rigger67
26-04-2020, 11:17
I was reading a column in one of the broadsheets the other day, you know the kind of thing they're using to fill up the culture pages now that nothing new is actually happening, and it was a music industry person detailing his favourite guilty pleasure type of album from his youth, in this case Supertramp - Breakfast In America.
He ran through it track by track and I could almost hear it in my head even though I'd guessed I'd not actually listened to it in twenty-odd years for whatever reason.
Yesterday afternoon I dug the record out and slipped it from it's plastic-lined plain paper inner sleeve, though the album cover did also contain a full-sized lyrics sheet with a few liner notes and I noticed that the inside of the cardboard outer was a vibrant tangerine shade :eyebrows:
I played the album right through, both sides, while my partner was cooking a lamb curry in the kitchen.
It was amazing. Exactly how I remembered it but it sounded superb ! I mean really, really great - about as good as my system does.
Sometimes on older albums the Linn blows away the CD player, while on others the Marantz beats it - especially with newer productions - though again the Linn sounds excellent with brand new vinyl from today.
But this one really was fantastic.
I picked up the sleeve again for no apparent reason and noticed that it said "Half-Speed Mastered" across the top and "Audiophile Pressing" at the bottom.
I bought the record in 1980.
I didn't even know that was a thing back then :scratch:
Anyway .. hardly any pops on it either - it's a thing of beauty and I love it :yay:
https://i.postimg.cc/RZ65C2J4/SUPERTRAMP-BREAKFAST-IN-AMERICA-HALF-SPEED-MASTERED-105803.jpg
He ran through it track by track and I could almost hear it in my head even though I'd guessed I'd not actually listened to it in twenty-odd years for whatever reason.
Yesterday afternoon I dug the record out and slipped it from it's plastic-lined plain paper inner sleeve, though the album cover did also contain a full-sized lyrics sheet with a few liner notes and I noticed that the inside of the cardboard outer was a vibrant tangerine shade :eyebrows:
I played the album right through, both sides, while my partner was cooking a lamb curry in the kitchen.
It was amazing. Exactly how I remembered it but it sounded superb ! I mean really, really great - about as good as my system does.
Sometimes on older albums the Linn blows away the CD player, while on others the Marantz beats it - especially with newer productions - though again the Linn sounds excellent with brand new vinyl from today.
But this one really was fantastic.
I picked up the sleeve again for no apparent reason and noticed that it said "Half-Speed Mastered" across the top and "Audiophile Pressing" at the bottom.
I bought the record in 1980.
I didn't even know that was a thing back then :scratch:
Anyway .. hardly any pops on it either - it's a thing of beauty and I love it :yay:
https://i.postimg.cc/RZ65C2J4/SUPERTRAMP-BREAKFAST-IN-AMERICA-HALF-SPEED-MASTERED-105803.jpg