Any opinions on Analogue Productions gold CD's?

[Matt]

Has anyone checked these out? I've seen ads for them, particularly new SACD's that have been tube-mastered by Doug Sax. I'd like to see how their "Waltz For Debby" and "Way Out West" compare with the K2's and the XRCD's from JVC.

[Claus]

Way Out West was remastered twice by AP... Chad Kassem couldn't "decide" who should remaster Way Out West. So Bernie Grundman and Doug sax did the remastering... 2 CDs at the same time. I have compared both... The Doug sax remaster has a little bit more air!

BUT the new xrcd remaster sound better...

[David R. Modny]

The Weavers Carnegie Hall '63 disc is great. Though, this is such a great recording, it would take alot of work to mess it up. I'd say judging by the sound of the applause, Doug may have added a smidgen of 13-15k top ("air"). I have a reissue on LP (which everyone's favorite "audiophile", Harry Pearson referred to as a "joke"), which I think sounds just fine too.

The original recording was made using three Schoeps condensors fed into an Ampex 300, using Scotch 201 - tube mastered by Doug.

P.S. I also remember when Absolute Sound had the "shoot-out", in print, between the two versions of "Way Out West". Always funny to listen to these audio types debate it like some kind of stinky-cheese, wine-tasting test...lol!

[David R. Modny]

Mastering Lab:

[KLM]

I have several of AP's Gold cd's (including Art Pepper, Count Basie, Dizzy Gilespie, Sonny Boy Williamson, etc.) and overall think the sound quality is excellent. Highly Recommended.