https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:47:19 +0000 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:12:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=9543 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=9543&PID=65714&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65714 Author: LunarLaugh
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Posted: 07 February 2025 at 5:12pm

The Supremes box set (with the dark pink velvet cover) that Suha Gur did does have some superior transfers of the mixes from the original
Greatest Hits albums (H-D-H remixed these tracks before they left Motown) and it's worth tracking down for some interesting alternates, too. Its
not perfect in terms of EQ, but the cleanup on the older tracks is especially well-done. ]]> Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:12:21 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65714&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65714 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65713&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65713 Author: EternalStatic
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Posted: 07 February 2025 at 4:35pm

Good to know -- I do recall hearing some Gold and 20th Century Masters releases that were done by Gur that I thought were a little overdone as far as the level of compression
and sweetening. I don't outright dislike his work, but I'm glad the Supremes release went to someone else.]]> Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:35:54 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65713&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65713 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65698&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65698 Author: LunarLaugh
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Posted: 05 February 2025 at 3:42pm

Gold was mastered by Kevin Reeves whose mastering work I tend to prefer over that of Suha Gur (who is usually the one behind the EQ
desk when it comes to Supremes releases in the Universal Music era of Motown releases). ]]> Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:42:12 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65698&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65698 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65693&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65693 Author: EternalStatic
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Posted: 04 February 2025 at 4:09pm

Thanks for the additional recommendation, PopArchivist and david, and for the additional analysis, cftp! I have a downloaded version of Gold, but it sounded so good and
full that I almost distrusted it, as in, I would have assumed it was full of latter-day remixes, etc. Glad to know I can hang on to it. I am still in the market for the
Anthology though. ]]> Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:09:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65693&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65693 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65691&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65691 Author: PopArchivist
Subject: 9543
Posted: 04 February 2025 at 7:46am

crapfromthepast wrote: I sampled three songs from Gold, and liked what I heard on all three. "You Keep Me Hangin' On" is EQ'd to dial back the vocals and emphasize the bass, compared to Compact Command Performances. "Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart" has some severe tape problems on Compact Command Performances. It's missing the first few beats of the song, fades early, has it left/right channels swapped, and has at least one big tape dropout. It's much better on Gold. "Some Things You Never Get Used To" isn't on Compact Command Performances, so I compared Gold with the 1986 2-CD Anthology. Gold has a slightly wider soundstage (listen to bleed-through in the left channel on the intro). Aside from an A-to-D converter issue that truncates the top half of the waveform in the left channel on Anthology, the sound quality is comparable between the two. The EQ of Gold bring out the bass a little more and dials back the vocals, although not with as drastic a difference as "You Keep Me Hangin' On". Overall, if I can generalize from the three songs I heard, I like the EQ, the source tapes seem low-generation, there's plenty of dynamic range, and there's no evidence of added noise reduction on the fades. I approve! Good call, PopArchivist!

Several artists from the 60's have Gold releases (Marvin Gaye, Cher, Etta James, for example). The Gaye one is my go to for stereo LP for him as well....the Cher one has some 60's songs on it that are mastered well. ]]> Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:46:59 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65691&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65691 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65689&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65689 Author: davidclark
Subject: 9543
Posted: 04 February 2025 at 4:15am

I also use Gold for many/most stereo LP mixes.]]> Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:15:38 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65689&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65689 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65687&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65687 Author: crapfromthepast
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Posted: 03 February 2025 at 8:40pm

I sampled three songs from Gold, and liked what I heard on all three.

"You Keep Me Hangin' On" is EQ'd to dial back the vocals and emphasize the bass, compared to Compact Command Performances.

"Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart" has some severe tape problems on Compact Command Performances. It's missing the first few beats of the song, fades early, has it left/right channels swapped, and has at least one big tape dropout. It's much better on Gold.

"Some Things You Never Get Used To" isn't on Compact Command Performances, so I compared Gold with the 1986 2-CD Anthology. Gold has a slightly wider soundstage (listen to bleed-through in the left channel on the intro). Aside from an A-to-D converter issue that truncates the top half of the waveform in the left channel on Anthology, the sound quality is comparable between the two. The EQ of Gold bring out the bass a little more and dials back the vocals, although not with as drastic a difference as "You Keep Me Hangin' On".

Overall, if I can generalize from the three songs I heard, I like the EQ, the source tapes seem low-generation, there's plenty of dynamic range, and there's no evidence of added noise reduction on the fades.

I approve! Good call, PopArchivist!
]]> Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:40:11 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65687&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65687 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65686&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65686 Author: PopArchivist
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Posted: 03 February 2025 at 9:21am

EternalStatic wrote: Enjoyed reading your breakdown with my morning coffee. I envision you just throwing discs into different stacks once the mix is determined and scratching your head like a mad scientist! (I know you're probably mostly comparing ripped tracks, but please, let me have my fun.) This may have been addressed elsewhere, but do you (or any other readers) have an overall recommendation for the one best purchase for getting a good and thorough Supremes hit collection with a good balance of "right" but also "good sounding" versions? I have a copy of the Gold collection from 2005, which is pretty thorough but I get the feeling it's likely full of remixes as created throughout the years.

I have found the best sounding stereo LP versions to be in the Gold series.

https://www.amazon.com/Gold-2-CD-Supremes/dp/B000929AFU/ref= sr_1_2?crid=YMS2LVJHV7M7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.in9RA6VWtSj2XPWj8f o_5sPQW9c4pZjM7mEmictOjJe__j1m-dtcf_oe7-GgzZn48bBCON0G1sKUgU Enzi9EwiTt00t5IFTVQES2dVLQNTLtV_qQsybuunXeKLvaOml9Z0Qf_nZgvG fwzmTQON6iXNAAY_dWpSpiLmIr9j75Uz7pC3fgT8-yQem60ydgskwFtyQZyT Qg6u_u1Y5uT4HZEmzlsk_aH6R0dj4ofdDf7tI.FPBuzWcCt1WceWgFhyGVCm zQd7gWMd8PYx2-3xtbEeU&dib_tag=se&keywords=gold+supremes&qid= 1738599685&sprefix=gold+supreme3%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-2

Go with Ron's recommendation for the mono.]]> Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:21:45 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65686&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65686 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65669&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65669 Author: EternalStatic
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Posted: 25 January 2025 at 12:09pm

I had sort of a premonition that you would say Anthology ... Probably going to track both of these down. I like options!

Thanks for the info.]]> Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:09:14 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65669&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65669 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9543&PID=65668&title=supremes-where-did-our-love-go#65668 Author: crapfromthepast
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Posted: 25 January 2025 at 11:58am

How about two recommendations?

Motown's 2-CD Supremes Anthology (1995) does a stellar job of rounding up the mono versions, which were the hits. Motown released a whole series of these Anthology discs around 1995, all with similar artwork, most mastered by Bill Inglot, and most featuring the mono versions. This collection is the one you want if you only want to buy one. If you want to bulk up on Motown, hunt down the rest of the series of mid-'90s Anthology collections. They're that good.

Motown's Supremes Compact Command Performances 20 Greatest Hits (1983) does a superb job with the stereo versions of the hits. The stereo versions weren't the hits at the time, and were often treated as an afterthought by Motown. Still, if you must hear these songs in stereo, go with this one. The tracks are well chosen, and it sounds about as good as these tracks will sound in stereo. Motown released a whole series of these Compact Command Performances discs in the early '80s. Most are mastered by John Matousek, and most are excellent. (There are a few that feature non-Motown artists; avoid those.)

Happy hunting!

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