Special Section: Audiophile Discs

Chicago – Chicago Transit Authority (1969) [1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority (1969) [1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Chicago – Chicago Transit Authority (1969) [1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
2x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.67 GB (Hi-Res) + 500 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed in Japan | Cat#: MFSL 2-128 | Genre: Jazz Rock, Fusion
Half-Speed Mastered

Few debut albums can boast as consistently solid an effort as the self-titled Chicago Transit Authority (1969). Even fewer can claim to have enough material to fill out a double-disc affair. Although this long- player was ultimately the septet’s first national exposure, the group was far from the proverbial “overnight sensation.” Continue reading “Chicago – Chicago Transit Authority (1969) [1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

VA – Woodstock: Music From The Original Soundtrack And More (1970) [1985, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

VA - Woodstock: Music From The Original Soundtrack And More (1970) [1985, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

VA – Woodstock: Music From The Original Soundtrack And More (1970) [1985, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
5x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 4.83 GB (Hi-Res) + 1.33 GB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed in Japan | Cat#: MFSL 5-200 | Genre: Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Psychedelic
Half-Speed Mastered
Continue reading “VA – Woodstock: Music From The Original Soundtrack And More (1970) [1985, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual (1983) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (1983) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual (1983) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 894 MB (Hi-Res) + 275 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: MOFI 1-027 | Genre: Pop Rock
Update: Missing files have been added

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity’s internationally acclaimed mastering system in California and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, this numbered-edition Silver Label Series 33RPM LP rescues the music from long-standing harshness and disadvantageous brittleness. Continue reading “Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual (1983) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

John Lee Hooker – Boogie Chillen’ (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen' (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

John Lee Hooker – Boogie Chillen’ (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.42 GB (ISO) + 2.35 GB (DSF) + 629 MB (FLAC) + 178 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | USA | Cat#: AFZ 005 | Genre: Blues
Update: Missing files have been added

Remastered for SACD this collection by the king of theboogie himself, John Lee Hooker, is a must for any bluesfan. Features 20 tracks including the first release ‘Boogie Chillun’ in 1948 as well as many other hits up until 1954. Continue reading “John Lee Hooker – Boogie Chillen’ (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Patricia Barber – Verse (2002) [2005, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Patricia Barber - Verse (2002) [2005, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Patricia Barber – Verse (2002) [2005, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.15 GB (ISO) + 2.10 GB (DSF) + 1010 MB (FLAC) + 330 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2027 | Genre: Vocal Jazz
Update: Missing files have been added

Pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber is the Alanis Morissette of the jazz world. Her serpentine, poetic songs teeter between deftly witty and awkwardly Latinate. Each album is more ambitious than the last, taking her deeper into avant-garde territory both lyrically and instrumentally. Continue reading “Patricia Barber – Verse (2002) [2005, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends (1969) [2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends (1969) [2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends (1969)
[2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
249 MB (CD-Layer) + 1.66 GB (DSF) + 795 MB (FLAC) + 1.69 GB (ISO) | 3% RAR Recovery

Joe Cocker’s debut album holds up extraordinarily well across four decades, the singer’s performance bolstered by some very sharp playing, not only by his established sideman/collaborator Chris Stainton, but also some top-notch session musicians, among them drummer Clem Cattini, Steve Winwood on organ, and guitarists Jimmy Page and Albert Lee, all sitting in. Continue reading “Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends (1969) [2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Santana – Caravanserai (1972) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Santana - Caravanserai (1972) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Santana – Caravanserai (1972) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.18 GB (ISO) + 2.15 GB (DSF) + 1.03 GB (FLAC) + 380 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2079 | Genre: Jazz Rock, Latin Jazz
Update: Missing files have been added

Drawing on rock, salsa, and jazz, Santana recorded one imaginative, unpredictable gem after another during the 1970s. But Caravanserai is daring even by Santana’s high standards. Carlos Santana was obviously very hip to jazz fusion Continue reading “Santana – Caravanserai (1972) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Lou Reed – Berlin (1973) [2024, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Lou Reed - Berlin (1973) [2024, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Lou Reed – Berlin (1973) [2024, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.09 GB (DSF) + 978 MB (FLAC) + 2.13 GB (ISO) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2277 | Genre: Pop Rock

Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP-gatefold-style packaging, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD of Berlin presents the landmark recording in audiophile quality for the first time. The scope, balance, and reach of Ezrin’s explosive production comes to the fore. As does the ample spaciousness and separation that help give the songs breathing room even when the music builds to an orchestral pitch. Continue reading “Lou Reed – Berlin (1973) [2024, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Cream – Wheels Of Fire (1968) [1985, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Cream - Wheels Of Fire (1968) [1985, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Cream – Wheels Of Fire (1968) [1985, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
2x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.70 GB (Hi-Res) + 518 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed in Japan | Cat#: MFSL 2-066 | Genre: Blues Rock
Half-Speed Mastered
Update: Missing files have been added

If Disraeli Gears was the album where Cream came into their own, its successor, Wheels of Fire, finds the trio in full fight, capturing every side of their multi-faceted personality, even hinting at the internal pressures that soon would tear the band asunder. A dense, unwieldy double album split into an LP of new studio material and an LP of live material, it’s sprawling and scattered, at once awesome in its achievement and maddening in how it falls just short of greatness. Continue reading “Cream – Wheels Of Fire (1968) [1985, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Deep Purple – Live On The BBC (2004) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Deep Purple - Live On The BBC (2004) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Deep Purple – Live On The BBC (2004) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Image + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
3.74 GB (ISO) + 3.68 GB (DSF) + 1.79 GB (FLAC) + 507 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Update: Missing files have been added

Recorded by the BBC on March 9, 1972, this previously difficult to find live show captures the classic Mark ll version of Deep Purple in all their incendiary power. This performance — basically the entirety of the then just released Machine Head minus “Pictures of Home” — is easily as good, and at times better than, Made in Japan, recorded five months later. Continue reading “Deep Purple – Live On The BBC (2004) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Faces – A Nod Is As Good As A Wink…To A Blind Horse… (1971) [2005, Audio Fidelity Remastered]

Faces - A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse... (1971) [2005, Audio Fidelity Remastered]

Faces – A Nod Is As Good As A Wink…To A Blind Horse… (1971) [2005, Audio Fidelity Remastered]
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 232 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | US | Cat#: AFZ 026 | Genre: Pop Rock
Update: Missing file has been added

The Faces’ third album, A Nod Is as Good as a Wink…to a Blind Horse, finally gave the group their long-awaited hit single in “Stay with Me,” helping send the album into the Billboard Top Ten, which is certainly a testament to both the song and the album, but it’s hard to separate its success from that of Rod Stewart’s sudden solo stardom. In the mere months that separated Long Player and A Nod, Rod had a phenomenal hit with “Maggie May” and Every Picture Tells a Story, his third solo album Continue reading “Faces – A Nod Is As Good As A Wink…To A Blind Horse… (1971) [2005, Audio Fidelity Remastered]”

VA – Man Of The World: Reflections On Peter Green (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

VA - Man Of The World: Reflections On Peter Green (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

VA – Man Of The World: Reflections On Peter Green (2003)
[Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Image + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 493 MB (CD-Layer) + 2.19 GB (DSF) + 1.50 MB (FLAC) + 2.33 GB (ISO) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | US | Cat#: AFZ 011 | Genre: Blues Rock
Update: Missing files have been added

Peter Green is the founder of Fleetwood Mac and his songs have been recorded, covered, and re-interpreted for the past 40 years. As BB King has said, “Peter Green is the only man who ever made me sweat.” Artists such as Ian Anderson, Rory Gallagher, Savoy Brown, Harvey Mandel and others share their interpretations of some of Peter’s greatest songs (Oh Well, Black Magic Women, Albatross, Supernatural and more), making this 15 song collection a must have. Continue reading “VA – Man Of The World: Reflections On Peter Green (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Hard Promises (1981) [1992, MFSL Remastered]

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Hard Promises (1981) [1992, MFSL Remastered]

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Hard Promises (1981) [1992, MFSL Remastered]
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 465 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDCD 565 | Genre: Country Rock, Heartland Rock
Update: Missing file has been added

Damn the Torpedoes wasn’t simply a culmination of Tom Petty’s art; it happened to be a huge success, enabling him to call the shots on its successor, Hard Promises. Infamously, he used his first album as a star to challenge the record industry’s practice of charging more for A-list artists, demanding that Hard Promises should be listed for less than most records by an artist of his stature Continue reading “Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Hard Promises (1981) [1992, MFSL Remastered]”

Harry Nilsson – Son Of Schmilsson (1972) [2021, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Harry Nilsson - Son Of Schmilsson (1972) [2021, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Harry Nilsson – Son Of Schmilsson (1972) [2021, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.01 GB (DSF) + 814 MB (FLAC) + 1.11 GB (ISO) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2220 | Genre: Pop Rock

Sourced from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD of Son of Schmilsson presents the music with full-range dynamics and astute clarity. Recording with producer Richard Perry and at London’s Trident Studios for the second time, the singer again captures a natural sound marked by lively tonalities, generous air, and stellar presence. Continue reading “Harry Nilsson – Son Of Schmilsson (1972) [2021, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Carole King – The Carnegie Hall Concert – June 18, 1971 (1996) [2010, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Carole King – The Carnegie Hall Concert - June 18, 1971 (1996) [2010, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Carole King – The Carnegie Hall Concert – June 18, 1971 (1996)
[2010, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.08 GB (ISO) + 1.96 GB (DSF) + 1.31 GB (FLAC) + 376 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2067 | Genre: Adult Contemporary
Update: DSF Tracks & New Hi-Res FLAC Tracks have been added

Carnegie Hall Concert: June 18, 1971 is 17-song set recorded just as Tapestry was topping the charts and making Carole King a superstar. Featuring most of Tapestry and a few songs from Writer and Music this is, in a sense, Carole King unplugged (although that terminology was not yet in use). Continue reading “Carole King – The Carnegie Hall Concert – June 18, 1971 (1996) [2010, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”