Sold Date: August 17, 2018
Start Date: June 2, 2018
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Parlophone/Numbus HQ Supercut pressing, 1984. In 1984, U.K. stereo enthusiast magazine Practical Hi-Fi arranged to reissue a number of classic albums on high-quality Nimbus supercut pressings on 120-gram vinyl. It is estimated that there were only around a thousand copies of each title pressed that could only be bought via mail order. Nimbus Supercut LPs were released as a mail order only promotion to Practical Hi-Fi and Hi-Fi today magazine readers during the early 1980s. All Nimbus Supercut releases were available in limited quantities of around 1000 pressings per title. Nimbus Records have somewhat legendary status within the audiophile circle for their ‘Supercut’ releases; they mastered each release from the original master tapes using the best available mastering processes, employing many techniques for each release that were not commonly used. For example, generally when bass moves from channel to channel on an LP, groove modulation is employed to reduce the movement of the stylus and this results in this bass being centered more over both channels. Most audiophiles would argue that this – and in fact anything, which changes the original recording should be avoided although this is common practice on most LPs. Nimbus also had the ICI company produce an extremely pure vinyl for the LPs, which has amazing frequency reproduction and is virtually noise free – similar in quality to the ‘super vinyl’ used on earlier Mofi pressings. Due to their rarity and small pressing quantities, they are often more expensive than audiophile LPs from other labels. 

Gatefold sleeve has the original sticker with the text“Suprcut HiFi Numbus Records”