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A pale shadow of the real MASTERDISK pressings. We’ve played at least a hundred of them, and I would be surprised if every one of them did not sound better than this compressed and desiccated audiophile piece of trash.
Labels with Shortcomings – MCA Half-Speeds
Tom Petty / Damn The Torpedoes – Is This LP Bright Enough For You?
“Masterphile Series”
Mastered at Half-Speed
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On this pressing it sure is. If your stereo is dull, dull, deadly dull, this company’s remastering approach, like many of the CBS Half-Speeds, will fix your lack of high end.
A perfect example of Stone Age Audio Thinking – a bright record to fix a dark system.
The only problem is, what happens when you put together a better system, one that’s tonally correct?
Then you will have to get rid of your old record collection and start over, right?
So get your stereo right before you go wasting lots of money on phony sounding records.
And most Heavy Vinyl today is every bit as bad, with boosted bass and overly smooth upper mids. Tune your system to that crap and you will find yourself in the same predicament down the road, assuming you ever get your stereo working right.