AUDIOPHYLE VINYL

For the first time since 1994, Loreena’s latest recording is also available on vinyl. The Wind that Shakes the Barley is being offered as high-quality, 180-gram vinyl in a numbered, limited edition run of 5,000, and these are anticipated to become collectors’ items.

While CDs and downloads have reduced resolutions, vinyl can reproduce some aspects of the music best of all because it’s mastered from the full-range, high-resolution digital master, not a digitally-reduced CD. “Vinyl gives you a wonderful warm sound and compared to a CD, even played on a good system, the sound of Lorenna’s vinyl is slightly wider because it comes from a better source,” explains Bob Ludwig the Mastering Engineer for The Wind That Shakes the Barley, adding that vinyl is also able to capture an entire octave of high frequencies that CDs can’t.
 
Bob masters a lot of rock and pop music, but working on Loreena’s latest album was special. “Working on a project like this is like getting your ears cleaned,” he says. “The Wind that Shakes the Barley is acoustic and it’s gorgeously performed, recorded in a great acoustic location by a great engineer Jeff Wolpert. It’s just a fantastic listen from an audiophile’s perspective.”

Read more about the recording of The Wind That Shakes the Barley.