Boulevard

The bass is literally capable of dropping animals at 20 paces! The sound on this recording is WOW, deep, precise, controlled balanced. The drums have real presence without dominating. The shear clarity of the recording draws the listener in. The music? Well try it you may be surprised if your system is good enough.I have not set out to write reviews of the music content as “beauty is in the ears of the listener”. These reviews are about the quality (or not) of the recorded sound. To read about how the reviews are done please see my profile.• Clarity – Superb• Channel separation - excellent• Channel balance – excellent, instruments beautifully placed underpinned by well defined bass beats• Sound Stage – outstanding a marvellous mix, broad, detailed and so wide. A sound-stage to revel in• Distortion – non audible• Compression – non audible, tremendous highs and lows combined with absolute clarity• Atmosphere – little is more, spacious, open, transparent revealing• Bass – low frequencies – slamming, literally capable of dropping animals at 20 paces! Smooth detailed insistent, precise. Quite simply a wow!• Treble – high frequencies – beautifully balanced clear and detailed. Not shrill or tiring• Vocals – rich mature, tonal, gravelly, definitely interestingAs a general rule of thumb recordings from the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s are nearly always better on the original vinyl. Remasters often fail to please as it’s just not possible to make a silk purse from a sows ear, i.e. the original recording lacks the necessary detail to be processed digitally and show an audible improvement. Indeed such processing can make the sound worse.Modern recordings which have been processed digitally from start to finish can be as good as vinyl. CD’s are often unfairly criticised for being poor quality. This is not the case, it is the original recording or the process which is to blame. Modern “remasters” can both enhance and degrade a recording. The statement GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) is the limiting factor. Ignore this at your cost.

Love this album - not "quite" ("" = italics!) as well produced at my other one of his (though still high quality), but it has a great vibe exactly because of that on one or two of the tracks. Buy it if you've heard anything from it and you like it - you won't regret I'm sure.

Have had Tourist CD since we first heard it on a beach holiday in Turkey, Decided to buy Boulevard and like it as much if not more than Tourist. Great for background sound for evening BBQ parties or just chilling out. Great.

My favourite St Germain album and agree with most of the reviews on Amazon. My only reservation is the very prominent basscontent which for me is a little too prominent. As I do most of my listening in the evening or late evening, I am aware that this mightbe annoying for my neighbours. Overall though I like this album, and the bass issue might be less of a problem for other people, sorecommended with reservations.

Love this album! have always enjoyed Tourist so decided to dig further, and plan to dig further on Ludovic Navarre who writes under other aliases. Only sorry there aren't more albums.

Nice record.

CD perfect .Fast efficient service thoroughly recommend.

just recently got into St Germain so its always good when you easily get hold of the back catalogue at a low low price.