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We went back and played the Cisco version about 6 or 7 10 or 15 years ago and were quite a bit less impressed with the sound than we had been when it first came out. We wrote the review you see below sometime around 2015 or so.
This is a decent Cisco LP, which is now long out of print. Audiophiles who love female vocal albums and pass on this one are missing the boat, because finding a better sounding original in clean enough condition to play is practically impossible these days.
Of course, if you already have a clean original you sure don’t need to waste your money on this LP.
To recap briefly:
In 2015 or thereabouts we liked the record a lot less than we did when it came out in 2002.
Our take in 2025: I doubt we could sit through it with a gun to our head.
As we mention throughout this blog, Cisco’s titles had to fight their way through Kevin Gray’s opaque, airless, low-resolution cutting system, a subject we discuss in some depth here. (It was even more opaque back then than it is today.)
Other bad sounding records that Kevin Gray mastered can be found here.
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