astrostar59
BannedMember of the Trade: Aries Cerat Espana, Auriculares High-EndAKA Headstage, headphoneweekend
@astrostar59 OK I misunderstood your point. In a sense, everything you said is happening to some degree. By that I mean bootlegs made from master tape sources (close to the real thing as possible), bootlegs made from remasters intended for CD at 16/44.1 then put to vinyl, bootlegs from one vinyl to another (will introduct some form of degradation in the re-recording/re-plating process), but the worst we can all agree are the ones that are bootlegs made from MP3 masters. However we can safely assume the people who press MP3 to vinyl for remasters are either hopelessly ignorant of what they are doing, or scammers who couldn't care less what the vinyl sounds like. This group falls into the latter you mentioned, the equivalent of "dodgy DVDs at the seaside type of thing". That is certainly not the industry as a whole I agree, but more labels than one would expect engage in this sort of behavior. There was a release recently from an independent startup label who claimed to get the rights of a musician who self released a cassette in the early 90s. well it got rediscovered and somewhat popular again, and this label put the album out on vinyl. It wasn't until some hardcore cassette collectors got a copy of the vinyl, found it sounded not only worse than their cassettes but was the wrong artist and album entirely! It turned out to be - of all things - a YouTube rip pressed to vinyl. Someone had uploaded the wrong cassette rip to youtube, and the vinyl is complete with all the YouTube lo-fi warbliness.
then again that could get me on a whole different rant of youtubers filming their vinyls playing when their record players can't even keep a consistent speed.
Totally agree with all of above.
On the Lambdas, I think many of the Lambda previous incarnations and some of the current 207/307407/507 HPs do have some of that legacy. I am sure of the strident 6K range, but I did get really fed up with the treble etch of my various Lamda models. The smoothest I found was the Lambda Nova Signature, but even that needed a smooth DAC or source.
I would go for the new L700 (bit more like a scaled down 009) or the 007A. The 007A is super smooth and has great bass, a different animal altogether IMO.