Heaver grade vinyl vs Standard

In very few cases will a 180 gm, 200 gm reissue ever come close to the sound of a good original pressing. It's even more unusual to beat the original reguardless of thickness. Luckily, many times a good original can be had for 3-5 dollars verses 30-50. You just have to find them and clean them up. Whatever you may think of Tom Port, his Better Records site has opened my eyes to this. Also, Port reccomends reissues on his site that he feels do sound great and that is a very good way to steer clear of expensive disappointments when you do buy heavy vinyl reissues. Norah Jones "Come Away with Me", CSN's 1st, Supertramp "Crime of the Century", Eric Clapton "Unplugged", Joe Cocker "A Little Help From My Friends", Bob Marley "Natty Dread", Nirvana "Never Mind", Miles Davis "Kind of Blue", Sundazed "Freewheelin Bob Dylan" and "Time They Are A Changin" are a few examples of heavy vinyl reissues Port recommends and I have yet to disagree with him. This has been a great help because many reissues are really not that good(Classic's "Aqualung" Cisco's "Aja")

I would remind everyone that new reissues on 180 or 200 gm vinyl being worse than originals is the general rule, it's not an absolute one. There are great sounding reissues by Classic, Speaker's Corner, Sundazed, Simply Vinyl and even MOFI. In some cases these are 90% as good to just as good as the original which can be extremely hard to find in good condition. This demonstrates that these companies can make a good disc, they just usually don't. I find this more frustrating than if they all just uniformly were bad. That's why a source of information about which titles actually turned out good is helpful. I mentioned the Better Records site already. Maybe a thread on great sounding new vinyl would help those interested steer clear off all the duds out there.