Mark Levinson Acoustic Records"Vol. Four"2 Lp RARE/MINT

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This is another of those lovely Mark Levinson Acoustic Recording Series. This is "Vol. Four" performed by The New Haven Brass Quintet.The quintet consist of David Balwin-trumpet, Grant Keast-trumpet, Christine Snyder-horn, Theodore Toupin-trombone, and Kenneth Singleton-tuba. The group is performing 12 classical chamber pieces by various composers. This is a 2 Lp set, lovingly put together by the New Haven Brass Quintet.  All of Mark Levinson records are of the highest quality and these are no exception.

“Mark Levinson Audio Systems built special equipment for use with calibration microphones and high speed wide track tape format to create virtually noiseless, ultra low distortion master tapes, without noise reduction systems.

Robert Ludwig mastered the records by feeding the original tape through a custom miser directly into the cutting amplifier rack with no filtering, limiting or other added effects.

CDIS manufacturer of Philips and D.G.G. records in France developed special pressing techniques to produce the most quite record surfaces possible with material and technology available in that period.

Producing records in that manner was not practical by conventional industry standards, as it requires a great deal of time, and patience. Achieving no-compromise quality means sacrificing convenience and cost effectiveness, in favor of what we know to be the best possible way.

For the Acoustic Sound Recording Series, musicians were asked to prepare programs which could be released without splicing passages. In this way, the coherency and immediacy of the musical event. Rather than the note-by-note perfection of spliced tape, are preserved.

Note; The records reproduces clearly the sound of concert hall the “air” or “space” around the music itself. Natural sound is brought out by playback at a volume level that corresponds to the spatial reality of the music. Taking care to find this level adds to the realism of the sound you hear in your room.”

The vinyl on both records on all four sides is MINT. The cover is VG++ with a ding on the top edge of the gate fold cover as its only flaw.

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