JONI MITCHELL, The Hissing of Summer Lawns NIMBUS SUPERCUT UK AUDIOPHILE NM LP
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UK NIMBUS SUPERCUT VINYL LP IN GATEFOLD.
Joni's best album? Probably...Is this the best pressing of this album? Possibly...We have compared this with a USA RE-1 first pressing, a USA white label promo and a UK first EMI pressing - and...and...it may well be the best pressing of this album, it certainly has the quietest and finest quality vinyl we have ever heard, the dynamics are stunning and the bass, well, the bass is finally where it should be: sat firmly in the groove. These Nimbus pressings definately managed to achieve something in the lower end that no other mastering did - so, like all things in life, it may well ultimately be a matter of personal taste, but one thing is for sure, this is a mighty fine audiophile pressing that is getting increasingly hard to find these days at any price.
These UK limited edition Nimbus Supercut Records were mail-order only audiophile vinyl LPs, pressed & mastered for readers of 'Hi-Fi Today' magazine. Gerald Reynolds, the owner of Nimbus record company, said to the English magazine Hi-Fi News & Record Review (July, 2010): "One of the hi-fi magazines in the 1970s, Practical Hi-Fi did a wonderful job in getting the original master tapes for LPs, from artists like Supertramp and Joan Armatrading and we cut and pressed them as supercuts. Although we archived one of everything, we did not keep stocks - which is a real pity because they now change hands at hundreds of pounds a time ".
Nimbus Records have somewhat legendary status within the audiophile circle for their 'Supercut' releases, which were only available by mail order through the Hi-fi magazines 'Practical Hi-fi' and 'Hi-fi Today' in the early 1980s. Nimbus mastered each release from the original master tapes using the best available mastering processes, employing many techniques for each release that were not commonly used. For example, generally when bass moves from channel to channel on an LP, groove modulation is employed to reduce the movement of the stylus and this results in this bass being centered more over both channels. Most audiophiles would argue that this - and in fact anything, which changes the original recording should be avoided although this is common practice on most LPs. For example, the release of 'Joan Armatrading' had bass moving from channel to channel in several places, but Nimbus did not limit this, resulting in an outstanding pressing.
Nimbus also had the ICI company produce an extremely pure vinyl for the LPs, which has amazing frequency reproduction and is virtually noise free - similar in quality to the 'super vinyl' used on earlier Mofi pressings. Due to their rarity and small pressing quantities, they are often more expensive than audiophile LPs from other labels, but the sums paid can be justified by the outstanding quality of the pressings and the fact that they tend to rise in value over time and as such are deemed as investments by some audiophiles. Other releases included Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here', Beatles 'Sgt Pepper' and Wings 'Band on the Run' and many other excellent titles.
MATRIX NUMBERS IN RUN-OFF GROOVES: SIDE A: NIMBUS ENGLAND K53018-A3 ? JWG 3 MPT V TH / SIDE B: NIMBUS ENGLAND K53018-B2 ? JWG 3 MPT V JH
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT MINUS, JUST LIGHT SHELF AND EDGE WEAR, SMALL PRICE STICKER MARK TOP RIGHT FRONT.
DISC: NEAR MINT. THIS ALBUM WAS BOUGHT NEW IN THE EARLY 1980s IN A NEW-OLD-STOCK VINYL SALE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT THESE DISCS DID NOT SELL THAT WELL AT THE TIME AND MANY COULD BE FOUND FOR A FEW QUID BRAND NEW IN THE LATE '70s and EARLY 1980s, OFTEN AT AUDIO FAIRS - HARD TO BELIEVE NOW! IT HAS BEEN PLAYED ABOUT 3 TIMES ON TOP END HI FI, IT HAS NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES AND NO SPINDLE WEAR. THE DISC PLAYS AND SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
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