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About a year ago we played the Craft pressing (CR00513) that had come out in 2023.
We have audition notes for lots of these dreadful Heavy Vinyl pressings sitting around. Sometimes they sit around for years. Obviously we are in no hurry to put them up.
The notes I took for the Craft pressing of Lush Life that Geoff Edgers played me still has not been posted, and he played me that record all the way back in 2022. For those of you who can’t wait for the complete review, I told him it sounded like a CD and proceeded to take it off the turntable.
At the time, I don’t think he understood how that could even be possible. He’d visited Bernie Grundman and read all the rave reviews for his work in the audiophile press. What do you mean his record sounds like a CD? Who the hell do you think you are anyway?
Geoff knows what that means now. I will leave it at that.
We were not surprised to find that the sound of this Craft pressing was terrible. Whoever this Jeff Powell is, I admit I’ve never heard of him, if you see his name on a remastered record, you might want to consider that if he can make a record that sounds this bad, he may not know what he is doing.
This strikes us as a safe bet.
Our notes for the album comprise all of five words. They read:
- Not good
- Blurry and congested
As you can see, we didn’t feel the need to spend too much time with it. When a record shows you right off the bat how badly mastered it is, we move on pretty quickly.