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Poco "Legend" half-speed MFSL vinyl

Hi All!
Just bought a used Poco "Legend" half-speed master MFSL vinyl & I bought it with great anticipation. This is an original MFSL (I checked it) & it is cut by the venerable Stan Ricker himself on JVC Japanese vinyl. I cleaned it in my VPI 16.5 machine & played it yesterday. The LP is really clean & I hear no groove damage at all.
However, I find that the music is rather bass heavy i.e. I feel that there is too much bass in all the tracks. In many tracks I feel that the lead singer's voice has been pushed back & the bass brought forward! Some of the tracks on this LP are on the CD I own (Poco's greatest hits) & I hate to say this but I prefer those tracks on the CD 'cuz the presentation is more balanced!! By the time I was done with the LP my stomach wasn't feeling that good! I have never felt this way with any of my other LPs even with the Blues vinyl that I own. This is very disappointing to me & I'm too embarressed to 'fess up how much I paid for this LP!

Does anyone out there have this same MFSL half-speed master? If so, do you feel the same way about it? I just wondering whether my ears are deceiving me or whether my system needs an adjustment? TIA
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4yanx
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I, too, largely prefer my original pressing "Legend" to the MFSL that I later sold. In general, I find that MFSL LP's do not measure up to first pressings of the same LP, but there are exceptions (Little Feat's "Waiting for Columbus among them). I have found some of the MFSL to be heavy on the low end, but also some are "tizzy" and some lack dynamics.

If you like Poco, try "Indian Summer", "Rose of Cimarron", "Crazy Eyes", and "Poco - Seven".
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