Crosby Stills & Nash on Audio Fidelity gold CD - an early warning!!

Announced on the Steve Hoffman vanity board by the vanity master himself - Crosby Stills & Nash debut album coming soon on Adio Fidelity 24k gold CD.

Hoffman himself on his board has stated that his new remastering is, aside from Bernie Grundman's Classic 200g vinyl of a few years back, the only use of the true master tape on CD...as the great guru states:

"Well, WSP told us that they came from Stills not Nash. Does it matter? The CS&N gang had them, let's just say that. At any rate, we used them for our disk and Classic used them for their vinyl cutting. That's about it for use so far, I think. Maybe we'll use them again for our 78 RPM vinyl version.."

So, essentially, what Huffy is claiming is that his new version is the only CD taken from the true master tape. Whatever - that in itself is not unusual, but in this case, Hoffster and Audio Fidelity are actually competing against an audiophile release on gold CD from over a decade ago, that Atlantic put out, remastered by Joe Gastwirt. The booklet of that one states "From the original master tapes" and shows pictures of the original master tape boxes.

It would make sense for Hoffman and AF to want to cast aspersions on that version. The audiophile market is a rather limited one, and many potential customers will already have that version, and collectors pay pretty big bucks for it these days.

Personally, I don't care. The older Atlantic gold disc sounds superb, with a very true tonality capturing the dry, difficult acoustic Martin tone very accurately. It is a great mastering job.

Hoffman has not the slightest clue  what tape was used previously. He's just doing his usual salesman job of casting doubts to pump up his version.

I have heard too much of this half truths and little subtle putdowns by Hoffman to get sucked in again, so I will stick to my trusted Atlantic gold CD and avoid Audio Fidelity, whose track record is, to say the least, not very good.