Re: (idm) pressing question: saw v.1

From Lance C McGannon
Sent Thu, Apr 9th 1998, 21:49

At 04:39 PM 4/9/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Philip Sherburne wrote:
>> 
>> no pun intended.  i just picked up the vinyl version of aphex twin's 
>>SAW 85-92, whatever the most recent pressing is.  and i gotta say, the 
>> vinyl doesn't sound so hot.  seems like a very shallow pressing (or so 
>> it seems to my thoroughly non-technical observations)--rather flat 
>> sound.  no depth to it.  not like i remember the cd sounding.
>> 
>
> The SAW I sounds dull and shallow on CD ... I don't think 
>the Record version of it will change anything.
>

if i remember correctly that compilation was put together
by friends of richard. tracks compiled from the many cassette
recordings he gave his friends. so if the tracks were mastered
from cassettes you can't expect great sound.

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