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Habe google nochmal zum Thema Simply Vinyl durchforstet. Wie zu erwarten, kam nichts Gutes dabei rum. (Auf mehrere mails von meiner Seite haben sie nie reagiert). Hier ein Text von www.musicangle.com:
Much confusion, speculation and false conjecture surrounds these European vinyl reissues—created in part by a sloppily produced, mediocre sounding mid-nineties Warners vinyl titles (Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, etc.) and especially by the flood of vinyl from Simply Vinyl, a label that seems to pay more attention to the packaging and pressing than to the quality of the source material. Some of the Simply Vinyl reissues sound quite fine (particularly the EMI owned titles mastered at Abbey Road, including the Nick Drake and Free albums), and some sound like sonic road kill—as if the source was a commercial CD, which it very well may have been!
When I contacted a Simply Vinyl spokesperson to find out about sources, I was told that the company was not an “audiophile” label, and that it was more interested in keeping vinyl alive than it was concerned about sound quality. I’m paraphrasing, but essentially he told me, “Our research shows that our buyers don’t really care about sound quality and that only a few percent call themselves ‘audiophiles.”
I wondered how he would know anything about who buys the records. I’ve seen them sold in record stores and on line. Was a Simply Vinyl employee standing there asking why the person bought one of their titles? Of course not! And by not listing the source, he was not going to get audiophile buyers, and so the whole exercise was a self-fulfilling prophecy. I suggested, “Perhaps if you listed the source of each release, you’d get more audiophile buyers.”
I made an offer, “If you give me a list of a dozen titles sourced from the original analog master tape, I will alert the people who read my column in Stereophile (this was before musicangle.com) and perhaps more audiophiles will buy Simply Vinyl releases. If there’s a spike in sales of those titles, you can feed me some more.” He thought that was a good idea and promised to get back to me with a list. As I expected, he never did.
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