Dire Straits – On Every Street – Comparison between CDs, SACD MOFI, Vinyls. What’s mistaken with the MOFI and Back To Black vinyl records?

Hello,

“On Every Street” is the sixth and remaining studio album by the band Dire Straits, launched on September 9, 1991. This album was launched six years after the earlier album, “Brothers in Arms”. “On Every Street” incorporates 12 tracks and was produced digitally.

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For this assessment, 8 variations had been examined: Vinyl document Back To Black and MOFI; CD from 1991,1996,2000 and MOFI; SACD MOFI and Tidal HD.

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In phrases of dynamics, it is the Mofi model that has the perfect dynamics in comparison with the 1991, 1996, 2000 and Tidal CD variations, as proven by the waveform zoom on the tune "On Every Street" and the digital curves.

Waveform: CD 1991, CD 1996 and SACD MOFI

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As far because the vinyl variations are involved, one would possibly surprise in regards to the high quality of vinyl realization in the present day.

The graph under compares the spectra of Back To Black and MOFI vinyl records.

Spectrum Vinyl Back To Black – 2024 (white) vs Vinyl document Mofi – 2024 (blue)

For the Back To Black vinyl document, the reducing was completed by Bernie Grundman, and there may be attenuation above 16 kHz (yellow zone), though the music nonetheless incorporates data. We’ve been noticing an issue with Bernie Grundman’s reducing for a while now, as was the case with the most recent "Dark Side of The Moon". It’s an actual disgrace for in the present day’s productions, as a result of up to now, the engravings had been actually of top of the range, with out these defects above 15 kHz.

On the MOFI vinyl document, the bandwidth rises nicely above 20 kHz (yellow arrow), with a gift sign as much as not less than 30 kHz. However, within the pink zone we see a sign that should not exist, because the digital grasp cuts at 22 kHz. There’s an aliasing of the spectrum, a phenomenon that should not seem on a vinyl document and is not current on different albums like "Brother In Arms", which additionally has a digital grasp. It’s a digital flaw discovered on analog vinyl! You can discover full particulars of this drawback right here.

To have a vinyl document with a excessive technical high quality just isn’t as simple as we will see.

To see the impression on vinyl records and examine all variations, you possibly can take heed to pattern from the 8 variations HERE, and in addition discover the measurements for all variations.

Enjoy listening,

Jean-François