maggior;614743 Wrote: > Am I alone in liking this album? :-). It's not my favorite Weather > Report album, but it is far from my least favorite. > > I know the focus is on "recording quality", but I can't help but bring > up "Zero Tolerance for Silence" by Pat Metheny. Ugh! > > An album that always dissapointed me in the sound quality department > was "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull. The music is awesome, but the recording > has no balls whatsoever - no punch, no sparkle, just sounds very flat. > I remember the disappointment when I ripped my vinyl copy. I got the > remaster on CD hoping for an improvement - nope. > > Other albums from that era sound awesome (Abbey Road, Meddle, Fragile, > etc.), so I don't know what happened with this album.
The secret with Aqualung is to get the RIGHT one... that was actually mastered from the master tapes not a 3rd gen safety copy.... on vinyl this meant a first UK pressing... on CD it's way more complicated... you need to get the DCC version but it's very expensive.... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF x-dacv3/x-10/x-psu(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85882 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
