#mobilefidelity — Public Fediverse posts
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#NowSpinning the latest addition to my collection, #SomethinElse by #CannonballAdderley.
This new OneStep by #MobileFidelity is pricey & DSD sourced. However, it’s my favourite hard bop album, one of my favourite #jazz albums & performances by #MilesDavis & so I had to add this, cut at 45, to my Blue Note Classic series cut.
I’ve listened to it once through & I’m impressed, but need to listen a few more times before I can compare.
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I’m not particularly lucky, but then I stumble across this at a local second hand store, sealed, for £14.99.
& so I’m #NowSpinning #BringingItAllBackHome by #BobDylan courtesy of #MobileFidelity.
This is just one of two missing entries in my #MoFi Dylan collection, & so I’m really happy to have this.
But how does it sound? Compared with a 1st UK stereo, it’s an improvement. Against an early UK mono, it’s less definitive. But what an album.
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Another late birthday gift & I’m #NowSpinning the #MobileFidelity reissue of #ThisYearsModel by #ElvisCostello & the Attractions.
This is probably my 2nd favourite of the Costello albums, but contains my favourite song, ‘This Year’s Girl’, which is just glorious.
I’ve compared the #MoFi & it is easily bettered by the 1st UK Porky Prime cut. The MoFi’s too refined, lacks bite & is less cohesive, whereas the 1st UK kicks ass: as it should.
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Late birthday gift arrived today & so I’m #NowSpinning #ArmedForces by #ElvisCostello & the Attractions.
This is the repressing by #MobileFidelity & I’m just done comparing it with a UK OG. There are audible differences between the two - the UK is punkier with more punch, but the #MoFi has better definition with hidden detail rising to the surface: the backing vocals & piano coming to the fore. But I’m not sure I prefer one over the other.
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Following up from yesterday, I’ve now had chance to listen to #JohnWesleyHarding again, but this time the 45 cut by #MobileFidelity.
As with some of their other reissues, this is a mixed bag. Over all, it’s likely an improvement: #BobDylan’s voice is front, centre, & v. natural. The harmonica is tamed & better handled than both the 1st UK mono & stereo. However, the bass is, on occasion, weirdly extended (it’s wacky on Frankie Lee).
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Having taken a long break from his #music (for obvious reasons), I was intrigued & then disappointed by #RyanAdam’s recent output. This then sent me into his back catalogue: a reminder of that incredible run of albums from #Heartbreaker through to #EasyTiger.
I’m #NowPlaying #LoveIsHell, a reissue by #MobileFidelity, the best sounding of his albums on #vinyl & the songwriting is, in places, exceptional, #Halloween, an outtake, being my favourite.
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#NowListening to #BlondeOnBlonde by #BobDylan, cut in mono by #RyanKSmith from today’s #VinylMePlease haul.
This is my 2nd listen & my only mono. The #VMP stands up well to my 1st UK stereo press and proves a compelling listen, cohesion, punch, & natural bass.
The #MobileFidelity, cut at 45, has more space, more detail - but it’s a silly comparison. That #MoFi doesn’t sound like any other version I’ve heard. Plus, it’s cut in stereo, at 45, from DSD.
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Sticking with #BobDylan for a while longer & #NowPlaying #LoveAndTheft.
This #MobileFidelity reissue sounds sumptuous, particularly at the low end with nimble bass & plenty of thump from that kick drum. Also love the sound of the guitars here: full, lush, & yet very natural.
Having spent time with Fragments over the past month or so, I can say that this version of #Mississippi is the true keeper. But, for me, Po’ Boy is perfect in its simplicity.
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Still recuperating from a nasty bout of Covid-19 & #NowListening to #TheFreeWheelinBobDylan by #BobDylan.
This is the stereo 45 by #MobileFidelity & easily beats my first UK stereo for clarity, tone & musicality. These Dylan #MoFis, despite being DSD sourced, are so well done & so enjoyable to listen to. In fact, I wish I’d picked up the mono pressings alongside the stereo - they really are *that* good.
And slight as it may be, I love Corrina, Corrina.
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Sat in the spring sunshine watching snow melt & I’m #NowListening to #Nefertiti by #MilesDavis.
This, cut at 45 by #MobileFidelity, is a new addition - & still in stock. This is just a great album, incredible musicianship, melodic, & well recorded. Oh, & it features the incomparable #WayneShorter who sadly passed last week.
The #MoFi cut has whisper silent blacks, dynamics to burn, rich tonality, & all sounds very natural, very realistic.
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Beginning of the weekend & #NowListening to #BitchesBrew by #MilesDavis.
It took me quite a while to begin to see the patterns in apparent randomness of this: but it’s grown on me & continues to fascinate.
This is the repress by #MobileFidelity at 33 1/3. I don’t yet have anything to compare this with (I’m awaiting the anniversary edition which, unlike this, is AAA). But as is generally the case with #MoFi Miles, this is dynamic, spacious, & detailed.
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Just watched #MUFC put Leeds United in their place & I’m #NowListening to #FillesDeKilimanjaro by #MilesDavis. I’m only just beginning to get my head around his electric period - & this, along with #ASilentWay - is very much at the shallow end. Naff album title aside, I’m digging it.
This is the #MobileFidelity 45. I don’t have anything with which to compare, but I’ll go so far as to say this is dynamic, airy, with bags of detail.
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Another weekend & I’m #NowListening to #OhMercy by #BobDylan.
Listening obsessively to #Fragments, the latest Bootleg Series entry, has led me to the best sounding version of the best sounding Dylan album: the #MobileFidelity reissue at 45. Compared with my UK 1st pressing, the #MoFi wins out: better dynamics, definition, separation, & sound stage.
And then there’s #RingThemBells & #ManInTheLongBlackCoat: wonderful & weird in equal measure.
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Sunday afternoon, eschewing the mellow & instead #NowListening to #JackJohnson by #MilesDavis.
When it comes to #jazz, I’m normally a hardbop guy & this is assuredly not that. But I am a guitarist & when #JohnMcLaughlin cuts loose, it’s something else: heavy, discordant, spiky, with Miles anchoring the melody over everything.
This is the #MoFi reissue & sounds properly three dimensional, very natural, with incredible dynamics.
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Sunday PM, nothing to do, no place to be, & so I’m #NowListening to #MilesDavis #MyFunnyValentine, another great reissue by #MobileFidelity.
Whilst this isn’t my favourite performance from Miles, I do love the title track & Stella by Starlight.
This is stereo & my only comparator is an early UK mono, which is scuffed up - so it’s apples & oranges really.
The MoFi is unsurprisingly richer, wider soundstage, better separation & with more punch.
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Saturday morning & #NowListening to a treasured #album, #BloodOnTheTracks by #BobDylan.
The #MobileFidelity #OneStep, cut at 45, shimmers & sparkles with detail & depth, without losing the sense of intimacy which makes this album so special.
When compared with an early UK, the 2007 reissue, & the #MoFi 33, the OneStep wins without reservation. Listening to #IdiotWind right now & the OneStep retains the power without the muddiness of some pressings.
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Sticking with the #MilesDavis theme, I’m #NowPlaying #Milestones again for the multiple time this week.
I’m #NowListening to the #MobileFidelity pressing to confirm my recollection. It’s very close between this & the #KevinGray cut (#ColumbiaLegacy). The #MoFi sounds warmer which suits, perhaps, the surging horns of, say, Sid’s Ahead. The Legacy, however, wins out in nimbleness & pace as, for example, on Straight, No Chaser.
Both sound very, very good.
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Morning, the rain has broken, hot coffee to hand & #NowPlaying #SketchesOfSpain for the second time in a row. I love #MilesDavis with #GilEvans. Between this and #PorgyandBess, this wins out. #Saeta is quite unlike anything else I can bring to mind - that soulful horn, with the weird drone deep in the background then breaking into a march… Evocative stuff.
This is the #MobileFidelity 33, the best version I’ve heard by a country mile.