This record could not be missed! Even if the technique of an inside out LP, a "reverse" running record was not new, so it was for quite a lot of vinyl fans something quite surprising, which they did not know before. For the LP "Bolero, La Valse", you do not have to run your disc plate in the opposite direction - no, it is only meant that the groove from the inside of the record (where the "run-out groove") to the outside of the LP running. Reason: Especially at the Bolero you have a very quiet passage at the beginning, which builds itself up to the end dynamically and consequently requires an ever wider groove - just from the inside to the outside! The result of this technique, which Tacet already with its tube technology already already technically advanced to the top: fulminant! 5/5 Vinylfan

 

Wonderful rendition of Bolero and a dynamic finish. La Valse is equally detailed and the first time the kettle drum cut in, it made me jump. Starting the record at the "end" took a few trys the first time, but it seems to do the trick. Absolutely the best recording of the Bolero ever! Incredible! No true audiophile or Ravel fan should be without it! AV review

 

it is a disk that is absolutely worth buying, both for the execution and for the peculiarity of the burning of the lacquer.Does the system work? Yes, of course it works. Timpani, bass drum and horns can be unleashed on the outside of the disc without creating tracing problems and solving one of the crucial problems of vinyl recordings  Audio Review

 

Maurice Ravel

Boléro, La Valse

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Carlo Rizzi, conductor

play backwards!

 

Inspiring Tube Sound - 180 g

 

 Well, then, here comes the big festival now, at least for vinyl fans. Never before, we dare to predict, has Bolero sounded as good on an LP as it does here. How is that possible? It's amazingly simple: place the needle in the groove on the inside, instead of, as is customary, on the outside. And as the needle slowly wanders outwards, the ability of the record player becomes better able, along with the increased tension in the music, to scan ever higher volumes. If you don't believe it, listen to it.

 

Maurice Ravel: Boléro, La Valse - Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Carlo Rizzi

 

There are hundreds of pieces of music that can be played backwards – so-called palindromes. But nobody has ever seen a long-playing record that plays backwards. Until now that is! The present LP is Tacet’s latest production – a company that is always good for surprises regarding recording techniques. Unlike a 'normal' LP the needle is put down at the lead-out groove and moves outwards. Behind this apparent gag is nothing other than the wish to achieve the very best sound possible with the general awareness that music often begins softly and ends loudly. A great pity that this phenomenon is not taken into account when employing the usual cutting technique, for the further the pick-up arm moves towards the centre, the more information has to be stored per groove centimetre with a constant revolution speed. The result: with an increasing level of sound the high notes tend to suffer from distortion. In order to demonstrate that this undesirable effect can be compensated, the director of Tacet, Andreas Spreer, chose to put Ravel’s Boléro – one of the direst examples of dynamics – to the test. The result is 16 minutes of excitement and brilliant sound, which escalates with every millimetre that the needle progresses along the groove to its final climax.