Hot Stamper Pressings of Miles’s Albums Available Now
One of our good customers, Robert Brook, writes a blog which he calls
A GUIDE FOR THE DEDICATED ANALOG AUDIOPHILE
Below is a link to the review he wrote recently for one of our favorite records, Kind of Blue. (To be clear, we love the album, just not the MoFi pressing of it.)
One of our other good customers had this to say about the Mobile Fidelity pressing:
Last night I listened to my 2015 Mobile Fidelity 45 RPM pressing.
I couldn’t get through the first cut.
Closed, muffled and flat as a pancake. No life or energy whatsoever.
I agreed and added my two cents:
My notes for their pressing read:
- Thick, dark, flat.
- Lacks air, space, presence.
- Not a bad sound but it’s not right.
Later I added:
Having listened to the record more extensively, I see now I was being much too kind.
A longer review will be coming soon I hope. I think I may know why some audiophiles like the sound of this record, and will be exploring that notion in a future commentary.
The last line about the MoFi not having “a bad sound but it’s not right” reminded me of of the mistakes I made in my original review of Santana’s first album on MoFi: we owe you an apology
Kind of Blue is an album we admit to being obsessed with — just look at the number of commentaries we’ve written about it.
