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"Finally, in our serious music listening session with the now beloved Aida, I chose a record of which I have two versions, the Moeran Symphony in G Minor, with the English Symphonia conducted by Neville Dilks. This is a spacious and rich sounding EMI recording from 1972, also available from Mobile Fidelity as an ”Original Master Recording”, which if it was so bloody authentic, why did they leave out the two extra works, Two Pieces for Small Orchestra, found on my HMV Greensleeves reissue. And, in fact, the British reissue actually sounds better than the MFSL, and is also cut at a higher level. I also think the latter is slightly EQ’d, perhaps for American ears, so don’t always trust your alleged “audiophile” pressings.

This kind of supposedly benevolent meddling is, of course, the bane of the audiophile LP industry, the excuse always being that “the original engineers kind of fucked it up!” Balderdash and Poppycock, say I (or words to that effect – an in-joke for those who have known me well off the air). The original EMI/HMV nicely captures the sharpness and resonance of the original unidentified location, which sounds to me like their Studio Two, which I visited in 1975, on an audio trip to Europe for my CBC FM series, From The Masters, for which I also interviewed such people as Neville Marriner (never met Dilks, though), Aaron Copland, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Glenn Gould, among others, including also engineers and producers at Decca and EMI.

Presenting the natural acoustic of all recordings is the goal of any reproduction device, an especially tricky exercise when dealing with the vagaries of LP production and reproduction, and so I am drawn to my inevitable conclusion, after much enjoyable listening to a cartridge that is astonishingly quiet in the groove, extraordinarily natural in timbre, as accurate and sure (pun again ) a tracker as I have ever encountered, and a delight to listen to, hopefully forever (or as eternal as it gets for me), as I try to listen again to my 4000 odd and not-so-odd LPs during my allotted remaining time on this fragile firmament. The Soundsmith Aida is, if not the best cartridge in my experience, certainly the one I wish to keep for the long haul home."

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