Ive had the odd one with that. It's a press fault but replacing it should solve it. Poor checking by manufacturer. They usually play but as u say you sometimes hear it
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Ive had the odd one with that. It's a press fault but replacing it should solve it. Poor checking by manufacturer. They usually play but as u say you sometimes hear it
Had one turn up and it looked like someone had been at it with a hammer, sent it back and another arrived much the same. Got a refund.
I'm currently subscribing to the DeAgostini jazz set in an effort to improve my jazz education. These are 180g reissues of pretty decent quality.
So far (40 or so albums in, about halfway) I've had to return three for pressing faults though on one occasion I gave up asking for a decent copy after getting three duff copies of the same record.
There may well be a few more bad pressings that I haven't picked up, as a modest percentage aren't to my taste at all, so I haven't necessarily got to the end of them (free jazz on the whole I just can't abide, and I'm not the biggest fan of some big band stuff, despite having played bass in a big band in my youth).
On the whole this isn't far off the sort of failure rate I remember when buying records back in 70s and 80s - though I always had/have a lot more issues with classical records than with rock/blues/jazz as in general the dynamic range required is greater and there are usually more quiet bits for noise or other damage to intrude into.
ECM do a fantastic job of mastering and cutting their new titles for vinyl release. So my answer to the original post would be some are utterly fantastic and some are meh! I also purchased a few new release jazz things and they honestly feel like the vinyl is an afterthought to tick that box...
New vinyl releases are relatively very expensive. I was sort of interested in checking the new Beck
Lp on vinyl, but apart from the material being too upbeat pop, prefer him depressed, it's so flipping expensive!!
£27 is way past my station for a new release. I think the record companies are taking the piss as they do limited runs and know in a year they will be all over discogs for ££.
On the other end of the spectrum premium new vinyl reissues can be possibly the best things I've ever heard!
The Bill Evans trio Sunday night at the village vanguard is in this bracket.
Unfortunately these sort of titles sell out quickly and then command stupid prices.
My point is they can be and should be great..it's lazy if they are not.
http://i.imgur.com/V2frfl4.jpg
Btw I have purchased premium £50+ MFSL sealed records and Music Matters sealed titles
And on numerous occasions have had pressing faults!
And as Tom said the replacement copy also had faults. So it can be a lottery
In the reggae genre represses seem to have improved considerably, especially since the Japanese have gotten involved.
There is a Japanese company called Dub Store Records who are reissuing long out of print stuff using the original masters. The sound quality is fantastic.
There is also a few other labels such as Diggikiller in NY that have followed suit and again their vinyl is amazing and the cost to buy the originals of these would be hefty.
Finally, even Music on Vinyl who have reissued some of the Trojan catalogue have done a good job and as I have the originals I have been able to compare them and they're very good.
A label called Yep Roc in the states has started to reissue some of the Studio One stuff and again this is good but I've found that some of their pressings have faults including warps and the odd click.
I'd still rather buy originals to complete my collection but the prices are a complete joke these days and luckily I only have few gaps which some of these reissues have filled....
I shall deal with the main thrust later. I can't get past how d&b apparently ended in '04 at the moment.