dlangs%sunstroke@SDSU.EDU (Derek Langsford) (04/02/91)
From: larry@csccat.cs.COM (Larry Spence) >A quick TD question. Since the album was mixed to digital, is it reasonable >to assume that the US and UK masterings sound (nearly?) identical? I finally >got a UK HoL, and the difference is pretty obvious in places (e.g., beginning >of "Mother Stands for Comfort"), although as IED pointed out, there's still >a lot of tape hiss in various places. Has anyone compared the two TD >masterings? It is *NOT* reasonable to expect US and UK masterings to sound identical. I remember being horrified at how EMI America botched the initial US CD of NFE. Hiss between the tracks and an awful clunk at the beginning of 'The Wedding List'. My UK TD CD has an AAD on both the back and on the disc. Still even with digital mixing the mastering to CD can be done differently. The UK TD is mastered and pressed by Nimbus UK. It is unlikely you will find a better sounding CD IMO. The latest crop if US KaTe CDs do not sound bad. I must admit but I have never compared them directly with the imports I own. BTW I saw a US copy of TKI and the disc was made by EMI in Swindon and Capitol had printed the titles etc on it. Capitol have done this with a few CDs. I am afraid I cannot comment on a direct comparison. But do remember that the import comes with the lyrics unlike the current nice-price domestic. Anyone compared their 'old' import CDs with the TWW CDs (I know I have asked this before)? Derek dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu
derek@leah.albany.EDU (Cinderella Man) (04/02/91)
Just as a POI, my CD of Kick Inside, bought about six months ago,
is manufactured and marketed by EMI America/Manhattan -- it was a "nice
price" disc, but happily it came with the lyrics anyway, even if they are
crunched in 4-pt type over the one-sheet folded insert. My other KT discs
all do not have lyrics ('cept for TSW), and are all EMI America/Manhattan.
I'm satisfyed if not overwhelmed with the quality.
My only bootleg is titled "Burning Desire" and I bought it for $20
in Ridgewood NJ or thereabouts. In retrospect it wasn't worth it, just
for a (poor-audio-quality) boot of the Hammersmith video tracks.
I bought Happy Rhodes' _Warpaint_ at the Music Shack today, and
it's verrrrrrrry good.
yours lurking
Derek L.
my favourite kaTe disc this week is Never For Ever
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