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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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cscrutinizer
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Still listening, but I haven't bought NEW vinyl in a long time. After reading the above, I would be hesitant to. 

I just watched Michael Frermer's "It's a Vinyl World After All" - a worthwhile program (DVD from Library). Michael sits in on a remastering, and takes you through the whole process to make a quality vinyl pressing. It's encouraging to know that quality IS out there. 

Look into Record Technology Inc. RTI in Camarillo Brillo
http://www.recordtech.com
winoguy17
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https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/vinyl-from-barnes-noble
Here's another reason!
bondmanp
1,789 posts
 
I haven't bought new vinyl since the 1980s.  Now, I can't afford the prices for "audiophile" pressings.  I have hundreds, probably a couple thousand record show and garage sale LPs I have yet to listen to.  Average price paid was around 2 or 3 dollars each.  Some are near mint, all are at least in good to VG condition.  A good cleaning is usually all they require. 
leemaze
329 posts
 
I tried to get into vinyl with a couple modern albums - most notably Perfume Genius "Too Bright" (album name, not descriptor of SQ) which is an incredibly dynamic album.  On cd it sparkles.  On vinyl it sounded like i was listening through a tin can.  I put the record player in the basement - didn't seem worth any time or investment. 

I guess I need to listen to old records?  I guess when I inherit my dad's vinyl collection I'll whip it back out...
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fourwnds
277 posts
 
No romance sorry to hear about your recent experiences. I also had a bad run with new vinyl that really discouraged me. Both the music quality and pressings were a real turn off. But a friend turned me on to a couple reissues and current new releases that got me excited and since I've had a very nice current run on new records (re-issues and current releases). This is in large part records bought from Barnes and Noble and Amazon. Also a somewhat recent thread about a HiFi News review of something like 50 albums to give your system a workout was a real boon turning me on tinmusic I hadn't heard of and pushing me to get a few things I'd been on the fence about. I also hit my local record store and grab the jazz reissues that are coming out and overall good some ok. One example was Joe Henderson Elements and it's very good. Anyway keep the faith is what I'm trying to say. 
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