Standard vinyl is mastered from digital files, we leave that to others. Most of our titles are mastered from the original analogue tapes, the reason for this is simple, Sound Quality. You will find one of the UK’s widest selections of audiophile quality vinyl here at MCRU.
We stock titles from Mobile Fidelity Soundlabs (Mofi), Analogue Productions, Reference Recordings, Chasing the Dragon, Impex, Pure Pleasure, MA Recordings, Gearbox Records and more.
If you are serious about sound quality then you need to browse our vinyl selection.
A Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald – Clare Teal 180g Vinyl
Alan Parsons – I Robot – MoFi Ultradisc 180g 33RPM Vinyl Box Set
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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
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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.Alexander Gibson – Witches’ Brew – Analogue Productions 180g Vinyl
We’ve taken this classic and given it the full Analogue Productions reissue treatment, featuring a remaster by Germany’s Willem Makkee from the original analog tapes, and plating and 180-gram pressing by Quality Record Pressings. Topping it off is a thick cardboard Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket.
If such music didn’t cast the right sort of spell, so many listeners wouldn’t be returning to it on so many occasions, somehow feeling constantly refreshed.
Alice Cooper – Welcome To My Nightmare – Analogue Productions Atlantic 75 Series Hybrid Stereo SACD
Analogue Productions UHQR Vinyl Complete Set
- 1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love Stereo
- 2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love Momo
- 3. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
- 4. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue 33rpm
- 5. Miles Davis = Kind Of Blue 45rpm
- 6. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
- 7. Bob Marley + The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
- 8. Bob Marley + The Wailers - Exodus
- 9. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
- 10. John Coltrane - Ballads
- 11. Steely Dan - Aja
- 12. Steely Dab - Can't Buy A Thrill
- 13. Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstacy
- 14. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
- 15. Steely Dan - Gaucho
- 16. The White Stripes - Elephant
Anne Bisson – Keys To My Heart 180g 45RPM One Step Vinyl
Anne Bisson Trio – Four Seasons In Jazz Live At Bernie’s – Direct to Disc Vinyl
Anthony Wilson – Hackensack West 180g 33RPM Cohearent Records Vinyl
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.
Arnett Cobb – Ballads By Cobb – Analogue Productions 180g Stereo Vinyl
Originally released in November 1960, Ballads by Cobb, as its title suggests, is all slow ballads, putting the emphasis on the Texas tenor’s warm tone.
A Texas tenor player in the tradition of Illinois Jacquet, Arnett Cobb’s accessible playing was between swing and early rhythm & blues. His stomping, robust style earned him the title “Wild Man of the Tenor Sax.”
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings – Blue Note Records 180g Vinyl
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.