Recommendable Releases of 'Live Dead'
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Talkin' about different Vinyl releases of the classic album 'Live Dead' :
In other Rock Music & Hifi Forums (Audio Talk UK, Steve Hoffman Forum) I've found several disappointed buyers of the recently remastered, numbered, expensive edition released on
'Mobile-Fidelity'.
Compared to recommendable Warner or Rhino pressings from the seventies until today, many listeners stated that the Mobile Fidelity edition of 'Live Dead' sounds too clinical & polished; according to those buyers, it has a higher resolution but the music lacks in warmness & naturalness, in some tracks also in spacial resolution.
Well, I have not bought nor listened to this MoFi-LP of 'Live Dead' yet.
But I have the very first US pressing (with textfold insert graphic of St. Stephen) and the very first German pressing in my collection - both released on
Warner Brothers Seven Arts in 1969. (Later releases in Germany & America were on Warner Brothers only, without 'Seven Arts' on the logo; in France & England the first pressings in 1969 were on a red or green Warner label.)
In comparison to later Warner pressings from the early and mid-seventies, those first pressings are a bit more dynamic & clearer in my ears.
So, since there is already some discussion that these remastered Mofi releases, despite of a higher solution, do not match the Warner pressings of the seventies, I would not be surprised if the first Warner pressings of 1969 put those MoFi-recording even more to shame....
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