Grateful Dead

I haven't bought any Mobile Fidelity L.Ps., but I have been buying more vinyl recently-and as you say, the experience of taking a record out of its sleeve, placing it on the turn table, and devoting 20 minutes to it is great-unique. I started buying albums in 1972, and its surprising to me how good most of them still sound. Also surprising that I though cds sounded better when they first came out. The powers of suggestion! Two L.P.s I have bought recently are the Jimi Hendrix double "Freedom"- the live show from Georgia om 4th July 1970 and Cream's "Wheel of Fire". They both sound very powerful, and seem to fill the speakers more than cds do. The cover of "Wheels of Fire" by Martin Sharp is also brilliant. The detail of this art work simply cannot be adequately replicated on smaller mediums like cds. I'll keep my eye open for Mobile Fidelity albums and see whats available.

I have been buying Mobile Fidelity Lps for years. Started off with The Beatles box set a long time ago. Mobile Fidelity uses virgin vinyl and half-speed mastering from the original sound tapes. They spend a lot of time getting everything "just right." To me, at 71, nothing is more satisfying than a well made LP, a tube amp, and a "good" cold beer and a bowl of pipe tobacco in a well carved Grateful Dead meerschaum pipe. Getting back to the issue...if you are use to listening to Mp3 stuff and think it sounds great then I would suggest you do not bother. If you have a "good" stereo/headphones then by all means buy the dead on Mobile Fidelity. If I remember correctly some of the Dead's Lps are done on virgin vinyl. One has to look carefully at the notes on the covers. If you have a "favorite" dead LP then spend the money and treat yourself to a wonderful sonic experience. Life is short! The other question is how do they sound compared to all the new MQA/high digital downloads. I don't know and probably never will. Vinyl has a sound that is, to me, just sweet. I like holding the cover(s) in my aging fingers and reading the liner notes and reading about how the music was made. Lp people tend to want to sit down and "listen" to the music. It is a pain-in-the-butt to get up, every twenty minutes or so, and flip the lp but the satisfaction I get from it is worth all the hassles. If you are always in a hurry and are updating your facebook account every twenty two minutes than Lps are not for you. LPs, are for me, a way of taking the time to absorb the music experience. And yes...I do listen to Cd's. I have thousands of them. They sound good/great but the "experience" is NOT the same as listen to an LP... at least for me. It does my heart good to see people getting back to LPs...especially young people. One writer commented that the thought LPs were a spiritual thing. So, to answer the original question from and earlier post, there is a big difference between normal pressed Lp's and Mobile Fidelity Lp's. Is the price difference worth it...that is for you to decide. I have! Mr. Pete------> aging hippie

I'm so politically incorrect, ain't I? :)

1. Dark Matter. Completely invisible to telescopes and the human eye, it neither emits nor absorbs visible light (or any form of electromagnetic radiation), but its gravitational effect is evident in the motions of galaxy clusters and individual stars. -Scientific community 2. Light like a feather, heavy as lead. How can you ever give your more to receive your less? -Bob Marley 3. Why can't my wife/girlfriend stop talking for even 5 minutes? How about just for the first 60 seconds when I walk through the door after work...just let me take my shoes off and throw my keys on the dresser before you start in. Is that really too much to ask? -Dantian, and every other male ever born.

....I don't have the hearing of a canine. It all sounds good. Easy to pleasy to my inner ear. No help here. Sorry (~};)Good to hear icecrmcnkd got his. Crank it to 11!!! ps. The Florida Panthers have never won the Cup. Let alone in their first year. You're high....

Is there really that big of a difference on these MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LAB recordings that are floating around out there of "CLASSIC" albums. I figure this would be a good group of folks to ask this question to. I appreciate any input.

Duh . . . Healy mixing, Betty recording. Got it.

Even my dog was groovin’

You're right about me not liking it but you got me all wrong... ...I fucking love it. Just because one song is sloppy at the end for a little bit, that doesn't mean I'm not gonna listen to the show repeatedly. Beauty lies in the imperfections, I guess, because I'm addicted to the music. I got my copy on Saturday and I'm 3 listens in already...I'm just getting started.

The FL Panthers won the cup their first season then slumped......