The Hilliard Ensemble – Officium

Everything is great except for the last track that has some serious pops. I don't have a cleaning machine

My pressing is quiet, and the sound quality is excellent. Garbarek's sax soars; you can imagine being in a church with superb acoustics when you hear this. I highly recommend this pressing.

Sounds like perfectly good spiritual choral music, with Kenny G piffling about over the top of it. A crushing disappointment.

Very quiet pressing and high quality sound. Possibly the best sounding record in my collection!

Huge congratulations to ECM and their vinyl revival project. They've made use of the original analog tapes, which will gratify purists, and produced an outstanding pressing that is beautifully quiet. Perhaps not surprisingly, I find vinyl suits Garbarek's soaring sax much better than the CD version. All in all a superb recording and pressing.

My pressing is very quiet and plays completely without deviations. I also think that the vinyl is better mastered than the CD version. I experience that the peaks at the high frequencies from Garbarek are slightly more cut, which gives a more pleasant listening experience.

Really disappointed in this reissue; pretty noisy pressing. Tried cleaning it a few times, to no avail. Music is top notch, though.

worth it for parce mihi domine alone. probably one of the most seriously transcendental (cliché alert) pieces of music, which still manages to keep an effortless airiness to it. man, that sax. i'm balding m8