ドナルド・フェイゲン* – The Nightfly = ナイトフライ

This is a spectacular album. Sounds great! I recently delved into serious vinyl listening and have learned so much with turntable settings to "dial in" and extract the best out of my vinyl playback and I have tell you, this album blows me away with its dynamic & clarity. I'm loving it. I highly recommend this version!

Found my water damaged copy at a yard sale. After soaking the vinyl and getting parts of the cover to come off of the grooves, I cleaned it gently about a dozen times. The result? An ex copy with ugly labels and no cover. This record sounds amazing and was worth a couple of hours time to save it. Yeah, I could've bought one for under 50 bucks, but I saved this one and it only cost me two dollars and little time.

You can buy the MFSL One Step for status and pay $300 to $500 or buy this for $30 to $50 and have the same thing. If not better. Very nice!!

Similar to the Chris Bellman cut, which is more neutral, this one is a tad coloured but we're talking subtleties here and it probably takes the edge off a tad, from what can be a very analytical sounding recording.

This is a must own pressing for the fact that it uses the same MASTERDISK stamper found on the US pressings of this album, so it's a good way to get a clean copy to enjoy.

I find myself actually going back and forth between this and the original MoFi pressing (not the one-step 2xLP press from a couple years back), and this is coming from someone who also owns a mint US pressing.

I am surprised how this record Sounds. So clean with clarity, good separation. Mine has the OBI and inserts intact, shame about a scratch on track 1 deep enough to hear it. Otherwise perfect. This is the version to get if you can find a good one

I bought a copy of this version. VG cover with some torn on OBI, edge wear (spine readable) and ring wear.
Record VG+/NM conditions, two inserts too.
Some very very light surface noise (i haven't clean the record) but sounds powerful!

for 25 euros, it's a good choice right? :-)

Although it does not say it in the credits for this release, the lacquers were cut by Bob Ludwig (as indicated by MASTERDISK RL in runout). He likely cut the lacquers and sent them to Japan for production.

This is an extremely well done pressing. Some may consider it bright in some songs, especially in higher frequencies, but not to the point where it's overbearing or ruins the experience. Donald's vocals on this are just sublime and definitely one of the highlights of the pressing. Definitely worth adding to a collection if you are a fan of the album and can find a nice copy.

Incredibly quiet pressing, mine sounds almost like a CD but with the dynamics of analog.