Product Description
ESOTERIC ESLD-10001 – DVOŘÁK FROM THE NEW WORLD (LP)
Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 “From the New World”
The only 32 years-old young Kertesz performed the most dramatic “New World” in the history of recordings with the prestigious Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
PRODUCING THE ANALOG VINYL RECORDS UNDER THE BEST CONDITION
The analog vinyl records of the “Masterpiece Collection”, have been reissued by re-mastering the original master tapes, exclusive for the vinyl records. The mastering process employs the newly established the “Esoteric Mastering” system, including ESOTERIC’s top-of-the-line equipment “Master Sound Discrete DAC” and “Master Sound Discrete Clock”. In addition, the MEXCEL cables sparingly employed to achieve flawless high quality sound as the master data.
Analog cutting process has been performed at MIXER’S LAB in Tokyo employing the Neumann VMS80 cutting lath, a famous machine manufactured in West Germany in the golden era of the analog audio, and only two units are survived in Japan.
The “Esoteric Mastering” equipment is also employed to send out master data for analog cutting machine. Collaborating with the MIXER’S LAB, we brought the “Esoteric Mastering” equipment into their cutting room and connected the output directly to the Neumann SP79C cutting console. The “Esoteric Mastering” sound is sent directly to the cutting process bypassing the equaliser section of the console. The cutting process is performed by Mr. Katsutoshi Kitamura, a cutting engineer at MIXER’S LAB, and he put his master craftsman skills into the master disc.
Analog Cutting Equipment
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Cutting Lath: Neumann VMS80
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Cutting Console: Neumann SP79C
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Cutter Amp: Neumann SAL74B
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Cutter Head: Neumann SX74
Today, it is rare to cut a lacquer disc just for audition purposes, only master discs are cut for record pressing. However, in order to pursue sound quality, ESOTERIC created a number of lacquer discs with different transmission methods to the console.
Those lacquer discs created were taken back to the ESOTERIC Mastering Center to be auditioned and sound quality checked on ESOTERIC’s Grandioso T1 analog turntable to determine the best transmission method.
This is how Esoteric created vinyl records extending the information contained in the original master tape ,with a focus on the analog sound.
