"My tastes are very simple - I like only the best." So said Oscar Wilde in the 1800s - and it is this sentiment that animates one Ed Pong, the driving force behind Ultra Analogue, a preeminent source of master tape duplicates.
The proof of the pudding, of course, is in the tasting thereof ... and it is to that end, dear tape lovers, that I draw your attention to Ultra Analogue's most recent releases - six in all - each featuring the preternaturally talented violinist, Tatsuki Narita, who is poised at the the cusp of classical music's big time ... I **** you not, he's that good!
That's nice, you say, but you're really not that into chamber music ... gimme The Beatles, Blues, Jazz
... whatever ... anything but, God forbid, chamber music, you say.
Okay, put that aside for the moment and let me appeal to the AUDIOPHILE side of your brain.
Ed Pong has been - and continues to be - pushing the audio envelope, and in collaboration with his technical guru, the estimable Tony Ma, has instituted a series of upgrades in the recording chain that have reached such a level of sonic purity and transparency as to qualify as a major step forward - nay, a BREAKTHROUGH - in the sonic arts.
The proof of the pudding, of course, is in the tasting thereof ... and it is to that end, dear tape lovers, that I draw your attention to Ultra Analogue's most recent releases - six in all - each featuring the preternaturally talented violinist, Tatsuki Narita, who is poised at the the cusp of classical music's big time ... I **** you not, he's that good!
That's nice, you say, but you're really not that into chamber music ... gimme The Beatles, Blues, Jazz
... whatever ... anything but, God forbid, chamber music, you say.
Okay, put that aside for the moment and let me appeal to the AUDIOPHILE side of your brain.
Ed Pong has been - and continues to be - pushing the audio envelope, and in collaboration with his technical guru, the estimable Tony Ma, has instituted a series of upgrades in the recording chain that have reached such a level of sonic purity and transparency as to qualify as a major step forward - nay, a BREAKTHROUGH - in the sonic arts.
