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Done buying new vinyl

Just bought a few albums recommended by a mag. Party by Aldous Harding and Beautiful Jazz by Christian Jacobs. The first has that slight buzzing distortion and dirty noise in one channel for the entire recording. The second has a two small clicks every revolution thru most of a side. The recording quality of the first varies from song to song. From very good to fair. But mostly dull with processing. The second is an AAA recording and is fair at best. Recorded too low and too muffled with flattened soundstage and dynamics. I have hundreds of 60s jazz and blues records that trounce these.
Should I send them back to Amazon?

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oregonpapa
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I have thousands of LP's from the 50's & 60's ... mostly jazz and classical. One thing I've noticed is that when tape hiss is present the highs are extended. On newly pressed records, some engineers "de-noise" the reissue to get rid of the tape hiss. Get rid of the tape hiss and the highs are eliminated as well. Therefore the " muffling" of the sound. Typical of this are the Mosaic reissues. I have several where I also have originals to compare them with. No contest ... the original wins in SQ every time. 

Frank
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oregonpapa
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Most of the jazz reissues from Fantasy are really good reissues, especially the one they did of the Contemporary recordings. Here's some examples of outstanding reissues:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HAROLD-LAND-In-The-Land-Of-Jazz-LP-on-Contemporary-ojc/332537985249?hash=it...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HAROLD-LAND-The-Fox-LP-on-Contemporary-ojc/332537986584?hash=item4d6ccefe18...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cannonball-Adderley-Know-What-I-Mean-Vinyl-New/361806507476?epid=112482247&...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Music-of-BOB-COOPER-Frank-Rosolino-Mel-Lewis-Victor-Feldman-Lou-Levy-LP/362...

Frank


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