A&M Audiophile Series Discography
Since no other website or discography book(s) has a truly accurate list of these LPs, I'm going to debut my informal list of A&M Audiophile LPs here until I can assemble the official discography page for them. I've had a couple of sources of information, including some from my own collection.
A&M Audiophile pressings were mastered at half-speed on virgin vinyl, pressed in Japan, and distributed through A&M Canada. The catalog numbers remain the same, except the "SP-" prefix is changed to "SPJ-". The label was a yellow/grey/red variation of the white/silver/tan A&M label of the 70's.
Based on the samples I have, these audiophile LPs are among the best sounding versions of these albums available on vinyl. A couple of these overlap releases on other audiophile labels. For instance, Supertramp's Crime Of The Century was one of Mobile Fidelity's first releases. I have not compared the two pressings as of yet, but I would suspect they are very similar. The other A&Ms I have appear to be flat transfers from the master tapes.
SPJ-4245: Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass / Greatest Hits
SPJ-4790: Herb Alpert / Rise
SPJ-3601: Carpenters / Singles: 1969-1973
SPJ-4568: Chris De Burgh / Spanish Trains & Other Stories
SPJ-4658: Chuck Mangione / Feels So Good
SPJ-3715: Chuck Mangione / Fun and Games
SPJ-9020: Nazareth / Greatest Hits
SPJ-4753: The Police / Outlandos d' Amor
SPJ-4792: The Police / Reggatta de Blanc
SPJ-4831: The Police / Zenyatta Mondatta
SPJ-3730: The Police / Ghost In The Machine
SPJ-4822: Split Enz / True Colours
SPJ-4280: Cat Stevens / Tea for the Tillerman
SPJ-4313: Cat Stevens / Teaser and the Firecat
SPJ-4519: Cat Stevens / Greatest Hits
SPJ-3711: Styx / Cornerstone
SPJ-3719: Styx / Paradise Theater
SPJ-4559: Styx / Equinox
SPJ-4637: Styx / The Grand Illusion
SPJ-3647: Supertramp / Crime of the Century
SPJ-3708: Supertramp / Breakfast in America
SPJ-3732: Supertramp / ...Famous Last Words…
SPJ-4560: Supertramp / Crisis? What Crisis?
SPJ-4634: Supertramp / Even in the Quietest Moments
SPJ-5014: Supertramp / Brother Where You Bound
SPJ-6702: Supertramp / Paris (2 disc)
SPJ-4722: Gino Vanelli / Brother to Brother
This list will be updated as additional entries are found.
In a separate section, I am going to list audiophile reissues of A&M albums by other labels, such as Mobile Fidelity, SuperDisk, Nautilus, and others. This list will also include dbx-encoded releases.
Posted on Mar 16, 2004 at 4:55 pm by Rudy.
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