Paul McCartney & Wings Band On The Run Nimbus Supercut
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Description
Band on the Run nimbus supercut vinyl in excellent condition sleeve shows some shelf wear includes poster and inner sleeve with lyrics
The famous Nimbus Supercut pressings of a few select records are highly sought after and much treasured by audiophiles and collectors, as they are amongst the best examples of just how good vinyl can sound. Sold through magazines like HiFi Today they quickly became sold out and hard to find, are are only going to become more difficult to source.
I have had this album since new, and it has only been played once or twice.
Said to be the best pressing ever of this classic album, and increasingly hard to find in any condition, this copy is a real treat - The vinyl is in close to mint condition with no spindle wear , comes with the inner and poster.
Sadly, the cover is not totally as new, and has a few small creases or marks. I have heard that it is known to be a poorly printed cover and there is some evidence of it having lived in a collection - That said, I would still rate it as very good.
The techie stuff, courtesy of Nimbus :- They were, in as many cases as possible, done from original quarter inch production masters not from copies. They were cut using a Neumann SX 74 Cutter Head driven by Neumann VG1 valve Amplifier Rack. The only other active components in the programme chain apart from the Studer A80 Pre-Listen Machine used to playing back the tapes was an Ortoton High Frequency Limiter, from memory their STL 732 which acts as a variable low pass filter rather than in other more radical fashions, and is therefore benign in its effects. A level control between the tape machine and the cutting system was a passive switched resister network. All the cuts were done flat without any equalising, compression or limiting apart from some gentle high frequency limiting to make for playable high frequency signals. The Neumann Lathe used for these cuts was extensively modified by us and included a very advanced vari-groove system for groove spacing, enabling longer playing times with a larger minimum radius, thereby reducing distortion at the end of sides. They were all pressed using a special Power Blend of vinyl which ICI made exclusively for us. It retained a near flat overall frequency response I have heard that it is know to be a poorly printed cover and there is some evidence of it having lived in a collection - That said, I would still rate it as Very Goo
