ANA[DIA]LOG | Discussing vinyl mastering issues & costs with Speakers Corner’s president Kai Seemann @anadialog | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
The MoFi scandal has posed several concerns and questions among the vinyl community. Not only on the cutting sources of audiophile records but also their mastering issues and costs. Many of us have ideas of the production chain, in most cases probably erroneous (including myself), but only who produces 100% AAA analog records like Speakers Corner can inform us with facts and not opinions and help us understand better what is behind this type of productions. Hence, this interview with the president of Speakers Corner, Kai Seemann.
Speakers Corner Records: speakerscornerrecords.com
Pure Analogue website: pure-analogue.com
CORRECTION (a word from K. Seemann): All our classical titles were mastered from the original master tapes, no exception. So are the titles from the Warner Music catalogue which we publish since 2007, also no exception. This applies also to all titles from Universal and Sony where the original masters are stored in Europe.
So only US-sourced titles from Universal and Sony are mastered from tape copies, which is not a bad thing as we already agreed upon. And these were newly made copies made directly made from the original masters. So not working copies decades old...
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The MoFi scandal has posed several concerns and questions among the vinyl community. Not only on the cutting sources of audiophile records but also their mastering issues and costs. Many of us have ideas of the production chain, in most cases probably erroneous (including myself), but only who produces 100% AAA analog records like Speakers Corner can inform us with facts and not opinions and help us understand better what is behind this type of productions. Hence, this interview with the president of Speakers Corner, Kai Seemann.
Speakers Corner Records: speakerscornerrecords.com
Pure Analogue website: pure-analogue.com
CORRECTION (a word from K. Seemann): All our classical titles were mastered from the original master tapes, no exception. So are the titles from the Warner Music catalogue which we publish since 2007, also no exception. This applies also to all titles from Universal and Sony where the original masters are stored in Europe.
So only US-sourced titles from Universal and Sony are mastered from tape copies, which is not a bad thing as we already agreed upon. And these were newly made copies made directly made from the original masters. So not working copies decades old...
More Ana[dia]log groove:
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/ana.dia.log
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/anadialog1
TWITTER: twitter.com/anadialog
#speakerscorner #vinylcommunity #vinylmastering