Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns NIMBUS SUPERCUT AUDIOPHILE NEAR MINT
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Jul 2, 2022 Sold Date
Jun 25, 2022 Start Date
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 Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns NIMBUS SUPERCUT AUDIOPHILE NEAR MINT
From my own collection, owned and treasured from new and I will try to give you as accurate description as I can.  The Vinyl is Near Mint and plays and sounds absolutely amazing! The only thing stopping it from being a near perfect copy is a very small light non feelable hairline at beginning of first track second side - rest of vinyl is immaculate and there is a crease mark on very bottom left of  gatefold cover (see pics). 
The limited edition UK Nimbus Supercut Records were mail-order only audiophile vinyl LPs, pressed & mastered for readers of 'Hi-Fi Today' and 'Practical Hi-Fi' magazines. It is easily the best ever pressing you are likely to come across - a limited edition (about 1,000 copies were pressed) and are virgin vinyl bonifide Supercut.  Nimbus Records have somewhat legendary status within the audiophile circle for their  "Supercut" releases, they mastered each release from the original master tapes, with stunning dynamics.
A SPECIAL NOTE: At first glance, this could appear as a standard UK issue of this Joni classic. But no, this is a rare and elusive Supercut audiophile pressing mastered and pressed by Nimbus Records exclusively for readers of Hi-fi magazines Practical Hi-fi and Hi-fi Today in the early 1980s.  The company mastered each release from the original master tapes using the best available mastering processes and the discs were pressed on the highest quality vinyl available. Every album had it’s own unique sound, thus all are highly sort-after and collectable. It  offers truly sublime sound that leads you directly into the recording studio – that is what they fully intended to do. Readers of these specialist magazines were not casual listeners, far from it. These were often people prepared to spend a king’s ransom in equipment to glean every last possible fragment of information from the source. it was apparent there was real bass in the mix and the vocals are simply breathtaking. Also the total lack of surface noise, such a shame all records were not pressed up to this standard. The difference has to lie in the lack of mass unit production – these were strictly limited pressings and made with utmost care and precision for the discerning listener market. In fact within the audiophile and audiophile super pressing market, these are amongst the rarest ever made – and arguably the very best too. To fully appreciate the difference, they are best enjoyed on top quality equipment and few collectors and fans of this legendary artist will be disappointed. It is one of the harder Nimbus supercut albums to find and is seldom seen or offered.  
This edition was mastered and pressed exclusively for readers of Practical Hi-Fi magazine & available by mail order only.

    • Matrix / Runout (A): NIMBUS ENGLAND K53018-A3 NRL JWG 3 MPT V JH
    • Matrix / Runout (B): NIMBUS ENGLAND K53018-B2 NRL JWG 3 MPT V JH

    Joni Mitchell – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

    Label: Asylum Records – K53018, Nimbus Records – K53018 Series: Supercut Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Gatefold Country: UK Released: 1983




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