Sold Date: February 26, 2016
Start Date: February 6, 2016
Final Price: $100.00 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 187
Buyer Feedback: 7

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION OF THIS LISTING!

MUNYUNGO
MUNYUNGO JACKSON
ViTaL002, 1991
A RARE AND MAGNIFICENT RECORDING OF LATIN JAZZ

I'm not a dealer, but merely an analogue collector / enthusiast selling off a few sealed duplicates and others from my small personal collection.  

This is one of David Manley's (Vacuum Tube Logic) audiophile / purist recordings on his VITAL Label

IT IS A NEW, SEALED LP.   All the selections on this LP were recorded by David Manley of VTL fame with imaging so real you can reach out and touch the musicians.

No digital here....  I recently read one "classically trained" reviewer's notes wherein he recommended buying a CD rather than listening to MP3 versions because of MUCH less compression -  "A word to the wise: get the CD instead of the MP3. The problem with MP3 is that they are so compressed you only get 10-20% fidelity of the music." 

I MAY HAVE AN EVEN BETTER IDEA - WHY NOT GO "OLD SCHOOL" AND GET THE BEST VERSION - BUY PURE ANALOGUE WHERE THERE IS NO DIGITAL INVOLVED AT EITHER END, AND NO COMPRESSION.   But you have to be careful - a LOT of Vinyl created since the late 70's - 80's has been mastered digitally, so you'd be just as well off buying the CD.  Unless you're in a car, on a bicycle or otherwise traveling, you don't need a CD.  An analogue LP is the next best thing to "being there".

Recorded in Manley's ViTaL studio in Chino, California, a space designed specifically for "purist recording techniques only." The room is 40 feet by 30 feet with a cathedral peak 16 feet high. The entire acoustic treatment is finished in Oregon Oak and Douglas Fir timbers with continuous Helmholtz tuned resonance absorbing slots. The floor is rubber over high-density particle board over concrete with a resultant reverberation time of approximately 1½ seconds, providing a totally neutral and resonance-free acoustic.

Every piece of equipment in the recording chain is entirely tube, entirely analog, including the microphones. The Manley Gold Reference Stereo Condenser mic is the centerpiece of the recordings, no other additional microphones are used. It is of the so-called large capsule variety, having a diameter of 1¼ inches with 3-micron gold-deposition mylar diaphragms. The stereo version has one fixed capsule and one rotatable capsule with the pick-up pattern being continuously variable. His most often-used choice was figure of 8 in the classic Blumlein coincident crossed-pair mode. The entire vacuum tube amplification is built into the microphone body, 8 triodes in the stereo microphone, and no transformer coupling or external amplification is used.

All the music was played "live" and captured straight onto 2 stereo tracks using no equalization of any kind.   The musical styles vary, and the sonic quality is consistently excellent throughout

NO INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE, UNLESS YOU HAVE A U.S. MAILING ADDRESS.

The $4.00 shipping rate shown above is via USPS media mail ONLY to the "lower 48" states
I will insure your LP(s) up to $200 at no extra cost to you.

If you  select more than 1 LP, I will gladly combine shipping to keep your costs as low as possible
I use boxes professionally designed and made to fit up to 4 single LPs.

If you have any questions at all please send me a message and I'll get back to you ASAP, generally within a couple of hours.

THANKS AGAIN!