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Monday, February 20, 2012

Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Step (1989)

Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Step , Mobile Fidelity SACD (1989) Remaster

I am caught in the Crossfire !

  In Step was Vaughan's 4th and final album with the Double Trouble lineup and is a wonderful album that all fans of blues MUST hear.  And what way to hear better than on Mofi's SACD!  This has to be one of my personal favorite Blues rock albums of all time.....clearly I am caught in the Crossfire !  Vaughan lets it all go on this album with some of his best R&B moments and a guarantee that your toes will never stop tappin '

   As usual the folks at MoFi have done a great version in presenting this well balanced album in glorious SACD !  Like most of the MoFi releases this album at higher volumes just leaps out at you unlike most standard CD, Vinyl or 8-Track will !   (kidding about the 8-Track).   I believe originally this was a pure digital recording and yet it carries many of the characteristics of the great analog era.   Without a question Stevie Ray's vocals just leap out at you on this remaster and sound just so clean and distinctive.   This master has a nice full dynamic sound that albeit less dynamic as other SACD releases still sounds nice and warm and very well produced (thus the analog reference earlier).

  This SACD release is simply amazing and THIS is the reason why I love the pursuit of the audiophile  

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