Whitney Houston – Whitney Houston

One of the highest-selling debuts of all time by Newark's Finest! The voice. RIP Whitney Houston. There'll never be a strong potent voice like hers in that lifetime

My main issue with this pressing is that Track 1, Side 1 , You Give Good Love sounds very wonky like it's mastered from a damaged master tape. Seems to slow down & speed up. Anyone else have this issue ?

If you don't have a microline/shibata cartridge, don't even think about this. The inner groove distortion is completely overpowering on an elliptical.

Nice sound given its age. Nice and dynamic and balanced. Some pops and crackles here and there but given how bad the modern pressings are of this classic I’m ok with it.

This is impressive. Sounds so much better than the original. So much details to hear. Whitney’s vocals really stands out. Was in two minds whether to get this until I heard Mike from In Groove comment about it. Money well spent.

I'm not hearing a huge improvement on the original cd (or subsequent) cd pressings. A well-produced/mixed album for sure, but this MFSL pressing seems to be lacking a bit of low end. (Not the norm for MFSL)

Bad bad copy
Lot of surface noise for a new disc, voices are too loud, muddy, almost unlistenable…
Such a shame for such an iconic album

available new from MFSL for $59.99 plus $9.99 shipping in the US fyi

Overall, I am quite happy with this pressing. It is very quiet although not totally silent, with just a few light pops in between tracks. None of that gets in the way of the music though. When I first put the needle down I was a bit disappointed, in that the first two tracks had a somewhat thick congested and flat sound to them. From there the sound improved and by and large the rest of it sounds clear, open and really quite good, although cannot be considered an audiophile recording. The big hits are the best sounding tracks and as someone has said here, a few different producers were involved, which does mean there is a clear variation between the sound of tracks as you listen. I had no igd issues and I think that is because I have a microline stylus which is very carefully set up. Whitney’s voice sometimes sounds a bit piercing, but I would not consider that distortion, just how it was recorded.

This is a very poorly recorded / mixed album. What saves it, is the incredible songwriting. The original album was very brittle at the top-end, and this remaster smooths out a lot of the rough spots. The main downside was that there were way too many producers on this album, and the volume varies track to track, due to productions styles. Still, it is definitely one of the greatest debut albums of all-time.