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I just read some of that Pink FLoyd website! Its one of the most comprehensive site ive ever seen for imports. Everything i ever wanted to know is right there! Look at this extract and flip out. Cant beleive I found this out.
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In 1983, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab also released an Original Master Recording High Fidelity Cassette reissue of the Pink Floyd album, Dark Side of the Moon.
Listening Test: In the late 1980s, a blind listening test was conducted at the University of Miami. An MFSL record, cassette, and CD of the same album were played to a group of listeners, and the Original Master Recording High Fidelity Cassette was consistently picked as the best sounding copy.------------------------------------------------------------
Im sure record players in 1981 were not as good as the turntables today. Not saying much about the cartridges those days. But the news is stunning the same. Wish i could get my hands on one of those tapes. If someone had one im sure that it must be worn out allready.
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I have virtually every MOFI cassette they made including DSOM.They are indeed very nice, but not even close to the vinyl. Who ever did the test must have had one clunker of a TT.
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Never mind the cart., what TT did they conduct the test with? I bet it wasn't an LP12. : )
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Sounds like someone here is converting to the LP12 truth :)Im sure the test was on some direct drive technics or pioneer.
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"He said he may release High Fidelity Real Time duplicated cassettes for music lovers without SACD players as cassettes are at least musical and don't destroy the essence of the music."
Sony SCD-777ES > > Silver Audio SB 4.0 > > AI M3A > > Silver Audio Hyacinth > > Odyssey Stratos > > Tice 416A Bi-wire > > MG 1.6 QR
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I have two of the Mofi cassettes, and the LP and CD. While it's been some time since I've listened to the tape, I cannot imagine the tape beating the LP in any way, except *maybe* lack of surface noise.Then again, the tapes were recorded at a very low level, so they're fairly *hissy* as far as cassettes go.
If you're really curious, I can pull them out & try them this weekend, but I doubt it'll be any great revelation...
Here is the quoteDark Side of the Moon LP production note: In a recent interview, Gregg Schnitzer of MFSL revealed, "Did you know that the Dark Side of the Moon master was ruined? Somebody put it on a recorder instead of a playback-only mastering deck, and a little piece of Supertramp got dubbed onto the outro of Breathe. Big secret, that. Stan had left the company so a redo wasn't gonna happen. Makes me seriously wonder where MFSL got the source for the Dark Side of the Moon CD. Hmmm. It would have had to have been a second generation safety or the digital master I made for the cassette run."
Yes, this is true that the very small portion of the master tape was damaged ala 'Supetramp' but the tape is back in service and doing fine. The "damaged" portion of the master tape was repaired by splicing in tape from a safety copy. Fear not, 'DSOTM' has made a healthy recovery...
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