STEELY DAN, Greatest Hits ROBERT LUDWIG Masterdisk USA 1st pressing EXC- 2LP

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Steely Dan ?– Greatest Hits Label: ABC Records ?– AK-1107/2 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, SP, Gatefold  Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Jazz, Rock, Pop Style: Pop Rock, Fusion Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Do It Again 5:50 A2 Reeling In The Years 4:35 A3 My Old School 5:45 A4 Bodhisattva 5:18 B1 Show Biz Kids 5:21 B2 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo Written-By – Bubber Miley, Duke Ellington 2:46 B3 Rikki Don't Lose That Number 4:34 B4 Pretzel Logic 4:30 B5 Any Major Dude 3:06 C1 Here At The Western World 4:00 C2 Black Friday 3:39 C3 Bad Sneakers 3:16 C4 Doctor Wu 3:53 C5 Haitian Divorce 5:48 D1 Kid Charlemagne 4:38 D2 The Fez Written-By – Paul Griffin 3:54 D3 Peg 3:54 D4 Josie 4:30 Companies, etc. Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation Engineered At – Automated Sound Studios Mastered At – Masterdisk Credits Art Direction – Steve Bernstein (3) Bass, Guitar – Walter Becker Coordinator [Production Coordinator] – Karen Stanley Engineer – Al Schmitt, Barney Perkins, Bill Schnee, Elliot Scheiner, Roger Nichols Mastered By – Bob Ludwig Photography By [Cover] – Pete Turner (4) Photography By [Inside] – Anton Corbijn Producer – Gary Katz Vocals – Donald Fagen Written-By – Donald Fagen (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to D4), Walter Becker (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to D4)  Notes Specialty Records Corporation pressing, denoted by SP in label matrices. Engineered at Automated Sound, New York. Mastered at Masterdisk, New York. Includes inner sleeves. First pressing on multi-colored "target" label with eighth-note ABC logo. Cover photo at The Image Bank, New York 

USA FIRST PRESSING DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM IN TEXTURED GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVES.

Beloved of audiophiles who know a good thing when they hear one, this Greatest Hits collection was mastered by Robert Ludwig (who did such a great job on this collection that the band had him master its next album, Gaucho).  For once, something lives up to the hype; these masterings really are brilliant.  Alive, punchy, vibrant and concise, with a marvellous soundstage.

MATRIX: SRC AK-1107-2-A12 1-2 MASTERDISK / 1-3 SRC AK-1107B? -2-B-12 MASTERDISK RL / SRC AK-1107-2-C-13 1-1 MASTERDISK / 1-2 SRC AK-1107-2-D12 MASTERDISK

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVES VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISCS: EXCELLENT. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES, JUST A COUPLE OF FINGERPRINTS ON FIRST DISC, SECOND DISC DOES NOT LOOK PLAYED. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

• 1. USA BY MEDIA MAIL IS $5.19 FOR ANY AMOUNT OF LPs PURCHASED AND PAID FOR AT THE SAME TIME

          


• 2. INTERNATIONAL BY AIR MAIL [EXCEPT ITALY, WHICH IS $44.99 REGISTERED/SIGNED-FOR AIR MAIL] IS $27.99

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