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Steve Westman
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The Audiophiles: Your source for Audiophile news and Live Audiophile Roundtable discussions. Email me: stevewestman@rocketmail.com
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WESTMAN'S PICKS - Great sounding "AUDIOPHILE & ORIGINAL" albums spinning on my turntable this week!
Please join me as I spin some of the best sounding records in my collection, handpicked for their exceptional sound quality and unique musicality. From classic rock to jazz to indie, I'll be featuring a variety of genres and artists that will satisfy any music lover's cravings. So sit back, relax, and let the music take you on a journey. Don't forget to hit that like button and subscribe for more great picks from WESTMAN'S PICKS. Let's get spinning! #WESTMANSPICKS #AUDIOPHILE #ORIGINAL #GreatSoundingAlbums #VinylRecords #MusicLovers #RecordCollection #ClassicRock #Jazz #IndieMusic
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EXCLUSIVE - Special unboxing of Rhino High Fidelity’s ZZ Top Album Box 1971-1976!
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Please join Steve Westman as he welcomes Patrick Milligan Sr. Director of A & R at Rhino Entertainment to exclusively announce the next rock release from the Rhino High Fidelity series to be released on rhino.com August 2nd @ 6 am.
Audiophile Roundtable: INXS Kick 'SHOOTOUT' OG vs Abbey Road 45 RPM vs AP’s 45 RPM Atlantic 75!
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Welcome to our Audiophile Roundtable where we dive deep into the world of vinyl editions and sound quality. In this episode, we're putting three iconic pressings of INXS's Kick to the test: the original pressing, the Abbey Road 45 RPM edition, and AP's 45 RPM Atlantic 75 edition. Join us as we compare and contrast the nuances of each pressing, discussing the differences in sound quality, produc...
EXCLUSIVE - Special Announcement of Rhino High Fidelity’s next 2 ROCK releases!
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Please join Steve Westman as he welcomes Patrick Milligan Sr. Director of A & R at Rhino Entertainment to exclusively announce the next 2 releases from the Rhino High Fidelity series to be released on rhino.com July 12th @ 6 am.
Audiophile Roundtable: An unboxing and review of Rhino Hi-Fi's Black Sabbath S/T and Devo releases!
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Audiophile Roundtable: An unboxing and review of Rhino Hi-Fi's Black Sabbath S/T and Devo releases!
The "Lost" 14 minutes of Abbey Rd's Mastering Engineer Miles Showell with Beatles talk of course!
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The "Lost" 14 minutes of Abbey Rd's Mastering Engineer Miles Showell with Beatles talk of course!
5 of the “HOTTEST” sounding audiophile albums in my collection. So “HOT” it’s ludicrous!!
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5 of the “HOTTEST” sounding audiophile albums in my collection. So “HOT” it’s ludicrous!!
3 MUST have Albums! A review of The Replacement’s Tim remix, Gillian Welch and Morphine! Amazing!
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3 MUST have Albums! A review of The Replacement’s Tim remix, Gillian Welch and Morphine! Amazing!
MY HYPE STICKER RANT - Why can’t we see HYPE STICKER consistently across the industry? Frustrating!
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MY HYPE STICKER RANT - Why can’t we see HYPE STICKER consistently across the industry? Frustrating!
The Who’s Who’s Next Abbey Road reissue. Plangent Process used for box set and the 1/2 speed cut?
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The Who’s Who’s Next Abbey Road reissue. Plangent Process used for box set and the 1/2 speed cut?
Will there be a BIG Beatles announcement coming soon? What will be next after Red and Blue albums?
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Will there be a BIG Beatles announcement coming soon? What will be next after Red and Blue albums?
10 best sounding FEMALE artists in MY vinyl collection! Vinyl Community Challenge!
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10 best sounding FEMALE artists in MY vinyl collection! Vinyl Community Challenge!
10 HOT 1st generation Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs must own pressings for your AUDIOPHILE collection!
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10 HOT 1st generation Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs must own pressings for your AUDIOPHILE collection!
No more "AUDIOPHILE JAIL OF WANT"! 5 amazing sounding ORIGINAL albums without the premium price.
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No more "AUDIOPHILE JAIL OF WANT"! 5 amazing sounding ORIGINAL albums without the premium price.
RHINO High Fidelity Series release - Is Van Morrison's His Band and The Street Choir a new cut?
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RHINO High Fidelity Series release - Is Van Morrison's His Band and The Street Choir a new cut?
Were the same Bernie Grundman masters used to cut AP’s UHQR and UMG Steely Dan catalog?
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Were the same Bernie Grundman masters used to cut AP’s UHQR and UMG Steely Dan catalog?
6 amazing sounding DIGITAL LP NO FOMO cuts that won't leave your bank account empty and depleted.
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6 amazing sounding DIGITAL LP NO FOMO cuts that won't leave your bank account empty and depleted.
RHINO Hi-Fidelity - Will BLACK SABBATH be their next repress. Make it happen RHINO! Can you IMAGINE?
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RHINO Hi-Fidelity - Will BLACK SABBATH be their next repress. Make it happen RHINO! Can you IMAGINE?
Audiophile (Midweek) Roundtable Have we seen the last of FOMO within the Audiophile vinyl industry?
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Audiophile (Midweek) Roundtable Have we seen the last of FOMO within the Audiophile vinyl industry?
Audiophile Roundtable with MICHAEL FREMER: The State of the "AUDIOPHILE VINYL" Union! Future Bright?
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Audiophile Roundtable with MICHAEL FREMER: The State of the "AUDIOPHILE VINYL" Union! Future Bright?
Audiophile (Midweek) Roundtable VC news: Michael 45 and Steve Westman. The LOVE of AUDIOPHILE vinyl!
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Audiophile (Midweek) Roundtable VC news: Michael 45 and Steve Westman. The LOVE of AUDIOPHILE vinyl!
Audiophile Roundtable Discussion: Original Vinyl vs Audiophile Vinyl repress + Some crate dig gems!
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Audiophile Roundtable Discussion: Original Vinyl vs Audiophile Vinyl repress Some crate dig gems!
Audiophile Roundtable:Rhino's The Cars review; The future of high end priced vinyl, 45 rpm vs 33 rpm
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Audiophile Roundtable:Rhino's The Cars review; The future of high end priced vinyl, 45 rpm vs 33 rpm
Audiophile Roundtable:RHINO High-Fidelity's Patrick Milligan & Kevin Gray Unbox The Cars & Coltrane!
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Audiophile Roundtable:RHINO High-Fidelity's Patrick Milligan & Kevin Gray Unbox The Cars & Coltrane!
Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs "SILVER LABELS" cut AAA from the analogue masters? Find out which ones!
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Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs "SILVER LABELS" cut AAA from the analogue masters? Find out which ones!
Audiophile Roundtable: AP, MOFI, RHINO, Blue Note with special guest Tom Port+Best sounding records!
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Audiophile Roundtable: AP, MOFI, RHINO, Blue Note with special guest Tom Port Best sounding records!
Stop using a KNIFE when opening the shrink of your records! "KEEP THE SHRINK!"
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Stop using a KNIFE when opening the shrink of your records! "KEEP THE SHRINK!"
Craft Recordings Original Jazz Classics - Workin’ With Miles Davis Quintet an absolute MUST HAVE!
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Craft Recordings Original Jazz Classics - Workin’ With Miles Davis Quintet an absolute MUST HAVE!
Will Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs start selling DSD Files?Plus a look at 3 incredible sounding albums
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Will Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs start selling DSD Files?Plus a look at 3 incredible sounding albums
Audiophile Roundtable: A fascinating conversation with Warren Zevon's son Jordan Zevon.
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Audiophile Roundtable: A fascinating conversation with Warren Zevon's son Jordan Zevon.
Ordered on tagged on Aug 9th in Whittier California and still tagged as awaiting processing in Whittier California on Aug 20th! I recall the same thing happened when I ordered Black Sabbath direct from Rhino, that Whittier California held it for 2 weeks and then it had to cross North America to get to me. This is THE LAST time I deal with Rhino/Warner and the DHL service from Whittier California. "DHL Express"....what a joke and a huge disappointment. #neveragain
Plese email me I want to help make this right. stevewestman@rocketmail.com
So much fun this show listening to these heart warming stories by Graham ! London club scene has changed so much, but not in the good way😢.
Yes. Lots of fun. Thanks for tuning in. The 60's in London sounded pretty cool.
I am a HUGE Linkin Park fan, and I own all 3, and I’m sad I don’t even have a turntable yet. I’m just collecting vinyl records for now. I can’t wait to get myself a decent set up to finally listen and compare the difference between the first pressings I own of all 3 albums, and the One Step Editions.
Thanks for watching. Hit me back up with your thoughts of the albums once you get set up.
@@stevewestman7774 It might be a couple of years from now. But when I do, I’ll get back to this comment section. Hopefully, I hear back with your thoughts and opinions. 🙏🏼
Original records make better time machines. You're holding & interacting with card & vinyl that was New in the 1950s or '60s or '70s & this keeps past culture alive & brings you closer, physically, to that time & place. An *audiophile* would say, Yes, but a clearer-sounding reissue transports you back to the recording studio more vividly. And that distinguishes audiophiles from the rest of vinyl people: The audiophile wants a time machine that will land smackdab in the studio. Everyone else wants a time machine to land in London 1966 or Memphis 1956 or San Francisco 1967 or Berlin 1977...they can walk to the studio from there.
Numbering is a little vague - I doubt the jacket number actually corresponds to the pressing number, all we can be sure of is that it's one of 2000 / 3000 etc.
Michael, like your SP10 MK2... I also have a SP10 MK2, but in the factory plinth (SL1000 MK2) and my main table is a SP10 MK3, but in factory plinth (SL1000 MK3) working on a custom 3 arm plinth for the MK3. I use a FR64S tonearm (custom re-wire/rebuild by Richard Mak of AnalogMagic) and a Moerch DP-8 12" tonearm.
Thanks! I have my SP-10MKII in a Corian plinth I made myself and have refined over the past 20 years. It's made of five layers of Corian and the SP-10 its on a lead plate.
Hey Steve, does your Yes & ZZ Top lps have RL both sides? Btw all that Van Morrison lps US pressing that was shown should have RL etched in them….😅
On my OG Yes it has RL on side 1. My Canadian OG Eliminator mastered by Ludwig on back of jacket but the deadwax has the initials JW on both sides.
The original mtv unplugged is much better than the mov. The mov sounds really good but the og sounds like youre there. I paid $100 for the mov and $500 for the og. The extra $400 was definitely worth it for the sound of the og
The smiths & oasis may benefit from remastering by rhino or because sound matters as the OGs suffer from lots of sibilance!
Missed live again, on catch up, hoping for an MTV Alice in chains repress 30th anniversary , would love a marilyn manson re release of antichrist superstar or a boxaet.
16:59 I listened to Chappel Roan for the first time today. One song had the same vocal cadence as Lady Gaga paparazzi, the other had the same as Third Eye Blind- Never let you go.
Her songs are very catchy and addicting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! The LP, even though pressed at GZ, is quiet and sounds fantastic!
Man I missed this 😢. Steve, your T-shirt 😮!
Ya. Love my shirt.
Great episode guys!!! 🙌
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks! Really enjoyed being on today!
Would be nice to see a boxset of Ry Cooders early stuff by Rhino.
Steve: The Collectors included band members who went on to form or be part of Chilliwack.
Thank you.
@stevewestman7774 I have been reading great things about the Canadian red label Led Zep 3, do you have a copy of that? Discogs has 5 but just vg or g
Thanks so much for the information! It’s a green label Warner Brothers record.
All 3 albums ordered and I will be looking forward to the delivery to Europe. I hope to eventually add the remaining Linkin Park albums to this edition.
My copy of Hybrid Theory just showed up yesterday but unfortunately it's not off to a good start. The mailer used is disappointing, same as $40 Rhino High Fidelity records are using. The inner spine of the gatefold has a couple inch rip in it where the record broke through. The record itself is pretty dirty and has marks and scratches on it. Certainly not the experience I was expecting for a $100 record, they need to get it right at that number, no excuses. Haven't cleaned, played, or done anything with it yet. Time to find out how their customer service is now, emailed them with pics of what I received. Was able to reply directly to the confirmation email they sent and received an email right away showing a service ticket has been opened so that's off to a better start at least, we'll see how it goes from here.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-415151/John-Lennons-secret-lover.html There were other stories told over the years about this. But with Alma's sister corroborating this, even though it was almost 20 years ago, many people started to believe it was true.Oh well.Great show Steve. Hope my little interaction didn't ruin the mood!
I ordered all three and waiting for them, but I really would have liked them cut from tape. I don’t care they are digital recordings, they haven’t been done from tape before. My curiosity is that perhaps like a digital instrument can be mixed analog, if you mixed a digital recording through an analog console, then it wouldn’t sound the same. There must be a reason they mixed to tape, but we keep hearing it was recorded digital so it can’t be AAA. Well who cares if it’s ALL analog in this case, if half analog is the best case (DAA?) then I’d like to own that. This Linkin Park/Green Day fan is also an audiophile, and for this price point I think you should pull out all the stops. I’m deciding between these one steps, and the Atlantic 75, UHQRs, Rhino Hi-Fi titles and such. I’m a massive Linkin Park/Green Day fan, that was my youth man! but I’m also a big fan of all kinds of other music now and when I’m buying vinyl, it’s a budget decision about what I can’t get on any other format, which is primarily anything cut from tape. Leave it to us to decide if it sounds better than cutting from digital, rather than telling us it’s a digital recording, and tape from the era isn’t great etc it would have been an interesting listen
Looking forward to this Steve!
me too lol. this was my very first video that started my channel.
Graham Wood VERY knowledgeable, a great addition to the show, very much enjoyed it! Please bring him back
Yes for sure. He will be back for episode #2 of Let's Talk Music in mid Sept. Thanks for watching.
Thank you so much, gentlemen, for featuring this and for doing me a wonderful favor. Why? When ZZ announced their first concert in Europe in 1980 I blindly bought for curiosity their Best Of album which cover art let me believe it’s a kind of country campfire type music. Boy, was I thrilled. I have waited until after midnight when they finally entered the stage (without bringing the longhorn, rattlesnake, … though :-), and I hardly saw so many jaws dropped in my life again. That Best Of album cover is hanging framed in my music room, and luckily that concert has been filmed and released on DVD in later years. Interestingly, I never bought all those early individual albums, I guess for budget reasons and for the following synthie/MTV infused albums quickly gained my focus and spend for all later albums ever since until and including RAW. Thank you so much, RHF, for filling those early years‘ holes in my collection with this boxset which I am eagerly awaiting for customs to let it go into my hands. My first RHF! I hope it will arrive undamaged and well manufactured, and become what I would call my perfect birthday self-present.
Glad you enjoyed the show. Enjoy the box. It sounds amazing. Thanks for tuning in.
Is this 33 rpm just a digital one step or AAA?
The Doors UHQR LA Woman is all analog.
Mazzy needs to stop interjecting! Let Graham share his experiences! Hopefully Steve can focus on THE guest!
Great presentation. Punk was a Godsend to save us all from death by Disco in the mid seventies.
Thanks for watching.
I just obtained a 78 of Bill Haley Rock Around The Clock in VG+ condition from a Canadian collection.
How's it sound?
Better than expected for a 78.
Can’t wait for my UHQR LA Woman. I find the bit of backlash kind of funny when ppl have been asking for these great classic albums on 33. I will say this, I’m willing to wager most ppl aren’t pulling the 45 LA Woman off the shelf on a consistent basis. In fact, I’d be shocked if most who own it have played it more than 3-4 times. Something to be said for having some friends over and someone asking “can we listen to LA Woman?” and being able to just grab a 33 and playing it as the music was intended and with just one flip. Just my 3 cents.
Brilliant chat. Graham has had some life👍🏼
Yes. Was so informative. 👍
Mazzy, Mazzy, Mazzy, you were very distracting when Graham Wood was speaking, back off in future please!
too bad jimmy likes digital records
mazzy some of love Buford and prog talk about chops!
I got my box. They failed to use enough tape on the bottom of the box, the shipping box has a crushed corner and internal packing wasn't very good. Because of this, my ZZ Top box has a large dent in it. I email Rhino support and haven't heard anything for 3+ days now. Pretty disappointing. I also bought the first Cars Rhino High Fidelity and it arrived damaged too. They never responded to me in that case either.
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Chuck Berry - arsehole and a massive pervert.
Mazzy: Topic Records existed a a label earlier than with Joe Boyd's input, and they put out a lot of folk and blues in the 1950s.
Yes he worked for Elektra in London and many years later started Hannibal
I bought the LA Woman UHQR even though I have the 45...the 45 sounds great but annoying having to flip every 3 songs
This was great seeing Graham Wood talk about what he saw personally with first hand knowledge of how the music all came together. Great interview and stories Steve. Mazzy, wasn't that Vick Flick on Goldfinger rather than Jimmy Page? When I see someone like Graham talk about music, it makes me glad I grew up in the 1960's- born in 1962. I started buying vinyl when I was 10 or 11 so most of the great albums I still enjoy, I bought when they were released.
Awesome show guys, very enjoyable.
Mazzy Rock's
Great stream, loved the stories - definitely one to be repeated. Thanks Steve 😀
@@drumvc8060 thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. Mr. Wood has some amazing stories.
Brilliant show ,the joy of the people that were there during the making and telling music history. A few albums to check out now amd can't wait for episode 2
Very good show. So nice to to hear some talk about some of the 50’s star.
Wonderful show! Mr. Pete------> aging hippie
Please continue this, Graham was amazing. Great job!
The first pressings of ( The Songbook ) lp have Paul on the lefthand side, it took me a long time to find one in the wild, decades in fact 😁 it also had a very different text, style, font and placement.
Thanks for the nice show! "Apron strings" was not a Cliff Richard original, Billy the Kid recorded the first version in USA. Cliff's version is the best for sure.
Great guest with Mr Woods. Very interesting and entertaining Steve. Not buying the UHQR. Disappointing reissue imo.
32:00 "They came to London & all of a sudden, they've got all these originals they're doing." Not quite. Not all of a sudden - - not if you know anything about The Beatles in the North. They wrote several originals in Forthlin Rd & Menlove Ave. & several more on the tour bus & in hotels touring the North right through to end of 1963 - - & even Lennon-McCartney's songwriting deal was signed in Liverpool. Moving to London didn't trigger sudden songwriting, though EMI's record contract hastened it to fill the tracks. Their gradual maturity made their songwriting prolific and then sophisticated. Chronology more than place: how we grow up. They went where the money was, as did many artists from the provinces, but the provinces nurtured what the capital took credit for before the capital could even understand their accents. Some Beatle interviews remember how they were treated by Londoners before they were known millionaires. Let's not give London too much credit by downplaying Liverpool, eh? London, & Fleet Street, was very slow to recognise what Liverpool knew for 3 years ahead of the capital, & 4 years ahead of USA.
Graham is a fascinating man! I really enjoyed listening to him talk and tell his stories. What an interesting life he seems to have had. Very cool discussion tonight 👍👍 Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
Holy! What barnstormer that was! Certainly set the bar high with episode 1 Steve. Mr Graham Wood.What a fascinating guest.So Graham is in BC. I aws about to say he must be serious insomniac if he was up in the UK at 3:00am!! Look forward to Episode 2 and rest to follow.More power to you for hosting such a great podcast series.Kudos!
They are not going to do a 45 of the uhqr. At the end of chads video, he explains why they chose 33 instead of 45.
This.