The Hoffman/Gray re-issues from Analogue Productions and Music Matters are spectacular, and a benchmark for how an audiophile re-issue should be made and marketed. And while some pressing plants are clearly better than others, there is a general feeling that many well-meaning pressing plants are running flat-out to meet demand. In my opinion, 10 new songs suffered a bit from some wierd Pro-tools sounding stuff. Early studies on digital data quality within electronic health records revealed a long list of concerns including: incompleteness, duplication, inconsistent organization, fragmentation and an inadequate use . I mean, how difficult is it to just take the original master tape and play it and digitize it with no EQ and no compression? but when you put the record on - psshhhhpssshhhtt. Some say dub tape, some say corrected copy tape etc. As you would expect, this doesnt come cheap and while there is no obligation to donate, we would greatly appreciate anything you might send to help to sales@audiokarma.org at PayPal.com. . T68 Super Member Messages: 2,868 Location: Sweden Hi! I pinpointed the skips and examined them under my hand-held microscope and saw lots of silvery specks all over it. This program brought electronic health records to well over 80% of ambulatory physicians and virtually every hospital in the United States. I see their stuff sold here in real, reputable record stores like Jecklin and other places. The Doors, Box set from a few years ago, 192/24k digital. To my knowledge, there is no such resource anywhere on the web. Also, how about somebody starts a company to release 00's music that is remastered without the massive compression (provided it's not squashed for posterity in the mixing stage already) -- I know Arcade Fire and The National have put out some great releases, but just imagine how awesome that stuff would be if MoFi remastered it with 50% more dynamic range. Just because something's been pressed on 180 gram vinyl doesn't mean its going to sound good or that it was sourced from analog. EU law used to be sometimes quite advantageous, for umm, unofficial releases. Sometimes we get slightly fudged information. ERMITAGE Record Number: ERM 160-2 UPC: 8014394101603 Country: ITALY D/A Code: Analog CD Beethoven, Symphony #5 + Rehearsal. Subject: RE: Contact Inquiry From HDtracks. So while it's true that this LP sounds as if the movie soundtrack was being played through an old radio, I feel that the people at Doxy put their best effort on giving the collectors a high quality product, at least regarding manufacturing. Even with the good audiophile companies that Michael listed, one needs to check carefully. Sometimes you buy something, put it on the platter and get confronted with 2 dimensional, harsh crap where you were expecting something decent. They are the real deal. A look a the photos of the tape boxes that appered in the box set were very revealing. Not so much but I wouldn't blame Bell Sound. 2) we don't know what we cut this LP from. A lot of The Beatles 1/2 speeds were NOT done with originalEMI master tapes. Can anyone of you tell me about the reissues on the DOL-Label? It would be worth putting an area on Analog Planet devoted to this. Music Lovers = we make money by cutting corners not by cutting from masters. About the "manufactured by Rhino" you see on the back of the Scorpio reissues, those are legit and pressed by Rhino. Great to see the reissue of Some Girls is now on HD Tracks. I think the guy "robert" is full of it, and doesn't know anything about this series. I would like to say that I am more of the persuasion that record companies are ripping everyone off by knowingly releasing an inferior sounding product to keep the "remaster" business going. Maintains working knowledge of quality . I also really like the Japanese red mono vinyl, but mostly for the different mix. Same with "together through life". Granados . I would expect it to be GOUGED for that many crackles. The same problem exists for audiophile CD reissues. Marginal improvement over the CD. Great sounding, transparent, clear and full. That could mean Bob took the master tape, did his thing, produced a 96/24 file and had Wes Garland cut from that, or that he went with the tape to NRP and cut from analog (assuming NRP has a preview head equipped playback deck), but sometimes there's nothing written in the Sundazed "deadwax", which leaves buyers with not a clue as to who did the all important lacquer cut and where it was cut, which is equally important: a mastering chain is like a hi-fi system in reverse. Juliette Greco Early History of the Ermitage family. Trust your ears. Their stuff so far as I know is just CDs pressed to vinyl. I'm going by mostlymemory here since I've long parted with mine. From: martin The quality of vinyl that consumers buy is actually the responsibility of the labels and not the pressing plants, labels should monitor what they are putting into the market and withdraw any faulty pressing runs, it's labels quality control that is failing vinyl, too many people skipping test presses or not even bothering to listen to them, Anyone can go in, open a new record, and put in the info. All of the Meters and Electric Prunes albums have the "manufactured by Rhino" sticker on the shrinkwrap. If Mikey, with his connections, can't get this information, what hope is there for us? The DSD mastered Stones reissues sound fantastic as do original UK Deccas. It's my opinion, it doesn't mean I m right. I have purchased more than one pop/rock WaxTime LP. The past 10 years, as vinyl picked up popularity again, it seemed like an onslaught of companies offering "audiophile 180G" vinyl. At 7 a pop, I have little to complain about. You can hear it here: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/bernard-herrmann-alfred-hitchcock-psycho- and I want to say that, while it's definitely not an "audiophile sound quality" release, I'm truly impressed with the quality of the record itself. We definitely need something like this we are getting ripped off left right and centre. Would be a great idea for a reissue. But the latter doesn't sound better IMO. Perhaps one day the reissue and "HD" music businesses will reach a level of public conscieness that similar ad hoc (voluntary, yet accurate and agreed-upon) standard vocabulary --- and its uses --- will come about. Love the record, it sounds just a tad muddy. Very interested to compare to originals though. or maybe try one of them since the price is low. Having only just started to re-build my vinyl record collection, advice like this is invaluable! I'll wait for the Music Matters reissue later this year. The Electric Prunes and (Reprise) Meters albums sound great, the Josies are OK since the original recordings weren't that great but the music will get you moving. Or just 44.1/24 masquerading as 88/24? Chopin . Wasn't terribly impressed with it, either. I'd take the DSD sourced vinyl over those any day as they are way closer to the masters (unboxed Decca UK pressings are a different matter, most of those sound great if you can find them in good condition). Doxy have done a series of Muddy Waters box sets on vinyl for example. Uberlight Flex LED Task Light Is Up to the Task! The German Horzu pressing of Magical Mystery Tour is of course incredible compared to all the rest. Their website states this: As for our sources; We are provided with the best possible (analogue) masters available. That makes no sense though because some people are still interested in music from Aaliyah's catalog (which is available on an extremely limited basis right now.). There are a few others like that here too. Anyone else have similar quality issues with new reissues from Wax Time Records? Is Get On Down if you're into hip-hop at all. It would stand to reason the highest resolution digital files were used for the LP Can you tell me please what the original sources for the HD Tracks files are? I'm so glad you brought this subject up because I buy lots of vinyl..new reissue vinyl and when I pay on average $30 per album I certainly do not want one cut from a cdI gave up collecting cd's and don't want my lp's sounding like or cut from cd'sthanks for the information about music on vinylI have bought quite a few of these and the price for them is not cheap! Sheltered from strong northerly winds, the south-facing slopes of the Hermitage hill benefit from ideal sunshine, which has a great influence on the quality of these wines. I also picked up the Fat Possum reissue of The Slider, even though my copy is still in good shape. Considering how full of errors Discogs already is and that there is no objective way of measuring pressing quality then it wouldn't be something that worked well, the best thing to do is learn which plants pressed most of your favourite records and those that pressed the ones with most problems, buy from the former and avoid the latter. This guide is intended for owners and operators of all PWSs serving fewer than 10,000 persons. Maybe the Hankersons (owners of Blackground) were out to make a quick buck? Rolling Stones, get your ya yas out reissue box set; 96/24. resolution unknown. Italian Archives online. Can anyone chime in about the simply vinyl nick drake releases? This is a really good article and makes a very good point. The original purchased White Album was far superior to the remastered 180 gram from sound Soundstage Direct. In an email exchange with MFSL, they admitted the LP's were not cut from the "original masters" but from a remix provided by Yoko Ono (who knows if digital was involved). P.S. I have bought a couple of records from this label for $15+tax: Ray Charles and Grant Green, and found the quality to be poor. As this is the reason why someone with the original LPs would buy these. Acoustic Sounds is as good as I've ever seen in terms of having commentary on re-issues. That's their right of course, but I swear it's almost like a disease..okay, I'm probably ranting about this in the wrong place. Lots of labels have cottoned on to the fact that they can make great margins from knocking out a badly sourced record so long as they put a '180g audiophile vinyl' sticker on the front. Kevin Gray told me himself he cut them from the tapes, so yeah, believe whatever you want. Hey we need to bring back those goofy AAD designations that used to be on CDs, where it was implied that DDD was somehow the ideal, but now we need them for vinyl -- AAA implying pure analog recording, mixing, and mastering! Make it updatable by anyone. I have had horrible luck with new issues. A truly great article and responses. Keywords: health care costs, unannounced standardized patients, medical ethics; medical records; quality of health care. Is this a false statement? Great article, and critical subject matter. That is, out of 1026 observations that were identified at the species rank in iNaturalist, 39 had an incorrect genus, 25 an incorrect family, and . These were all sourced from Capitol submasters and not EMI originals. I'd stay away. I was quite excited when I saw many of the classic blues titles from Yazoo being reissued. I emailed Friday Music about their reissue of Boston's debut LP, which their literature says is "Masteredfrom the original Epic Records tapes" but doesn't specifically say "analog." - My pressing of "Pink Moon" does not appear to have been manufactured by Simply Vinyl. The fact is, these are obviously not from analog tape. I need to review that I have it here. Actually some of them, especially those licensed from EMI, can sound very good and could very well be analog tape sourced, but the company refuses to identify sources. So, like probably many people I thought buying 180 or 200 gram remastered vinyl was a good thing. It's a nice and heavy, 180g record, and the label and spindle hole were also top-notch. I have a couple of other artists from that label, and they're ok; nothing to write home about. Digital, most likely 48/24k. And in the end, I believe we would be better served by greater transparency about sources and mastering because the current atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion not helpful. After this last purchase, and your article, this will be definetely one label that I shall be avoiding like the plague. BTW: the Mobile Fidelity MMT CASSETTE has side two in real stereo, like the German MMT LP! I am not impressed with the quality controls in the press/release process at Wax Time, a record company out of Spain. To: contact@hdtracks.com Isn't this what the search engine is for? . We compared. I completely agree with Mickey that it's dicey at best with remasters if the info is limited. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, why would Kevin convert the tapes to digital files? The SV reissue was bright and hard by comparison. Thanks! MMT, White Album and Abbey Road. Well if not ripped off most grossly inconvenienced due to sending stuff back in the post time and time again. They are: Serge Gainsbourg It also is used to evaluate practitioner performance, to monitor resource use, and to determine . On the back of the Waxtime sleeves is DMM (Direct Metal Mastering), and for Lilith and Doxy in the Dig-a-Log collection it uses the word "analog". I have to say, I'm very pleased with the three Doxy LPs I've bought so far. When I played the record back, it played beautifully with no more skips. 2015 Apr;26(2):245-51, ix. @Michael Fremer can you comment on whether the 2020 50th Anniversay cut of Abraxas by Kevin Gray is AAA? The CD is totally compressed while the LP has lots of dynamic range and better tonal balance. Transparency in what you buy in music is not good. However, the LP reissue is 44.1/24 and compressed. Data rates are typically higher than this during the recording, mixing, and mastering process. I can recommend whole heartedly and with a clear conscience to other music lovers, please, stay away from 4MwB. Obviously if you only want the classics then you will usually get a good deal but if it's anything that was on an independent Been reading Plain Recordings and 4 Men With Beards are one in the same and have the same mailing address. I have not yet tried any of their jazz releases. I am seek advice about Venus Records from Japan. Great article and followup posts. If all the informationis not available, there is probably a reason. Pablo was a Norman Granz label (Granz founded Verve among other labels) that used top engineers and the RCA vinyl infrastructure to process its albums and what this guy was playing me sounded wrong. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (other duties may be assigned): Maintains working knowledge of Federal, State, and Local environmental laws regulations. It's not easy! I prefered a complete analog experience, that's why ilisten to Lp in the first place. Label/record company, 3. sources. Built-in safeguards against potential adverse events. If you buy from Sundazed, for instance, you can be assured that the original tape was used as the source, because Sundazed's Bob Irwin, who has worked for Sony's Legacy division for years producing CD reissues, is very focused on using masters. I just got a Carole King simply vinyl, cleaned with that $4,000 record cleaner Mikey talked about at T.H.E. Ermitage un marchio ben noto a tutti gli amanti della musica e del cinema storico ed uno dei marchi pi longevi della discografia classica indipendente. EHRs Support Provider Decision Making. You'd think there'd be some obsessive on the internet keeping track of this stuff. Look at the job Sony Legacy did with Bernard Purdie's Soul Drums. 3,4 To capture and leverage EHR content, the challenges relate to variability in the . They sound great. I have to agree concerning the 4MwB pressings. EHRs can help providers make efficient, effective decisions about patient care, through: Improved aggregation, analysis, and communication of patient information. These include Doxy (not Sonny Rollins' labelapparently there's another one using the same name), ZYX from Germany, Vinyl Lovers, Simply Vinyl and Abraxas. Wax Time reissues are sold widely by reputable record stores like Amoeba and Rasputin, and while not in the price range of the true audiophile masterings, they're not exactly cheap, eithertypically about $20 retail at a brick and mortar store. The ones I have heard are uniformly crap. I've never heard a 1st pressing, only CD masters until this point, so I can only compare what I have heard. Ermitage @ermitagerecords 32.7K subscribers Subscribe Home Videos Live Playlists Community Channels About Created playlists Sort by 1 The Beggar's Opera - Il teatro di Lucio Dalla | Ermitage. Of course sometimes content trumps source but if the source was originally analog and the source is available, using a CD to cut a record is inexcusable. You have made a very serious charge. I'm not good with lists. It sounds nothing at all like an analog original. Completely agree, I had a similar experience as well with quality issues. In Southern Italy instead, in the territories of the . The low end was muddy (thought it was my old ears at first), sloppy mid and highs. The source was some kind of digitally sourced, noise reduced flat sonic wash with all the life and dynamics sucked out. There never was a true mono master for many of these. 1,2 The move from vision to reality is not as simple as we would like, however. Compression has a HUGE impact on the aural perception of a recording and should be banned as far as I'm concerned. Well if the source and other info is listed on the record, of course consider that release. A total of 18 studies analyzed the effect of an EMR on the quality of health care (78%), 16 the effect on the efficiency of health care (70%). I was at a show in Scandinavia and someone was playing a Vinyl Lovers Rod Stewart LP. Sound is Ok, sounds digital, a bit flat. or someone at the American affiliate made some foolish mastering choices and forced them on the Bell Sound cutting engineer. The albums were subsequently re-cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, this time using the analog master tapes, and they sound fantastic. The vinyl is also perfectly flat with no surface noise, essential for this kind of music. Thanks for that information. A few months back I paid about $40 in Norway for the Friday Music's 2008 reissue of America's self-titled album. The approach for control of quality records is to identify the records required in each of your procedures to support or provide objective evidence that the procedure has been followed. Of course, the CBS Mastersound LP of Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is a great example of this. I have a few CD's which have no compression or equalization at all (such as Al Stewarts's Year of the Cat MFCD-803) and when you listen to it you wonder why we are compressing the dynamics at all. Only the record companies that own the rights to a recording have access to the original master tapes. Thanks for any advice you may offer, and I'd like to wish you all a safe and happy new year. I'm not good with lists. Most of what I've read isn't positive. He also produces editorial series for the most important Italian newspapers such as Il Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica. ). Surely pulling random copies and checking for problems is something that should be done by the pressing plant in the production cycle? Seems to be known for its superiority over other, questionable reissues. Simply Vinyl has done some Elvis reissues and other LPs. If need be I add a note to the review section underneath the release. Can you be more specific here? I do not see how the discs of Jazz that are fifty years old, or discs of Caetano Veloso like Tropicalia (1968) can be considered as being in the public domain. Simply Vinyl refuses to identify sources. This is supposed to sound good. Electronic medical records and quality improvement Neurosurg Clin N Am. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association 2020. Still, you would be hard-pressed to trump a well-kept, well-cleaned original. and what they know about the up coming reissue of Pink Moon. To: martin Why not put them to use and aide "the cause? Peppersucked too. Benefits of Record Keeping Record keeping has many benefits and can help you improve the operation and management of your system. 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