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Steve, congratulations on a great career & for simply being the best. You are an industry titan.
http://www.audiofidelity.net
For Audio Fidelity, Steve is again mastering some of the greatest Pop and Rock albums of all time for 24 Karat Gold CDs, SACDs and 180 gram LPs. The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds", Deep Purple "Machine Head", Linda Ronstadt "Heart Like A Wheel", Yes "Close To The Edge", Warren Zevon "Excitable Boy" among many others.
Steve has worked on 180 gram audiophile vinyl record releases from Tom Petty, Donald Fagen, The White Stripes and Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has remastered the classics "Fragile" by Yes and "Blue" by Joni Mitchell. In addition, for Warner Bros./Rhino Records he has mastered on vinyl the classic Van Morrison "Moondance", James Taylor's "Sweet Baby James", Frank Sinatra and a host of others. Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray are remastering some of the greatest Blue Note albums of all time for the definitive 45 RPM Blue Note Reissue Series by Music Matters, Ltd. and Analogue Productions, pressed on Virgin 180 gram vinyl at RTI and SACD.
For Analogue Productions, Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray remastered the back catalog of Creedence Clearwater Revival and over 100 of the greatest Jazz and Blues albums at 45 RPM. Steve's remixing and mastering of the important works of Nat King Cole on both 45 RPM vinyl and surround sound SACD have been the most challenging of Steve's career, over a year in the making. Steve and Kevin also remaster LPs for the British label Pure Pleasure Records.
Steve started his own website at the beginning of 2002. If somebody wants a great audiophile music forum, and likes sharing his opinions with others... be it your favorite recordings, the mastering work of Steve Hoffman, or anything else related to music, this is the place to be – with more than 30.000 members and a million hits a week, it is one of the biggest and most visited audiophile music forums. THE place to discuss music on the Internet!
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Post by zeus April 29, 2014 (2 of 12)
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HoffmanRulez said:
THE place to discuss music on the Internet!
Makes me wonder why you're bothering here then.
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Post by Links April 29, 2014 (3 of 12)
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Who is HoffmanRulez ?
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Links said:
Who is HoffmanRulez ?
A take on "Hoffman Rules" who goes by the initials KH (since, changed) in the detail section.
With all the controversy going on at the Steve Hoffman website (pro and con) a devout fanboy, for sure!
Shall we start a ZeusRulez thread....or how about POLLYMANIA?
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HoffmanRulez said:
Steve started his own website at the beginning of 2002. If somebody wants a great audiophile music forum, and likes sharing his opinions with others... be it your favorite recordings, the mastering work of Steve Hoffman, or anything else related to music, this is the place to be – with more than 30.000 members and a million hits a week, it is one of the biggest and most visited audiophile music forums. THE place to discuss music on the Internet!
I am unfamiliar with his audio work but, although he may like sharing his opinions with others, the forum is not tolerant of the opinions of others.
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Kal Rubinson said:
I am unfamiliar with his audio work but, although he may like sharing his opinions with others, the forum is not tolerant of the opinions of others.
Yes, Kal, there's a name for that: AUDIOCRAT!
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rammiepie said:
Yes, Kal, there's a name for that: AUDIOCRAT!
Change the last letter to P.
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Kal Rubinson said:
Change the last letter to P.
No can do, Kal.
I actually admire the man's work and having read some recent "rants" on SH Forum, he was accused of not obtaining the absolute masters on a recent project. Whose fault is that: HIS or the studios releasing the masters?????
As is usual on the world wide net, short of death threats, I'm sure a lot of abuse is waged at the man simply because a lot of posters do not have the equipment to properly do justice to his masterings (MY guess).
He IS anti~multichannel........but again, that's HIS perogative.
With Audio Fidelity possibly gearing toward releasing their SACDs in multichannel.......wonder who'll be tackling these assignments? Certainly NOT Mr. Hoffman!
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Post by zeus April 29, 2014 (9 of 12)
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Kal Rubinson said:
Change the last letter to P.
The last thing we need is inflaming the situation. I would have thought the unbridled and juvenile enthusiasm ("They will satisfy your every need." ... REALLY?) was counter-productive enough.
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zeus said:
The last thing we need is inflaming the situation. I would have thought the unbridled and juvenile enthusiasm ("They will satisfy your every need." ... REALLY?) was counter-productive enough.
Zeus, I realize your taste is music is mainly classical, but I have read reviews of Steve Hoffman's Gold RBCD remasters on Amazon (and his DCC remasters) and concerning the former, some blistering reviews have been waged at the man's mastering abilities when on my system one would think they were SACDs. It's the playback equipment and audio chain unable to reproduce some very find sounding remasters which prompt posters to trash his work.
I do NOT post at his forum but read it from time to time and the man has been called (among other things) a thief and a hack.
Anyone in the public eye is open to ridicule on the net and as I posted before, even Mother Teresa received death threats.
Not that I'm putting Hoffman and Mother Teresa on the same plane.
And Speaking of planes........where IS Malaysian Flight 370?
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