Steely Dan - Katy Lied - Original Master Recording - HiRez Vinyl rip

This album is an Original Master Recording from Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs.

The album was the first after the disbandment of the original Steely Dan quintet. This album marks the first appearance of singer Michael McDonald on a Steely Dan album.

Band leaders Becker and Fagen were dissatisfied with the album's sound quality because of an equipment malfunction with the then-new dbx noise reduction system. The group has claimed that the damage was mostly repaired after consulting with the engineers at dbx, but Fagen and Becker still refused to listen to the completed album.

Trivia: The band was named Steely Dan after a prosthetic phallus in William S. Burroughs’s novel Naked Lunch.

The track "Black Friday", which was released as the first single from the album, relates the story of a crooked speculator who makes his fortune and absconds to Australia.

Becker and Fagen met at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 1967. They moved to New York City in 1969, where they worked on a movie soundtrack and toured as backing musicians for an “oldies” act.

The album cover features a picture of a katydid, a "singing" insect related to crickets and grasshoppers. This is a pun on the album's title, which is paraphrased from a line of "Doctor Wu": "Katy lies, you can see it in her eyes".




Recording Details:

• Technics Direct Drive SP25 with the 1-pound copper platter, custom walnut plinth, and upgraded bearing. The Technics SP25 Quartz-locked table offers a similar standard of excellence as the SP-10mkII professional units.

• Jelco SA750D tonearm: The SA-750D is Jelco's top-of-the-range tonearm.

• Audio Technica AT150 MLX phono cartridge: MicroLine® shaped diamond tip. Vector-Aligned cartridge for outstanding channel separation, very low distortion, and superb tracking. Gold-plated boron cantilever.

• Audio Research PH7 Phono Preamp: All-vacuum-tube audio stage with four 6922 twin triodes. Regulation of the power supply is also a vacuum tube, using three 6H30 triodes. Output coupling caps are the costly, advanced types proprietary to Audio Research.

• Tascam Uh7000 Digital Recorder: The UH-7000 is a professional-grade mic preamp/audio interface that extensively pursues low noise and high sound quality.