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But not all the vinyl mastering gurus are there, nor are there those of another big player in the reissue industry.
Where will MoFi's be.?

The most intersting line in the talk with Bernie Grundman and Chad was to me, that Bernie said, quarter inch master tape sounds better than half inch master tapes. A friend of mine always said to me so (because of magnetic distortion) and I never believed him, I must confess.

But now, the more I am pleased in stocking 15ips quarter inch tapes from all commercial outlets in the last years.

to watch a 2:25 video right now, a text summary of the salient points would be most welcome.

I'd love to know how the cavemen who made those first pressings on that old cheap underweight vinyl managed to produce the versions of recordings that these remasters aspire to!

Plus, all they had on hand were prehistoric interconnects and power cords. (Yet, the signal somehow snuck through.)

It's a miracle that it turns out they preserved so many things on their cave-machinery that could not be discerned by the primitive gear of the time.

I really am constantly amazed by the quality of those old early pressings.

Don't get me wrong, I love this new stuff, but sometimes I get a vibe of "meet the new stuff, almost as good as the old stuff."

are legends already, Ryan on the way, great guys, love’em!

The way they interviewed themselves hit more interesting topics than most of the crowd questions, good to let it flow. Chad with his own moderation and advertising sections does it for a good cause (analog), so that is fine ;-)

There was some really interesting information given inbetween that wasn’t part of other similar events already and I really appreciated especially the open talk about what was done from copies or digital or not. Also that it’s difficult to make already great originals or reissues better again. Nice that the mastering guys were a bit more open than the labels (other than AP) usually demand. I otherwise learned, most labels don’t want the engineers to talk about sources, hope that changes.

Regarding the code identifying future analog/digital processes, I hope it also includes naming if the source was the original master or a copy. In case this can be applied also retrospectively for past releases, even better.

If I correctly read between the lines, we learned what the upcoming big release of AP will be (but I won’t mention to not jeopardize the deal ;-) ), I understood that Chad and Bernie sometimes made a few trials to get a release perfect and that Chad has some influence on final tonality (e.g. brightness or not). I’m sure a good influence in this case. Also that some engineers seem to have rather less than more principles when it comes to opposing quirky tastes and wishes of customers. Unfortunately, but understandable from a business perspective. I wished, the characteristic of releases of some engineers wouldn’t have such a wide client dependent dispersion and would rather have just the engineers’ footprint in case of bad customer taste.

The most interesting next topics for me would be to further talk about past and current releases’ use of original or copy analog sources, especially when they were available in parallel (ORG, ORG Music, AP 33/45 and others), the historic development of the individual mastering chains, the reasons for the use or not of tube and solid state mastering equipment, for which releases Bernie used and uses the tube equipment and an even deeper dive in experience of the engineers with differences between best digital technology (high sampling rate DSD) and analog,

Do it again, this was great!

@Bernie: you even did Rollins The Bridge twice. For Classic Records (33 and 45) and ORG Music! Sounding quite different but both really good.

As the prices Chad is charging it may be wise to pay a few extra buck for a first pressing .
Look at KOB he used a 95 master to do the UHQR. Charged 100 plus s&h .
Really and on the SH board people .
had issues with his pressing and he had to give refunds or replacement . I guess he made more than his limited run
What is Mike 45 credential's beside having a you tube channel and a record collection.
Sorry

Beyond that, everything that is copied or replicated will lose some of the information that was presented that snake io day. A Kind of Blue, I could envision. It would encourage consumers to purchase tape decks for upcoming tapes.