![]() ![]() I've never heard a different or newer pressing but I'd like to compare.Įdit in: There was one mono in particular that was better sounding than the rest but overall they were all good and similar sounding.Ĭlick to expand.I'd be interested to hear an audio pro comment on this.because it seems very unlikely that Time Out could ever have sounded "dry," something must be amiss - you're either listening to it on Spotify on a system that doesn't convey what's on the tapes very well, has all the top end rolled off, or something.īecause, I don't see how Time Out could have been recorded "dry" given it was recorded in the gigantic Columbia 30th Street Studio, called "The Church," because, well, that's what the building used to be, an actual church. One mono had some IGD and rice crispies but I kept it because it has a decent early cover with the black bottom. The only one I pulled to sell was the stereo 2-eye (more for surface noise than SQ). I only listened to the best condition, (one each mono and stereo), the whole way thru and then spot tested the others. I was listening for SQ and quietness along with the pure musical enjoyment. It's the bass drum, really the whole kit, that just has more power and kick on mono Take Five. I prefer my TO in mono and that was confirmed while comparing. I discovered I have at least 7 copies, probably more in the garage, 4 mono (all 6-eye) and 3 stereo,(2 6-eye,1 2-eye). I've probably done this before as I was getting a deja vu vibe during the process. Sony SRGS (ignore the ultrasonic hump, I might have converted it with different parameters?): Spectrograms for 24/88 conversions of Take Five: Since I like the excitement and staging more than the texture improvements for this album, I would recommend them in the following order: The Sonys have better soundstaging and instrument positioning, and a more exciting presentation overall. I'd say the AP has slightly better instrument textures, but worse piano presence and channel balance than the Sonys. In some passages, the CS might have been a little clearer, but when I compared the histograms in Audacity they looked identical I struggled to hear any difference between the Sony SRGS 4535 and Sony CS 65122. The AP also has the piano more recessed sounding in general, and has a more polite presentation than the Sony SACDs. Listening on headphones, the AP has the piano at the beginning of Blue Rondo A La Turk and at the beginning of Strange Meadow Lark frustratingly partway to the right, compared to the Sony SACDs, which both have it dead center. The instruments themselves are more two-dimensional on the K2HD than the Sony SACDs. The K2HD has the most accentuated room sound, but it sounds more strictly like a reverb return about 12 feet behind the speakers and less like a wall reflecting the sound since there is less bloom than the Sony SACDs. The two Sony SACDs have much more room sound / more reverb return than the AP SACD. Sony Japan SRGS 4535 has inverted polarity from Sony US CS 65122 Interestingly, the two Sony gold Mastersounds, CK 52860 and CK 64408 are digitally identical, other than slightly different indexing on Take Five. I haven't really given SRCS 9631 or the Legacy set a chance yet. I never knew the standard 1997 US CD was HDCD, but I checked mine and sure enough it is, even though it has no markings, as mentioned above. ![]() I'm comparing them for y'all in this thread, and if anyone has any questions, ask me anything! ![]() I have nine different digital versions of Time Out
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