What are you listening to right now?

pumpkinman · January 29, 2015, 03:24:04 AM

The Moon Without Earth

tmazz · February 02, 2015, 05:13:29 PM

Kenny Dorham: Quiet Kenny

OJC/Prestige CD

richidoo · February 02, 2015, 06:47:05 PM

Mmmm, I like that one.

StereoNut · February 02, 2015, 07:07:12 PM

Fabulous story...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M0TDAWcuRo

SN

pumpkinman · February 04, 2015, 01:04:32 PM

Billy Preston ~ Organ Transplant

tmazz · February 04, 2015, 08:38:29 PM

The Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Fantasy CD

richidoo · February 06, 2015, 07:01:27 AM

tmazz · February 12, 2015, 05:00:51 PM

Ray Brown: Soular Energy

Concord CD

tmazz · February 12, 2015, 05:05:14 PM

Judy Collins: Both Sides Now - The Very Best of

Wildflower 2 CD set

tmazz · February 16, 2015, 07:52:02 PM

Porcupine Tree: In Absentia

Lava/Atlantic CD

tmazz · February 16, 2015, 08:34:42 PM

Torsten Nilsson: Cantate Domino

Proprius/ FIM LP

This long time audiophile benchmark LP has now been released by First Impressions Music (FIM) as a 200g flat profile UHQR type pressing manufactured for them at Chad Kassem's Quality Record Pressings plant.

First of the LP itself is perfectly flat and dead quiet, not a click or pop anywhere. That is all well and good, but what about the SQ?

My reference pressing for this LP has always been the Audio Source 1/2 speed mastered version that was pressed in Japan. Compared to that the FIM pressing has a larger soundstage (laterally anyway, the height rendering is roughly the same on my system), more detail in terms of hall sound a and a more well defined sense of space around the individual voices (you get much more of a sense of each singer as opposed the sound of a massed chorus.However, the new version has less of a sense of warmth that the Audio Source Half Speed. So over all I would think that some folks will like it better and others will prefer the old version. (kind of like a tubes vs SS thing)

Myself, I can appreciate the attributes of each one and think I will need to listen to them a few more time before I can say which one I prefer on an overall basis. It may end up being one of those cases where it just depends on what kind of mood I am in at the time.

To each his own.......

Brap · February 17, 2015, 05:44:36 AM

Soular Energy -- most excellent.

Chet Baker -- The Touch of your Lips

rollo · February 17, 2015, 07:51:06 AM

Quote from: tmazz on February 12, 2015, 05:00:51 PM
Ray Brown: Soular Energy

Concord CD

What no LP.

charles

tmazz · February 17, 2015, 09:05:33 AM

Quote from: rollo on February 17, 2015, 07:51:06 AM
Quote from: tmazz on February 12, 2015, 05:00:51 PM
Ray Brown: Soular Energy

Concord CD

What no LP.

charles

Of course I do.

I have an original Concord pressing. But sometimes the conveience of CDs wins out if I am not doing a formal sit down listening session.

rollo · February 17, 2015, 09:13:58 AM

OK just checking. The reissue is the Cat's meow. red vinyl to boot oh my !!

charles