MCRU offer a range of SACD’s, XRCD’s and reel to reel tapes for discerning audiophiles everywhere.

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‘Chasing the Dragon’ – Master Tape Copy – Reel to Reel

£400.00
Master Quality Double Reel To Reel Tape! Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible!

A Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald – Clare Teal 180g Vinyl

£50.00
AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only, from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head.
The album was rehearsed, mixed and cut directly to vinyl, ALL IN ONE DAY

A Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald – Performed By Clare Teale – Chasing the Dragon – Reel To Reel 1/2 Track 7 1/2 ips

£250.00
Master Quality 7″ Spool, 1/2 Track, 7 1/2 IPS Reel To Reel Tape! Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible! Mastered on Studer machines and needing to be heard to be believed, these recording showcase exactly why reel to reel is the best sounding music medium. Sound quality is up there with the very best. Also available on audiophile vinyl

A Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald – Performed By Clare Teale – Chasing the Dragon – Reel To Reel 1/2″ 15 ips

£500.00
Master Quality  1/2" 15 ips Reel To Reel Tape! Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible! Mastered on Studer machines and needing to be heard to be believed, these recording showcase exactly why reel to reel is the best sounding music medium. Sound quality is up there with the very best. Also available on audiophile vinyl

A Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald – Performed By Clare Teale – Chasing the Dragon – Reel To Reel 1/4″ 15 ips

£400.00
Master Quality  1/4" 15 ips Reel To Reel Tape! Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible! Mastered on Studer machines and needing to be heard to be believed, these recording showcase exactly why reel to reel is the best sounding music medium. Sound quality is up there with the very best. Also available on audiophile vinyl

Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia SATURDAY Night In San Francisco – Hybrid Super Audio CD

£39.99
Audiophile SACD Never before released!!!
Assembled from the original 16-track analog live session tapes by Al Di Meola with engineers Katsu Naito & Roy Hendrickson Mastered from analog tapes by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Pressed at Record Technology Inc. Deluxe new packaging with never-before-seen photos Exclusive essay by Charles L. Granata feat. new interviews with Al Di Meola & original recording engineer Tim Pinch Long-Awaited Follow Up To Friday Night In San Francisco! From Original 16-Track Analog Live Session Tapes by Al Di Meola, Katsu Naito & Roy Hendrickson! Mastered From Analog Tapes by Bernie Grundman! Pressed at RTI!  

Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia SATURDAY Night In San Francisco Limited Edition Audiophile CD

£29.99
Audiophile CD Never before released!!!
Assembled from the original 16-track analog live session tapes by Al Di Meola with engineers Katsu Naito & Roy Hendrickson Mastered from analog tapes by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Pressed at Record Technology Inc. Deluxe new packaging with never-before-seen photos Exclusive essay by Charles L. Granata feat. new interviews with Al Di Meola & original recording engineer Tim Pinch Long-Awaited Follow Up To Friday Night In San Francisco! From Original 16-Track Analog Live Session Tapes by Al Di Meola, Katsu Naito & Roy Hendrickson! Mastered From Analog Tapes by Bernie Grundman! Pressed at RTI!  

Alan Parsons – I Robot – MoFi Ultradisc 180g 33RPM Vinyl Box Set

£149.00
IN STOCK NOW!!
MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES: ULTRADISC ONE-STEP LP ELEVATES THE AUDIOPHILE STANDARD WHILE OFFERING ONE-FLIP CONVENIENCE Most audiophiles know Alan Parsons Project’s I Robot by heart. Engineered by Parsons after he performed the same duties on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, the 1977 record reigns as a disc whose taut bass, crisp highs, clean production, and seemingly limitless dynamic range are matched only by the sensational prog-rock fare helmed by the keyboardist. Not surprisingly, it’s been issued myriad times. Can it be improved? Relish Mobile Fidelity’s stupendous UltraDisc One-Step 180g 33RPM box set and the question becomes moot.  

Alan Parsons – I Robot – MoFi Ultradisc 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set

£180.00
AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER
MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES: ULTRADISC ONE-STEP SET IS THE ULTIMATE ANALOG VERSION OF 1977 AUDIOPHILE STANDARD Audiophiles don’t need any introduction to the Alan Parsons Project’s I Robot. Engineered by Parsons after he performed the same duties on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, the 1977 record reigns as a disc whose taut bass, crisp highs, clean production, and seemingly limitless dynamic range are matched only by the sensational prog-rock fare helmed by the keyboardist. Not surprisingly, it’s been issued myriad times. Can it be improved? Relish Mobile Fidelity’s stupendous UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP box set and the question becomes irrelevant.  

Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky – MOFI 2 x 180g 45RPM Vinyl

£75.00
IN STOCK NOW
You don’t need to be ‘Old & Wise’ to know this is an absolute essential!
Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s RTI pressed 180g 45RPM 2LP and hybrid SACD versions of Eye in the Sky feature succulent warmth, magnificent balance, low-end heft, and see-through transparency that take you into the studio with Parsons at Abbey Road Studios. Each note seems perfectly placed, every sequence painstakingly considered. Boasting front-to- back depth, concert-hall-level separation, realistic presence, and bang-on accuracy, the reissues illustrate the lasting importance of perfectionist-minded engineering and recording techniques. These releases will test the capabilities of the world’s finest stereo systems. There’s more information, more texture, more nuance— more of everything to be experienced. British progressive rock would never again sound so sophisticated, suave, or steady.

Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky – MOFI SACD

£42.00
Mastered From The Original Master Tapes: Sacd Presents The Music’s Hallmark Smoothness, Lushness, And Detail In Reference Sound
The opening track to the Alan Parsons Project’s Eye in the Sky remains the most recognized instrumental in sports – fanfare inseparably tied with introducing NBA legend Michael Jordan and his six-time world-champion Chicago Bulls mates before games, and still used by many teams as an energy-raising prelude. Indeed, the subdued grandiosity, cosmic bluster, and lights-out wonder of “Sirius” also sets the table for the band’s smash 1982 album, whose hallmark smoothness, lushness, and balance reach epic heights on Mobile Fidelity’s reissue.

Alan Parsons Project – I Robot – Numbered Limited Edition Mofi Hybrid SACD

£39.95
Perfectionism, Innovation, Complexities, and Reference-Grade Production Make Alan Parsons Project’s Conceptual I Robot a Timeless Classic: Sci-Fi Arrangements Steeped In Drama and Moodiness. More Music, More Information, More Detail, More Nuance, More Everything: Mobile Fidelity Hybrid SACD the Definitive-Sounding Digital Version of 1977 Audiophile Standard. A Demonstration Disc for the Ages: Immaculate Highs and Lows, Supreme Spaciousness, See-Through Transparency, 3D Imaging, Wider Grooves on System-Testing Disc.

Alice Coltrane: Eternity – Speakers Corner 180g Vinyl

£34.99
This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.
When the brilliant saxophonist John Coltrane died in 1967, the core values of jazz music had long drawn him into the spiritual world (“A Love Supreme”, “Ascension”, “Meditations” etc.). His widow and final pianist followed in his footsteps. Alice Coltrane (1937–2007) sought after »cosmic sounds, higher dimensions, astral levels« – she had an important influence on the spiritualised, esoteric music scene of the 1970s.
 

Alice Cooper – Welcome To My Nightmare – Analogue Productions Atlantic 75 Series Hybrid Stereo SACD

£45.00
Available to Pre-Order
1975 was a banner year for superstar Alice Cooper with the release of the groundbreaking concept album Welcome To My Nightmare. This album showcases Cooper’s theatricality, storytelling prowess, and ability to create an immersive world of horror and fantasy.

Amanda McBroom Midnight Matinee XRCD24

£35.20
Available for the first time on XRCD24 - this release was produced by Peter Bunetta and Rick Chudacoff for Ripe Productions, also the producers for Dreaming. (To their credits they have also produced Michael Bolton's Soul Survivor, Smokey Robinson's One Heartbeat and Patti LaBelle's New Attitude.) Guests on the project include Bob James, who plays keyboards on two tracks, guitarist Robben Ford and keyboardist Brad Cole, who plays with the Phil Collins Band. Audiophiles who've enjoyed Amanda's work for years will certainly want to finally include this XRCD24.

Anne Bisson – Keys To My Heart 180g 45RPM One Step Vinyl

£150.00
Canadian jazz singer & pianist releases her sixth opus! Mastering by Bernie Grundman One-step plating, 180-gram 45 RPM numbered double LP!
Now in stock

Anne Bisson Trio – Four Seasons In Jazz Live At Bernie’s – Direct to Disc Vinyl

£89.95
Hand-Numbered Limited Edition D2D 180g LP (Opaque Pink Vinyl)
2017 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) Award Winner for Best Audiophile Analogue Recording!
NOW IN STOCK

Anne-Sophie Mutter Mozart The Violin Concertos Highlights XRCD24

£44.00
Audio Beat Rated 5/5 Music, 4.5/5 Sound!
Renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter performs Mozart Concertos alongside the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Mozart's five violin concertos were written in Salzburg around 1775. They are notable for the beauty of their melodies and the skillful use of the expressive and technical characteristics of the instrument.

Anthony Wilson – Hackensack West 180g 33RPM Cohearent Records Vinyl

£55.00
Recorded by award-winning mastering engineer Kevin Gray’s record label.
Anthony Wilson’s Hackensack West is Cohearent Records’ follow-up to Kirsten Edkins’ Shapes & Sound album.
Produced by Joe Harley and recorded all-analogue/all-tube at Gray’s studio, Cohearent Recording, the AAA vinyl release is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI and housed in a deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings – Analogue Productions 180g Vinyl

£49.95
A previously unreleased live recording of drum legend Art Blakey with a classic line-up of the Jazz Messengers, featuring trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt. It was captured on January 14, 1961, at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo during the band’s first-ever tour of Japan. Co-produced by Zev Feldman and David Weiss, the audio was newly transferred from the original 1/4″ tape reels.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Drum Suite – Impex Records 180g Vinyl

£49.95
180-gram vinyl reissue
Numbered, limited to 2,500 copies worldwide
Impex Records presents the all-analog, 180-gram LP: Art Blakey's seminal (and highly influential) Drum Suite.

ART PEPPER + Eleven 180g Audiophile Vinyl

£48.00
Throughout the 1950s, '60s and '70s, Lester Koenig's artist-friendly Los Angeles-based audiophile jazz label documented career-defining performances by some of modern jazz's most influential and accomplished improvisers, including Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Harold Land and Benny Golson. No musician is more closely identified with Contemporary than Pepper, whose cool tone and simmering lyricism made him one of the very few mid-century alto saxophonists to forge a path independent of bebop patriarch Charlie Parker's pervasive influence. Produced by Koenig and recorded in 1959, Art Pepper +Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics is one of the saxophonist's masterpieces. Featuring brilliant arrangements by Marty Paich, the album elaborates on the lush but lithe sound introduced by the epochal Birth of the Cool sessions, which Miles Davis started to record almost exactly a decade earlier (like Birth, +Eleven kick offs with Denzil Best's "Move"). Surrounded by the cream of the LA scene, including fellow saxophone masters Herb Geller, Bill Perkins and Med Flory, Pepper brings all his scorching lyricism to a program of modern jazz standards by Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan and Sonny Rollins.

Arthur Fiedler / Boston Pops Orchestra – Chopin: Les Sylphides / Prokofieff: Love For Three Oranges – Analogue Productions 200g Vinyl

£49.96
Easily the most popular conductor of his era, Arthur Fiedler was classical music’s greatest ambassador since Mozart, and also one of those rare conductors whose records were not only successful, but serious profit centers, both for his orchestra and his record labels.

Audiophile Masters Vol 1 – PS Audio Gold SACD

£55.00
A stunning new collection of great music and breathtaking recordings direct from the DSD masters.

Bach Cello Suites – PS Audio Gold SACD

£89.95
""Stunning!" The six unaccompanied cello suites are a cornerstone of the classical cello repertoire.”

Bad Company – Bad Company – Analogue Productions Atlantic 75 Series 45 rpm 180g Vinyl

£75.00
DUE SOON
From the wreckage of Free came Bad Company, the English hard rock supergroup fronted by singer Paul Rodgers and featuring his drummer bandmate Simon Kirke, Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs, and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who managed the rock band Led Zeppelin, also managed Bad Company until 1982.

Barbra Streisand – Live At The Bon Soir – Impex Records 180g 2LP Vinyl

£75.00
Barbra – the way she was!
Her earliest live recordings: 24 magical songs that defined her artistry

Barney Kessel, Ray Brown, and Shelly Manne – The Poll Winners – Acoustic Sounds Series

£45.00
Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70 years of the legendary jazz label. The releases are supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, the world’s largest source for audiophile recordings.
Each title, originally engineered by Roy DuNann and/or Howard Holzer, features all-analog mastering from the original tapes by legendary engineer Bernie Grundman (himself a former employee of the label), as well as unsurpassed audiophile pressing on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, presented in a Stoughton Printing old-style tip-on jacket.
The series highlights gems from Contemporary’s extraordinary catalog and features artists who both defined and expanded the sound of West Coast jazz.
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Beastie Boys – The Def Jam Master Demos Vinyl LP

£14.95
A limited black vinyl pressing of The Def Jam Master Demos from the hip-hop legends Beastie Boys.
 

Beethoven Egmont Overture – Symphony No.5 – Chasing the Dragon – Reel To Reel 1/2 Track 7 1/2 ips

£250.00
Master Quality 7″ Spool, 1/2 Track, 7 1/2 IPS Reel To Reel Tape! Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible! Chasing The Dragon had the opportunity of recording a live Beethoven concert performed at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. From this event, they have been able to release 2 new recordings featuring the Locrian Ensemble of London, conducted by Rimma Sushanskaya. Also recorded on the same day was a Piano Concerto No 5 performance by the Locrian Ensemble of London.

Beethoven Egmont Overture – Symphony No.5 – Chasing the Dragon – Reel To Reel 1/4″ 15 ips

£400.00
Master Quality  1/4" 15 ips Reel To Reel Tape! Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible! Chasing The Dragon had the opportunity of recording a live Beethoven concert performed at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. From this event, they have been able to release 2 new recordings featuring the Locrian Ensemble of London, conducted by Rimma Sushanskaya. Also recorded on the same day was a Piano Concerto No 5 performance by the Locrian Ensemble of London.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 – Emperor – Chasing the Dragon – Reel To Reel 1/2 Track 7 1/2 ips

£250.00
Master Quality 7″ Spool, 1/2 Track, 7 1/2 IPS Reel To Reel Tape! Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible! Known as the "Emperor", John Lenehan gives a superb performance with the Locrian Ensemble. It is a live concert recorded at St Martins in the Field. Only four microphones were used to capture the orchestra within this superb acoustical space.  

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 – Emperor – Chasing the Dragon – Reel To Reel 1/4″ 15 ips

£400.00
Master Quality  1/4" 15 ips Reel To Reel Tape! Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible! Known as the "Emperor", John Lenehan gives a superb performance with the Locrian Ensemble. It is a live concert recorded at St Martins in the Field. Only four microphones were used to capture the orchestra within this superb acoustical space.  

Beethoven Piano Sonatas – Pathetique and Moonlight – Chasing the Dragon – Reel To Reel 1/2 Track 7 1/2 ips

£250.00
Master Quality  7" 1/2 Track 7 1/2 IPS Reel To Reel Tape! Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible! Live studio recording of pianist John Lenehan's performance of Beethoven's Moonlight and Pathetique Piano Sonatas.

Beethoven Piano Sonatas – Pathetique and Moonlight – Chasing the Dragon – Reel To Reel 1/4″ 15 ips

£400.00
Master Quality  1/4" 15 ips Reel To Reel Tape! Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible! Live studio recording of pianist John Lenehan's performance of Beethoven's Moonlight and Pathetique Piano Sonatas.

Belanger & Bisson – Conversations Vinyl

£45.00
The multi-talented pianist and vocalist Anne Bisson and cellist Vincent Belanger collaborate for an album of musical “Conversations”. The album includes music composed by Belanger and Bisson along with Sylvie Massicote, Pierre Lenoir, David Chesky, Vincent’s uncle Marc Belanger, and Fung Sou. The variety of composers brings a variety of styles to the table including Chinese music (sung in Mandarin), jazz, Latin rhythms, Bossa Nova, and songs of relationships and lost loves