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On 08/05/07, Tom Fine wrote: > There is a lot more bad vinyl transfer crap out there than you'd ever > think. A lot of it originates in the Orient, China and Korea. It seems > to be semi-legal, because it can be bought on eBay. Most of the > Everest jazz stuff reissued by a company either owned or distributed > by Universal is obviously bad vinyl transfers. > > Then there are cases like Ray Barretto's Fania albums. There's a guy > on eBay who sells vinyl reproductions made who knows where from what > may or may not be real-deal safeties or masters. Recently, some of the > Fania albums were reissued on a label again owned or distributed by > Universal. The remastering for the CD is so terrible that the > reproduction LPs sound vastly superior. I'm talking a deaf mastering > "engineer" -- digi-swishies all over the place from over-aggressive > noise reduction and quashed dynamic range (which just makes the > swishies worse). > > It's unbelievable what bad quality gets peddled sometimes. > > To end on a happier note, the Analogue Productions SACD reissues of > the Creedence Clearwater Revival albums are superb. Even the CD layer > is better than any other reissue, at least to my ears. Also, I have to > give major kudos to BMG's continuing commitment to the RCA Living > Stereo reissues. The SACD's are vastly superior to the 1990's CD > reissues, even the CD layer. > Yes, they are an example of what can be done. I wish more Mercury recordings could be issued on SACD. Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]