Has anybody heard this LP? Fidelity First Volume 2 by Pigs Eye Jass on Insight Records. It has been on HP's list for the longest time, and a few months ago I heard it over at a friend's place, and the recording was among the best I've heard. Dixieland music but each instrument is very vivid and well defined. I hope I can get a copy.
Finally got hold of this record. In terms of recording quality, it does not disappoint. Dixieland or ragtime jazz does not really excite a lot of people but once in a while I do get to appreciate this kind of music, given the right mood, and with added help from a natural sounding recording like this, with a lot of tonal purity, specially on the trombone and tuba, it can be downright addicting. The piano rendition is also exemplary. Head and shoulders above many piano recordings I have heard.
I brought this record to the systems of both JackD201 and his brother who has the most extreme Von Schweickert system as posted in the pages here before. What a revelation. The apparent lower end limits of the Maggies clearly showed, as the drums in this recording is as naturally live as can be when I heard it on both the VR11s and the VR9s. The scale of course is bigger on the 11s but dynamically, both systems showed what a great recording can do. Each whack of the drum is clearly heard and felt and this is something completely missing essentially on my Maggies. And on the VR11 system, with all the turntables, arms, and cart combinations, the soundstage can clearly be 'seen', as in shrinking on one set of front end, and expanding on another combination. What a revealing record this is. And the more I listen to it, the more 'musical' it becomes.
And that is not even the same record as this one I posted. That one on ebay has a label called 'Douglas Dynamics', I have a friend who have that DD copy and I was able to compare mine with his. They are two different records. My copy, which is listed by HP in his Super list, has a label called 'Insight Records', so I'm not sure that the ebay copy is a 'volume 1' version of the copy I posted, as the label should be also from Insight Records to be a true Volume 1. The cut selections of the DD copy are not even entirely the same as the IR copy based on what I heard and seen, and hands down, the Insight Record sounds much better.
I wasn't sure because it wasn't the same cover as the one you posted. I was late to this thread, so I probably missed them already even if there were any available. A quick google search brings up What's Best Forum as the top entry
I wasn't sure because it wasn't the same cover as the one you posted. I was late to this thread, so I probably missed them already even if there were any available. A quick google search brings up What's Best Forum as the top entry