👍

Yes. They are awesome.

Kiss ass 🤠😎🤓 thank you Chance 🕊️

Much appreciated. Happy you enjoyed it.

Thanks so much.

Much appreciated. You too brother.

Yeah what a concept 🎉

Thanks Jason.

Thanks so much for watching.

Thanks Sean. Much appreciated.

Thank you. That one was a while ago.

He has not said no to me but maybe at a later date 🙏

Thank you.

100% concur.

Good album. Thanks.

Charles Barkley would be the best!! 😉

I have another suggestion for guests... Get Miles Showell and Kevin Gray on the same roundtable to have a discussion about half-speed mastering 🙂

100% agree. I’ve been slowly upgrading my Aussie first pressings to UK or US first pressings, but my Oz quadraphonic first pressing of DSOTM is awesome.

That's the way to go if you can. It's a real find when you get those unexpected OG's like the Rubber Soul Parlophone mentioned in Steve's video- $15 USD, bargoon.

Yes. I know now. Thanks. Still sounds pretty good.

Watcha about to sell from your LP music collection?

🎉🎉🎉

(Monster truck rally voice) ONLY ON PAY-PER-VIEW!

Ok. Will reach out.

The Half Speed Abbey Road Rolling Stones reissues are the worst sounding of this process in my opinion.....Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street need a MAJOR reissue upgrade 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thanks so much. I just played my original Tracy Chapman last night. Incredible record.

????

I hate those paper sleeves they used here in North America.

@@stevewestman7774 The U.S. Londons were terrible in every way.

Yeah Classical labels frequently used them.

I certainly can. The Rhino Killer album that came out in 2020. Was mastered by Randy Kling and the lacquers cut by Chris Bellman.

@@stevewestman7774 Thanks Steve, curious if they just used the Bellman cuts or if these new Deluxe "School's Out" and "Killer" are remastered and recut by other mastering engineers and who they are.

Hmmmmm. Interesting 🤔

Hmmm maybe. I just got mine 2 from Rhino last Wednesday. Both had no issues.

@@stevewestman7774 That's encouraging. Did Rhino send you a notification when they shipped?

@@robertnitsche8410 yes I got an email saying it’s been shipped.

Little Feat’s Waiting for Columbus.

I have done a bunch of shootouts on my channel. It can all be so subjective. The room, the gear etc.

Nope

Thanks Scott. Like I said. I have not looked at the matrix yet.

@@stevewestman7774 No problem. The original issues are recognizable by the labels. Atlantic has quite a history of their evolving labels over the years. The thing is there is always the possibility that they used earlier masterings. That is particularly true with Jazz as it never sold like mainstream rock and did not need as many new lacquers. I hope it sounds great!

@@scottwheeler2679 yes me too. I will spin it this weekend. The vinyl is shiny and a solid VG+ so I feel it was a good deal. I’m hoping it sounds great.

@@stevewestman7774you don’t have to look at the matrix, it is enough to look at the label. Sorry to be “that guy”, but I think you should check it before you make a video claiming you bought an original for 40 cad, when it is a reissue. An original in that condition would go for 200-300 cad I think.

@@andysmusicden yes. Thank you

Audiophile reissues aren't "the same thing" they come with the possibility of better sound on a much loved recording. And personally I do buy plenty of new music. It's not an either/or proposition

Lol what? As a big mofi and AP fan, with 50+ of their products, that's absolutely ridiculous. Mofi has been incredibly hit or miss, even before the scandal. Off the top of my head I can list a bunch. The cars s/t, the stranger(and other billy joels), the band s/t(RL), CSN one step, hall and oates, Eldorado, she's so unusual, tapestry, fragile, Allman bros fillmore east(pink capricorn), pretenders(UK mono), foreigner, the Linda ronstadts, imagine, and the two recent eagles. All of these have been heavily considered worse than the originals. Hell, a mofi has yet to win any of Patrick the vinyl archivists shootouts. Even the most lauded Bob Dylan desire, lost to the often criticized original. Same with the beloved eagles s/t onestep, with users voting blind. Thats also leaving out all of the poorly reviewed old mfsl pressings, and a bunch of 60s ones. Hell you can get a $20 mono that sounds better than mofis cheap thrills. And those old beatles titles are horrible, especially compared to the UK abbey road. Oh and I forgot to mention the biggest one, thriller. Very few people preferred the mofi. Even when mofi does well, they're often overly analytical where a bunch of the cohesiveness is lost. If you go to a critical forum, like hoffman, people have been questioning tons of mofi before the scandal ever happened. On places like discogs, all the new vinyl noobs rate the music, where any new release is a 4.5+. You can press a literal turd into a record, and it'd get a 4.63 on discogs. Most records sound great with no comparison, which is why folks like michael45 were so pro mofi only due to the name. If you actually compare and listen, they're often worse, and if better often are waaay too analytical, losing any sense of drive or punch. Also some APs have been criticized, with many people preferring a 1st press can't buy a thrill. It's debatable if AYE was an improvement as well. The doors s/t is worse than a 1st monarch or even Allentown, due to being a dub tape. Same with a mono 1st press strange days being better than the AP. Most beach boys are the best, but surfs up and sunflower are no better than 1st press artisans. A ton of aqualungs were poorly pressed, and many still prefer a 1-A reprise. I personally prefer the 1st lynyrd AP by a bit, but there's many who are underwhelmed and prefer the original due to more top end. Also most fans prefer the early 70s mono Carl and the passions two-for pet sounds to the mono AP(though their stereo is the best it's ever sounded). To say such a blanket statement makes me believe you're probably someone like Michael who never actually compared these things, instead going off of brand name or heresy. Because even as a huge fan of AP and mofi, I find such a statement ridiculous from experience. If you don't directly compare, pretty much any record will blow you away, especially if you have the bias that it's "the best". There's an actual scientific reason why originals are often better. First is tape degradation, also the massive loss of mastering talent, an artisan trade thats passed on(which is why BG, KG, and CB do 99% of audiophile pressings outside of KW at mofi). Once a tape degrades, you're not getting those sonics back. No matter how good a mastering is, you can only highlight or minimize what's in the tape, you cannot add sonics. Which is why mofi and AP rely heavily on cutting 45s as opposed to 33s, because that way there's some added fidelity to a 33. This reminds me of the crazy erc fans who try to argue a severely damaged, flat transfer, doors mono sounds better than the OG. When 2 mastering engineers, including the tapes creator, said it was way too damaged to even press a $40 analog copy. Yet because it's erc, fanboys ignore the massive defects. Mofi and AP shine when the original record was poorly mastered, especially 60s stuff where they were just learning stereo. Like Jeff becks truth and the jefferson airplanes. They did really good with iron butterfly and vanilla fudge, but in Gadda sounds weird without reverb. I respect your opinion, but a vast majority of people would disagree with such a blanket statement. Even most of mofis biggest supporters. There's amazing sounding mofis and APs, but there's alot of OGs that sound far better. The reissues only really win with surface noise, but that's comparing to often shredded OGs. I really have never met an experienced vinyl collector making such ridiculous statements, not even at the height of mofi did the biggest mofi fans think every single one was better than the original. Only new buyers who bought mofi to begin with due to brand name and buzz like michael45 blindly thought all mofis were the best. And even he, the once biggest fan, realized how much better many 1st pressings are.

@@simonemurray1345 Some OG's are consistently well recorded like Linda Ronshadt. Most of the Geffen Records and his first label Asylum were very well produced and recorded albums. This is why I won't be buying the Joni Mitchell Mobile titles. Besides, they should have done Shadows & LIght, Joni's superb 2nd live album from 1979. This was with her best band ever in my opinion. All the Joni OG's and very early reissues sound great.

@@simonemurray1345 Appreciate your passion and knowledge. Only speaking from my experience. Have maybe 500 records mostly 70s. All upgrades I have purchased are substantially better sounding. Majority are MOFI and AP. Only exception is Foghat Fool for the City which is very poor. I am personally very impressed with their products..to my ear it seems so obvious.

Re: Simone Murray. I agree with you on many of the Mofis versus the originals being better; but it took you 120 lines to clobber that guy. If he responds, I hope it is more brief.

Tell that to Chad Kassem, and the Bob Marley Exodus uhqr that are not numbered, including mine, when in fact he stated "limited number".

A limited edition is only limited for that particular edition. An edition is a specific release and of course there could be a totally different un numbered or colored and even a signed edition. Limited in perpetuity doesn’t really exist. If you have the first edition, then there is value in owning that.

​@Norman Maslov yeah mofi already did this with iron butterfly. First was strictly limited to 3000, so they got around that with a super vinyl.... Also they've already broke their rules for Jeff becks truth. When it came out it was misprinted as 5000 copies on the sleeve, but they confirmed multiple times it was a misprint, and that there's only 4000. Well after the scandal and Jeff becks death causing demand/need for income, they've now printed another 1000, breaking their word and the past limitation. Now the interesting thing with Abraxas is it was so early where it wasn't on supervinyl, it's a regular vinyl onestep. So they can absolutely make a supervinyl version if they get the licensing. But some people will be furious because the new edition would be more desirable due to the vinyl quality, and being dsd there's no real provenance with a 1st edition in this case. But mofi would make a ton of more people happy, and could make serious money, so I could see it happening and it would be a big net positive. Also it follows what they're doing with miles Davis and the iron butterfly releases, using supervinyl to get around the limited restriction. Any reason to be against it is purely selfish from financial reasons. Thus is why it's dumb to buy modern records as a long term investment. If you can't afford it crashing, only buy 1st pressings that will never be made again in that mastering. If youre worried about invesment money, you're far better off spending a bunch on a unpeeled banana velvet underground, or an OG mono 13th floor elevators, than on anything mofi or AP put out in the past 20 years, because with the vinyl resurgence mostly everything will be repressed if popular enough, especially as the market recedes to create demand, which is why manufactured collectibles is a dumb route for investment. Most actually valuable records aren't expensive due to being intentionally limited, but due to increased demand over the years. Mofi will most definitely press Abraxas again on supervinyl, either the 33, a onestep, or a non onestep 45, if they can get licensing. They're going to do every big title they can again. Now I do feel bad for the poor people who paid over $1000 for something defined as strictly limited, but most who'd be angry are those who bought it to make money. If you're buying $1000 records, yet can't afford it crashing, then that's just financially irresponsible. Though I do believe companies need to stop with this falsely limited crap and deceitful advertising to create fomo while manipulating customers. Even if a small pressing, just put the records out there so the fans can buy it, not flippers or hoarders only concerned about the value.

@@mazzysmusic depends on how it is advertised.

​@Norman Maslov Absolutely correct NM. Newsflash to the newer/younger vinyl collectors (vs music vinyl listeners), as Mazzy states, there's hardly EVER reissue (of popular albums) that's not eventually reissued & oftentimes, might be improved upon in some modest manner or some "truer to the original" intent.

lol, maybe in America after 72. Gotta love these broad general statements based on....nothing.

@@user-yk4gd1fl4z sabuf

Whoa, I respectfully disagree on several of these “statements” ✌🏻

Put Cat Stevens tea for the tillerman up against these sorry records, then you will realize how sorry sounding these records are. The guitars on most of Dark Side of the Moon is no talent. You have 2 untalented women instrumentalists on Fleetwood Mac, this isnt music, this is singing. Joe Walsh was so much better in James Gang, in the Eagles he was terrible. These albums are remastered every 5 years to rob sheeple. Sorry, you are wrong. America-America 1971 was a great sounding record, in 1972 they didnt sound as good. Same goes for Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, & the Who. Even the older different Pink Floyd bands records sounded better than the new Pink Floyd. All the bands I complained about wasnt a band in 1971. The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet & Let it Bleed sounds so much better than their later records. Unlike Pink floyd, at least the Rolling Stones guitars sounded great. Even the older Pink Floyd group had better guitarists.

Myron is obviously one of those guys who thinks his experience using whatever he uses for equipment is Bible. There were/are many great recordings even to this day and they didn't stop in 1972. Pretty ridiculous. Actually you wouldn't have enough hours in your life to hear all therecords released in even just one year.