"CASINO ROYALE"Colgems/RCA 1967 COSO 5005 - used"CASINO ROYALE" - Colgems/RCA 1967 COSO 5005 -  TAS 10 Best Popular RecordingsThis is it. The "Grandaddy" of Audiophile "Wish-Lists".On the top of Harry Pearson's "Best of The Bunch" Popular list. "As vinyl verges on extinction, one album has emerged as the prime specimen ...85.00

"CASINO ROYALE" - Colgems/RCA 1967 COSO 5005 - TAS 10 Best Popular Recordings

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Ships fromHicksville, NY, 11801
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This is it. The "Grandaddy" of Audiophile "Wish-Lists".On the top of Harry Pearson's "Best of The Bunch" Popular list. "As vinyl verges on extinction, one album has emerged as the prime specimen of the species. Of all the millions of recordings released in the 114 years since Thomas Edison asked, "What hath God wrought?" this album has come closest to achieving the potential of a vanishing medium. It represents "the paradigm," says one audiophile, "the paramount, if you will." It is . . . the original soundtrack of the 1967 movie "Casino Royale." The soundtrack, like everything else about the movie, was over the top. "The legend is that the original master tape had 'mad' levels on it," says Harry Pearson, editor and publisher of the audiophile bible Absolute Sound and, by general consensus, the person most responsible for creating the "Casino Royale" cult. Mr. Pearson explains that a sound engineer usually adjusts recording levels so that when musicians are playing their loudest, the meters on the console reach zero. "Once the meters pass zero, it means that you're saturating the tape and running the risk of distortion," he says. "On 'Casino,' they used a supposedly very fancy grade of tape, and the engineers really pushed it, so the meters were typically running deep into the red -- plus one, plus two, plus three, plus four." As a result, he says, the record has an "extremely wide dynamic range" -- higher highs and lower lows. "They weren't afraid to push the medium to the limits of the recording process," Mr. Pearson adds. "It can lead to disaster, but in the case of 'Casino,' it doesn't. There's no saturation, no distortion. The record is as clean as a whistle." For this reason, ever since the album's release, audiophiles have valued "Casino Royale" as a test for stereo equipment. "The better your system gets," says Mr. Pearson, "the more you get out of that album." - NY Times.

The record is VG+.
The jacket is Fair.
The LP sounds Mint++.

This LP is, by far, the most detailed and best imaging pressing I have heard to date - and I have heard many, many copies of this title. While 'Casino Royale' is noted for it's imaging and dynamics, I have always found the imaging to be mostly 2 dimensional - this pressing has not only superb L/R imaging but also incredible depth as well - almost 3-D in the center. Typically, dynamics have alsways been superb but somewhat lacking detail at the crescendos - this LP is crystal clear all the way through. I have heard instruments that I've never before noticed on any other copies - a revelation, to say the least. This is without a doubt, IMHO, the best pressing I have heard of this 'cult classic' LP.
Surface noise is present on both sides (mostly between tracks). Side 1 has some very low-level 'tickes and crackles' on very quiet passages but they are almost un-noticeable. Side 2 has some more audible 'ticks' than Side 1.

Each record is washed on a VPI cleaning machine using a proprietary 3-5 agent process which is determined by the needs of the individual record. Each record is then listened to 100% to insure that the posted description is exactly what you can expect to get.

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