Donald Fagen: The Nightfly on MoFi UltraDisc 1-Step, 45RPM, 2 LP -- Few Copies Remain

[John49]

Originally Posted by briweed

Did anyone order this from Elusivedisc? I ordered one from there and it has not arrived. They are telling me none have (for their customers). Just checking to see if anyone happened to order it from them and received theirs. Luckily I ordered one direct from Mofi and that one arrived a month or so back.

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I’m still sticking to my cassette.

[Art Vandelay]

Originally Posted by Weirdcuba

Double agreed on this. That would be, I think, my fourth copy, but I'd love to have it. The new PSAudio CD player (which I use with their DAC) takes SACD's to unheard of levels for me. It would be great to have multiple stellar copies of this (more from a collecting side than anything).

I have a pretty good vinyl pressing plus the DVD-A and a high res DL, along with various CD pressings.

As has been said, it's an early 16/48kHz recording so the CD is about as good as it gets, as long as your CD playback is half decent. I was a bit disappointed with the DVD-A because the high res stereo tracks had been max'd, same as with Kamakiriad, so the album is less dynamic than it should be. The same affliction exists with the SHM SACD version of Aja, although Gaucho is OK for the most part.

Having said all that, to my ears, while Nightfly isn't the most perfectly recorded album; sounding a bit thin and clinical for the most part; it is definitely dynamically untainted, and blessed with so many wonderful session players, it stands as one of my favourite albums of all time.

How anyone could dismiss it simply because it's a "1982 digital recording" is unfathomable.

[Weirdcuba]

Glad this thread bubbled back up. I have the mofi vinyl issued last fall (iirc) and this reminds me to listen to it tonight on the new C37 phono pre, which is sounding just fabulous after break in.