Analogue Productions Ultra Tape reel-to-reel reissues!
Twelve masterpiece titles, each a 15 ips, ¼-inch 2-track (½ track) analog tape copy
Sourced from original master tapes
Transferred using ATR-modified Ampex Tape Machine with flux magnetic heads
Custom slipcase cover – highest quality tape reissue!
From Acoustic Sounds, Inc., the world leader in audiophile music sales, comes the highest quality analog reel-to-reel tape album reissues — Analogue Productions Ultra Tape!
Twelve masterpiece titles are featured in this new reissue series, each a 15 ips, ¼-inch analog tape copy (IEC equalization) sourced from a copy of the original analog master tape. Transferred real-time, using an ATR-modified Ampex Tape Machine with flux magnetic heads. Custom slipcase cover. The first two titles — Janis Ian’s Breaking Silence and Ben Webster’s Gentle Ben are releasing before 2016 ends.
A longtime audiophile demonstration disc, Hope will show off your system’s dynamic range as well as any album ever released. Hugh Masekela, the outstanding South African trumpeter, assembled a seven-piece group and recorded this great set live at Washington, D.C.’s Blues Alley. The songs stretch over a period of nearly five decades and serve as an informal guided tour of Masekela’s life. The songs are honest and bare, and as for the sound — WOW!
Each Ultra Tape reissue copy is priced at $450. The entire series is available by subscription.
The remaining titles include: Rickie Lee Jones’ It’s Like This / Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances (the famous Turnabout recording) / Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Scheherazade (RCA Living Stereo) / Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Pines of Rome and Fountains of Rome (RCA Living Stereo) / Leopold Stokowski’s Rhapsodies (RCA Living Stereo) / René Leibowitz and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The Power of The Orchestra (RCA Living Stereo) / Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Lieutenant Kije and Stravinksy’s Song of the Nightingale (RCA Living Stereo) / Abel /Steinberg — Beethoven Violin Sonata (Wilson Audio) / and Lowell Graham’s Winds of War & Peace (Wilson Audio).