https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:56:13 +0000 Sat, 18 Oct 2025 22:38:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=8753 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8753&PID=67398&title=carly-simon-youre-so-vain#67398 Author: LunarLaugh
Subject: 8753
Posted: 18 October 2025 at 10:38pm

The CLOUDS box is definitely on the louder side... but it's Ted Jensen loud so its okay. ]]> Sat, 18 Oct 2025 22:38:25 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8753&PID=67398&title=carly-simon-youre-so-vain#67398 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8753&PID=67397&title=carly-simon-youre-so-vain#67397 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 8753
Posted: 18 October 2025 at 4:54pm

I listened to the version from Clouds In My Coffee. It's better than the common compilations that I listed, but I still prefer the Rhino disc. Clouds is mastered a bit too loud and clips a bit.

The EQ on the Rhino disc has *WAY* more high end than the common compilations. (I realize now that there be too much high end for some ears.) The EQ brightness on Clouds is somewhere between the common compilations and the Rhino disc.

Clouds sounds quite good, to be sure. I'm a fan of Ted Jensen from his late '80s work at Atlantic, including the Aretha Franklin Queen Of Soul box. Great source tapes, all mastered without severe processing or extra noise reduction.]]> Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:54:39 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8753&PID=67397&title=carly-simon-youre-so-vain#67397 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8753&PID=67396&title=carly-simon-youre-so-vain#67396 Author: kaqueno
Subject: 8753
Posted: 18 October 2025 at 3:54pm

One of the many reasons I joined the forum was to read Ron's reports. They're wonderful. All Top 40 songs should have these reports. Sorry, Ron, I don't want to give you too much work, jajaja!

crapfromthepast wrote: The 45 is the same as the LP version. Both run 4:17. The acoustic guitar starting at 0:05 is panned to the left. The oldest CD I have with "You're So Vain" is Elektra's Carly Simon Best Of (copyright 1975, my copy has RE-1 in the matrix number). It sounds OK. No noise reduction, reasonable EQ, nice dynamic range, but likely not the lowest-generation source tape. The same analog transfer is used on: Priority's Seventies Greatest Rock Hits Vol. 3 High Times (1991) - about 6 dB louder and clips a bit; avoid JCI's Only Rock 'N Roll 1970-1974 (1994) Cema's 2-CD Bell Bottom Rock (1996) - digitally exactly 0.136 dB quieter Razor & Tie's 7-CD 70 Number One Hits Of The 70s Vol. 5 (1998) There's a different analog transfer on Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 25 Seventies Generation (1992). It sounds comparable to Best Of, and probably doesn't use the lowest-generation source tape. The same analog transfer is used on: Razor & Tie's 2-CD Super '70s (1995) Time-Life's Superhits Vol. 13 1973 (1992), which is identical to Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 3 1973 (1992) in every way, also uses the same analog transfer as Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 25 Seventies Generation, but swaps the left and right channels so that the acoustic guitar starting at 0:05 is panned to the right. The following discs use the same analog transfer as Superhits/AM Gold, and all also have the left/right channels swapped: Time-Life's 2-CD Singers And Songwriters Vol. 1 1972-1973 (2000) - digitally exactly 2.5 dB louder Time-Life's 2-CD Seventies Music Explosion Vol. 1 Sunshine (2005) - digitally exactly 2.5 dB louder Time-Life's 2-CD Classic Soft Rock Vol. 2 Ride Like The Wind (2006) - differently-EQ'd digital clone Reader's Digest's 4-CD Time In A Bottle (2006) And then, towering above everything I listed above, is Rhino's Billboard Top Soft Rock Hits 1973 (1997). This disc likely uses a lower-generation source tape than all of the above, and as a result, sounds much more lively than those discs. I don't have any of the other Carly Simon collections, so I can't comment on them one way or another. Among my rather limited collection of discs, I'd recommend Rhino's Billboard Top Soft Rock Hits 1973 (1997).

]]> Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:54:05 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8753&PID=67396&title=carly-simon-youre-so-vain#67396 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8753&PID=67395&title=carly-simon-youre-so-vain#67395 Author: LunarLaugh
Subject: 8753
Posted: 17 October 2025 at 11:08pm

I wonder if Top Soft Rock Hits uses the same transfer as the excellent CLOUDS IN MY COFFEE 3-CD box set that Ted Jensen mastered (the liner notes for the box have a little blurb about how record company tape libraries and private collections were scoured for the best possible sources). Ted Jensen is one of my personal favorite mastering engineers and that box set is pretty much the best any of Carly's tunes will sound, IMHO.

Edited by LunarLaugh - 17 October 2025 at 11:09pm]]> Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:08:10 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8753&PID=67395&title=carly-simon-youre-so-vain#67395 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8753&PID=47499&title=carly-simon-youre-so-vain#47499 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 8753
Posted: 01 June 2017 at 8:29pm

The 45 is the same as the LP version. Both run 4:17. The acoustic guitar starting at 0:05 is panned to the left.

The oldest CD I have with "You're So Vain" is Elektra's Carly Simon Best Of (copyright 1975, my copy has RE-1 in the matrix number). It sounds OK. No noise reduction, reasonable EQ, nice dynamic range, but likely not the lowest-generation source tape. The same analog transfer is used on:

• Priority's Seventies Greatest Rock Hits Vol. 3 High Times (1991) - about 6 dB louder and clips a bit; avoid
• JCI's Only Rock 'N Roll 1970-1974 (1994)
• Cema's 2-CD Bell Bottom Rock (1996) - digitally exactly 0.136 dB quieter
• Razor & Tie's 7-CD 70 Number One Hits Of The 70s Vol. 5 (1998)

There's a different analog transfer on Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 25 Seventies Generation (1992). It sounds comparable to Best Of, and probably doesn't use the lowest-generation source tape. The same analog transfer is used on:

• Razor & Tie's 2-CD Super '70s (1995)

Time-Life's Superhits Vol. 13 1973 (1992), which is identical to Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 3 1973 (1992) in every way, also uses the same analog transfer as Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 25 Seventies Generation, but swaps the left and right channels so that the acoustic guitar starting at 0:05 is panned to the right. The following discs use the same analog transfer as Superhits/AM Gold, and all also have the left/right channels swapped:

• Time-Life's 2-CD Singers And Songwriters Vol. 1 1972-1973 (2000) - digitally exactly 2.5 dB louder
• Time-Life's 2-CD Seventies Music Explosion Vol. 1 Sunshine (2005) - digitally exactly 2.5 dB louder
• Time-Life's 2-CD Classic Soft Rock Vol. 2 Ride Like The Wind (2006) - differently-EQ'd digital clone
• Reader's Digest's 4-CD Time In A Bottle (2006)

And then, towering above everything I listed above, is Rhino's Billboard Top Soft Rock Hits 1973 (1997). This disc likely uses a lower-generation source tape than all of the above, and as a result, sounds much more lively than those discs.

I don't have any of the other Carly Simon collections, so I can't comment on them one way or another.

Among my rather limited collection of discs, I'd recommend Rhino's Billboard Top Soft Rock Hits 1973 (1997).]]> Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:29:24 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8753&PID=47499&title=carly-simon-youre-so-vain#47499