Dang, and I thought everybody knew that... ;-)
Way cool album cover for sure, even if the record was in bad shape or missing it would still be a nice find.
Anybody here got turntables, vintage stereo gear?
I've got but seldom use a really nice Technics SL1800, into an old Sansui amp, and a real nice Panasonic cassette player, it's kinda nice to listen to analog music sometimes, especially vinyl.
Off the top of my head I can't think of a CD re-issue of a vinyl that has better presence than the original vinyl (and I waited a l-o-oo-ng time to get into CD's because of the initial stories about poor quality rushed remasters), but I have heard some material originally recorded digitally that is pretty darn fantastic.
I don't know what it is, but for some reason all those CD re-mixes seem "2-dimensional", a "flat" sound field, no matter how clean and/or how much better the mix is.
For some reason vinyl almost always yields better spatial depth. I can hear the location of the instruments on some truly well-engineered and produced vinyls such as "
Kind of Blue" and "
Steppenwolf the Second" (that was the first one I ever noticed it on, that I could hear specific instruments in a specific location in the room on some cuts, and none of 'em interfering with each other from "frequency moire effect")
Others with excellent presence and depth:
"
Cheap Thrills", the first 2 Quicksilver albums, also "
Baxter's", "
Volunteers", "
Axis: Bold as Love", and just about anything on the ECM label.
