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Merry Christmas Mike!! Always enjoy your video’s. Stills was a great choice (although very difficult given Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Chick Corea to name just a few), but you missed Super Session w/Al Cooper. What an incredible history of music! Cheers

Question re AP's description of "Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab direct to DSD from a new 30 ips quarter-inch stereo master tape transferred from the original 3-track session tapes " - Does anyone know if the original 3-tracks were also recorded at 30 ips or at 15 ? If the latter, then the new 30 ips is obviously an upsample that doesn't really add anything to the resolution. Thank you.

I only purchase used records. Only on rare occasions will I pay $25-30 and only then for a long-time favorite.

Great Video man!

Why no Katy Lied, yet? And I have them all but do not play them as I do not have the gear yet to play them...

Great review Thank you 🙏🏾 Have a wonderful one

Buying separately another plus factor ALL LPS ARE SEALED! Box not.

Thank you! I look forward to your full review.

Thanks for the review Mike! Classic Album! VH and Van Haggar both are awesome to me. MOFI does it right for sure! I haven't heard VH 2 yet. Your review has me wanting to grab that one though.... I do have 1984 Mofi on preorder which should be shipping soon. That one is my favorite album with DLR. Keeping spinnin them Mike! Thanks again!

I agree with your Aja choice, I never get tired of listening to that album!

Awesome picks Mike ! When the question posed the Beatles or the Stones it's the latter for me only because I listen to the Stones more often. Great choices with respect to Neil Peart, the Doors and Steeley Dan as well. Cheers !

man whoever wrote these questions....pretty weak. pretty dull. Better off using AI.

A fun video Mike! Thanks for all you do. I'm with you on the Steely Dan Aja album as one I never get tired of....it's also one of my favorite albums, top ten for sure. Merry Christmas!

Thanks Mike I love checking out records of ALL kinds 👍✌️🤘 happy holidays brother

Great choices bro!😊

Great video Mike ! Pre-ordered the SACD, can’t wait! 💿

I slept on the blue vinyl variant, so when I finally pulled the trigger, they cancelled my order because it was oversold. Ended up ordering it on black vinyl. Would definitely have enjoyed it on blue. But it's about the music in the end. Thanks for articulating your impressions of this excellent release.

Well Mike, it comes as no surprise that this album is a must-have for the jazz collection. The blue vinyl looks absolutely stunning. Thanks for the review !

What a great review, I got mine four days ago and I am blown away by this record. I ordered mine late and got the black vinyl press, but I am very pleased with it, especially for the price.

I Can´t find a store, to buy Lyn Stanley Live at studio A,. It sounds fantastic in youtube, imagine that 2x45rpm vinyl was amazing. Where did you find it? Thanks for your attention.

Not all prostitutes work without clothes. Cenk always kept a sharp eye on the profit end of things, now he has gone for it, shameless and traitorous and hopefully he will be ignored.

Another MFSL album that's actually worth the premium price is the first Boston album. The difference is amazing, they did a phenomenal job on the tape transfer.

@thomashertl3037 vor 5 Stunden It‘s astounding to learn that vinyl loving people are still entrusting MoFi with parts of their wallets. I thought their analogue heydays were over since …

Excellent review Mike ! My situation is the opposite of yours where I have early pressings of both records but neither of the Mobile Fidelity represses. I got to say that these rereleased records undoubtedly sound fantastic and are on the wish list. Incidentally Lotus will be released soon, just can't wait for that one either.

I just briefly sampled "Blues For Salvador" and it sounds very good. The song "I'm Gone" sounds pure '80s, and the version of "Stormy" on "Inner Secrets" is a good one. I will probably get both albums.

Mobile Fidelity equals garbage. Bad digital remasters with rotten sound. Thin sterile sound on most of their releases going back a long time. These people are crooks and liars imo. Owned by the same scumbags as Music Direct. Prices are high. Complete waste of money.

I notice you always buy a lot of records from Mobile Fidelity I hear a lot of other audiophiles who have sent their records back because of the digital step they use You must really like the sound quality of the Mobile Fidelity records so how do you feel about all the hoopla that caused the company??

Try the Hyperion 968.

Congratulations man, audiophile sound once exposed to it its like a genie in a bottle! You have to hear it everyday!😊

Mike, so glad to hear about your great adventure with the new speakers. I've heard them and they are truly remarkable. Your retirement will be a lot of fun.

Congrats I have the older watt puppy 3/2 your speakers are a lot better than mine , and mine sound very good can’t imagine how good yours sound . Love you’re channel congrats Sir.

You can play segments of a song. Listening to you just talk is boring. This sounds like a ridiculous promotion. When I heard these speakers in the local dealer, they sounded boomy and bass heavy in a bad way. They also are too small to reproduce a full symphony orchestra. You only get a miniature representation. What are you using for a preamp and amplifier?

Disappointed you didn’t play anything in the 35 minutes you were saying how wonderful the speakers were Let’s hear those things!!!!!!!

So good to see you Mike and hear all about your audio excursions 🤘 im living a bit vicariously through you, and i gotta tell ya man its been fun! Edit: Mike it almost sounds like these speakers came back and found you! Youve come full circle! No more shelling out for hotels in Vegas..!✌️🤘😁

I had the pleasure of buying the Wilson Sasha DAW speakers that had been floor models. Great speakers. I can only imagine how the Alexia, etc. sound.

Hi Mike, I am happy to report that my Sasha V have arrived at my dealer. Working with ASC on treating my final spot of concern, my double solid ash entry door. Can’t believe you picked “The Pretender”. Long been a test LP for me. Try Roxy Music Avalon and Van Morrison Avalon Sunset. Question, what are your preamp/amp choices? So happy for you!!

GM ☕️🍩☃️ Aspirational 👍

You did this to me! I now have the upgrade bug 🤨😪. I actually started to renovate my system and didn't take my own advice since I like to buy used. I just bought some mono block amps that were too good to pass up. Next is either speakers of preamplifier (after new cables since mine are no longer the right lengths). Dang you!!! Love following your enthusiasm for the new "holy grail" speakers 😬

very happy for you Mike, you just seem like a very nice and kind person so all the good to you. Interesting that you said the Wilson are doing a "complete, full sound" and so handling the bass really well. This is the main reason why my psaudio FR30 are leaving TODAY. the bit harsh highs were ok to me, with very few records it got too much like with The Doors albums and some of their noices/instruments. But the lag of full range bass handling was a nogo for me. Can´t wait how the Gauder Berlina RC9 with new diamond high and midrange drivers will handle my electronics and room. I would bet that everything is very well incl. bass and I´m happy on every level and not just the great midrange and deepest bass. Really sorry that these most beautiful speakers will leave, I even like the looks a bit more as the Gauder, but they are very beautiful too and buildquality is much higher. In the end the sound is more important so the FR30 will be gone in some hours. Lost over 10k on that purchase but it would have been way more if I would have waited some years. With the Speakers comes a Acoustic Signature Montana Neo, their TA7000 Neo and the PhonePreamp Tango Apex Neo. Cartridge will be my old Clearaudio Goldfinger. Can´t wait how this combo will sound I will listen to many of the records you have shown today and my days will just be like yours, listening to everything I love the most. America Debut Album and the Song Sandman will be the first song I will listen to Alan Parsons Project I-Robot - Some other time will follow Michael Jackson Thriller with Thriller will follow then because of the soundstage you can test so nicely with the opening UHQRs from Steely Dan also a must

Just ordered mine in cobalt blue, I was leaning toward the Sasha V but the watt puppies are a very close second. And here’s a true test: play Toto’s first album and see how gracefully these speakers handle that harsh recording. Glad you are not listening to abstract audiophile music but real music! “Guitar etude 3” on the fogelberg album is an outstanding song and so beautifully captured.

Mike, you mentioned you were planning on updating interconnects. I received a pair of Silversmith Fedelium XLRs this past week that you may want to consider. Still breaking them in. I kind of broke the cardinal rule of only making one change at a time this time. Only days after I received the interconnects PS Audio came out with their new Mt. Blue Sky software update for their fgpa based DAC so, of course, I had to download and install it. Both upgrades are fantastic but, of course, now it’s difficult to tell exactly what is coming from what. Life is good!

Play the music ......let the speakers, system do the talking.

The Beatles Story is THE best album the Fabs ever did... so underrated. 🤣

I tought also 290€ isn't worth the box, but I was lucky and was able to buy it for 190€ at Amazon and that is a reasonable price, not 290, thats just insane and shamless

These are definitely two jazz icons that must be heard. I'll be streaming these albums asap. Thanks Mike for the reviews.

4 of the 5 albums i bought caused my needle to jump out of the groove. Even after i clean each of them, the needle jumped straight out at the exact same spot. Anyone know how can i fix this?

Respectful and fantastic review. Thank You.

Over 60 years not 69

Yes I was a fool, bought the blue vinyl, was so excited to remember what it felt like to put in the vinyl back in 1964, well I don't know what happened, but after I played this new meet the Beatles, I wish I missed the meeting, wow it sounds horrible , the mono with the Beatles , the mono please please me vinyl I have over 69 years old, sound awesome, powerful full of life, energy, this one , new 1964 repress of us meet the Beatles sounds like , I don't have the word, but I can tell you the word is not love

Great decorated walls. Thanks for your intro to the box. Surely valuable for fanatic collectors and those who are used to the US mastering sound. I will keep the Hard Day‘s Night soundtrack album which is all true mono and actually sounds pretty good. Still, at least for those who were used to the original UK masterings, the UK monos are still the ultimate.