin. Mystery tweak of course. Also Michael Jackson Bad. Super Dynamic and clean as a colon just before colon exam.
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Cassettes again, sigh. Beck Odelay HX PRO, Goat’s Head Soup Bob Ludwig remaster on Virgin
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Off the beaten track, on YouTube on my new iPad, MC5 live Ramblin’ Rose/Kick out the Jams, George Harrison tribute concert with the absolutely amazing guitar of Prince on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Johnny Winter live at Woodstock, Canned Heat On the Road Again at Woodstock. Excellent sound with plain old vintage Sony earbuds or whatever they’re called.
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On iPad Country Joe and Fish, live at Woodstock. Gimme an F! That feller Fish sure plays a mean guitar. Live at Monterey Pop ain’t chopped liver.
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The Cure, Paris digalog Cassette + It’s Only Rock and Roll, Virgin XDR cassette, Bob Ludwig remaster 1994
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Timbuk 3 first album on cassette HiQ. Holy Guacamole!! Mystery tweak as always now, anti vibration. Also The Cure Standing on a Beach, awesome!
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More cassettes, damped shells with Mystery Tweak, Led Zeppelin first album, paper label - the analog cassette, the way it was intended 😁 and All Things Must Pass (songs for the coronavirus?)
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For a second I thought you were going to say Taylor Swift. 🙀 🎃
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stereo5, that gives me great comfort. 😛
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Moby Grape, Best of, cassette and Roxy Music For Your Pleasure, cassette
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Spirit Chaser, Dead Can Dance, cassette, great to hear some uncompressed stuff for a change.
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Country Joe and the Fish, I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag, Vanguard Mid-line digital cassette. Stupendous dynamic range.
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Rolling Stones’ Some Girls, cassette, XDR Virgin Records. Classic Stones. Strange, but dynamic range, details and separation seems much better than CD or LP. Interesting.
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Magical Mystery Tour, cassette, Capitol XDR, Led Zeppelin IV, 1986 cassette, Atlantic reissue
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Kraftwerk Electric Cafe, WB cassette. Donovan Hurdy Gurdy Man, Epic cassette. So sweet!
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Led Zeppelin first, cassette, paper label. Whoa, Daddy!
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Led Zeppelin II, cassette. Digitally remastered by Jimmy Page. Unbelievable.
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Now and Zen cassette, Kraftwerk Computer World, cassette. Dynamics! Word. Mystery Tweak for Cassettes as per usual.
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Ziggy Stardust, cassette, RYKO, digitally remastered. Whoa, Daddy!
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Hey, me, too! Getting to the Point. Coinkidink!
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Joan Jett The Hit List, in which she covers Hendrix, The Doors, AC/DC, Chambers Brothers, ZZ Top, others. Cassette. Hellacious. |
The Real McCaw, Graham Parker (cassette) and Disraeli Gears, clamshell case paper label.
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Savoy Brown, Getting to the Point. Cassette. Is it live or is it Memorex?
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“For this medium.” That’s pretty funny. I can’t give my CDs away fast enough. 😬 Nice to see you think cassettes have potential. |
Story of The Clash, DJ cassette. Best of Grateful Dead, DJ cassette from India. Oh, my!
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Die Walkure, Solti, on CD, whilst auditioning new Dark Matter. Whoa, Daddy!
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Brothers in Arms, cassette, Vertigo, chrome. That’s what I’m talking about.
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Savoy Brown, Looking In, CD, good test for new Dark Matter. Also, interestingly, the Robert Ludwig DSD 2002 CD of Between the Buttons. Wow! Talk about restoring the bass frequencies!
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Pink Ampex clamshell Cassette of Led Zeppelin Presence. Saints preserve us! The wheels were a little stuck, no big surprise, it’s 44 years old, a drop of Rock n Roll Gold bike lube (The King of Lube) fixed me right up. Hmmm, ferrite tape sounds great after all this time. Who woulda thought? Low distortion and dynamic range up the wazoo. Tremendous bass structure. Guess what? No tape hiss. Moral of the story: don’t play cruddy cassettes, play good ones.
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Their Satanic Majesties Request, cassette, abkco digitally remastered from original master recording, Chrome. Sweet fancy Moses! You have to pay to play. On with the show, Good health to you! |
Beck’s Mellow Gold. CD. Yeah, baby!
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Michael Jackson Bad, cassette, BASF tape, paper label. Cassettes like this don’t grow on trees, ya know. |
New Order Power Lies Coruption, cryo’d at lab, Savoy Brown A Step Further
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Mapleshade CD - Harp, Steel and Guts. 2002. Great.
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Highway 61 Revisited, CD, DSD, NDM
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Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, CD, NDM
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bang, bang you’re Terry Reid, CD, NDM. Gobs of air! |
The Who Sell Out, HiQ HX PRO cassette MCA, Doors L.A. Woman pre-bar code Elektra cassette. Pro Walkman cassette player on Omega E Mat for one month. |
The Beastie Boys’ License to Ill. Yeah, baby.
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All queued up - Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique, Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
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Greetings from Timbuk3, I.R.S. cassette |
Beastie Boys’ Hello Nasty. Yeah, buddy!
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