CVH Sixpack will be Available in Audiophile Formats

[Terry]

Simple point... none of this new crap will sound any better than when I first heard it on vinyl through my old Pioneer stereo back in 1980 onward. Repackaged, reformatted, regurgitated... but no longer remarkable.

This band has been so damn lazy when it comes to releasing new material... the worst part is they are sitting on hundreds of hours of live and studio material that many of us long time fans wouldn't think twice about purchasing if it wasn't just the same old shit... Shame on em... lazy bastards!

Between buying them first on vinyl, then cassette, then cd...it's enough.

The cds I bought were in the 1990s, and thinking about it now...I can't remember the last time I listened to ANYTHING on cd,

[Kristy]

Bunch of hippies. Everybody knows the Compact Disc is the future

[Nitro Express]

Between buying them first on vinyl, then cassette, then cd...it's enough.

The cds I bought were in the 1990s, and thinking about it now...I can't remember the last time I listened to ANYTHING on cd,

I still have most my vinyl from the 70's and early 80's.

[Terry]

I still have most my vinyl from the 70's and early 80's.

I've got maybe 20 or so vinyl albums from the 70's/early 80's, WACF/DD/1984 among them.

Still have a single unit record turntable/dual cassette player...it still works, too! It's gathering dust.

Have about 150 cassette tapes, give or take. Also gathering dust.

And maybe 250 or so cd's...maybe more. All also gathering dust.

DVD's? Forget it. Between professionally manufactured and homemade, last time I tried to count and catalog them several years ago it was around 3,000.

Oh, yeah. Can't forget the 200-odd VHS tapes!!

I really should consider selling some of that stuff online or some shit.

[Vinnie Velvet]

I've got maybe 20 or so vinyl albums from the 70's/early 80's, WACF/DD/1984 among them.

Still have a single unit record turntable/dual cassette player...it still works, too! It's gathering dust.

Have about 150 cassette tapes, give or take. Also gathering dust.

And maybe 250 or so cd's...maybe more. All also gathering dust.

DVD's? Forget it. Between professionally manufactured and homemade, last time I tried to count and catalog them several years ago it was around 3,000.

Oh, yeah. Can't forget the 200-odd VHS tapes!!

I really should consider selling some of that stuff online or some shit.

Sell your cassette tapes online. Hipster millennials will go after them bigtime.

Cassette tapes had their time and their advantage was that they were small and offered portable convenience.

Other than that sound wise they were of course inferior to vinyl and later CDs.

[twonabomber]

People are asking about a buck a tape on the for sale groups. Not sure what they're getting.

The local wrecka sto might still buy tapes, I haven't been in there lately and don't remember. Probably not gonna get rich on 'em.

Only CD's I have out is stuff I've picked up the last couple years. The collection is in bins somewhere. Tapes are in another bin.

[Seshmeister]

The whole vinyl revival has been a cash cow for many artists.

Pre COVID at least it was absolutely essential to a bunch of artists. I would be at a little club gig wondering how the touring band was surviving on a crowd of 70 people paying $10 and then a queue would form at the end at the merch table and half the audience would buy a $25 high end vinyl album the band had probably pressed themselves. It was basically the lifeblood of a lot of pretty niche acts allowing say an Italian doom metal act to do an 8 date tour of 100 capacity UK venues.

I'm hoping this model will have survived post plague. Of course maybe if fucking Spotify didn't give fucking Joe Rogan $200 million and instead paid more than 0.0000000000000000000000000000000001 cents a fucking play to artists we wouldn't need to worry about that.

[Silexxx]

I think the best sounding cds are the 24kt Gold Plated/DCC remaster for the first album and then the original 80s pressings for the rest. No loudness war or brickwalling there like the 2000 remasters had. Also the 2015 remastered 192/24 hdtracks sound great since those are from the original master tapes with no compression applied.

[Kristy]

Spotisuck and other digital marketing gimmicks like iTunes and now Amazon Muzak have ironically killed off the CD. If five to six years if someone asked me if the CD was dead I'd tell them "it's in a weird place" but now it is pushing up daisies. This alone does not mean that vinyl somehow defaults to being more superior product with better sound and quality control manufacturing. Vinyl is nostalgia marketing for failing music industry and that again is due to such poor quality of the CD. I'm going to sound old here but a lot of "today's music" could not be any more disposable. Maybe that's due to the ease to acquire recording technology that is relatively cheap where anyone with no recording expedience can produce whatever they want over night.

Van Halen's debut record took slightly over three weeks to record their second one week and their third in 8 days Nirvana's Nevermind was @ two weeks whereas something like Rumors took over a year. Point being all these bands were working with top notch producers and engineers in quality studios. A lot of that is gone replaced by Pro Tools where every one who uses it doesn't have or possesses little music production experience (See: Jimmy Page). So what you have is an inferior product (at least to my ears) being pumped out on readily digital formats and yes, it all does sound the same. That's where the resurgence of vinyl comes in again, not because it's better but albums that are being pressed by those at Mobile Fidelity such as these original Van Halen six-pack were recorded with forethought with gifted engineers. Same for the likes of Bowie, The Beatles, Tom Petty, even Phil Collins.

I was listening so some shitty podcast where they interviewed Hugh Padgham and even though he is a limey the way he was talking about working on the Police's Synchronicity was almost like hearing someone talk about a lost art. The way he set up the drums, working within the limitations of analog tape, how to capture Andy Sumner's guitar feedback and place it a part of a song, knowing that Sting is nothing more than a egotistical cocksucker seems a lot of that is no longer and a lot of new(er) bands are trying to recapture it but cant afford to do so which make vinyl more of a novelty and why shitbirds like Mobile Fidelity can charge outrageous prices for these pressings even if the quality of sound is not that much better from a 2015 remastered $10 CD.

Spotisuck has killed music and is doing its best to turn into a listening monopoly as they gain and more access into labels that have gone bankrupt with titles long out of print and no they don't give a shit about paying the artist what they are due for it, either. So fuck them. I bet all of the original Van Halen six-pack on Spotisuck are the 2015 remasters which only goes to show that they were pulled from the CD which only means the CD is surviving solely in the digital download/streaming universe. Still does not make vinyl a better product - just a more personal one and a lot of people are happy with that. If one has the $125 each then go for them while you can.

[Kristy]

I think the best sounding cds are the 24kt Gold Plated/DCC remaster for the first album and then the original 80s pressings for the rest. No loudness war or brickwalling there like the 2000 remasters had. Also the 2015 remastered 192/24 hdtracks sound great since those are from the original master tapes with no compression applied.

The 2000 remasters were awful. Chris Bellman knew what he was doing with the 2015 remasters. And what gets me about the original six-pack 2015 remasters is not only the spatial separation between instruments but how underrated Alex was as a drummer for this band; you can actually hear him on these.

[Seshmeister]

[Nickdfresh]

The Remasterbaters do sound excellent...

[Kristy]

My brilliant review

http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/showthread.php?72088-Kristy-Reviews-The-VH-1-2015-Remaster&highlight=remaster