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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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piramis
32 posts
 
So are the new records made in China?
nesto719
77 posts
 
So Mabey its not my table that’s horrible . I even went and bought a new phono stage . Some new vinyl that I have been buying is downright horrible . Metallica justice for all album bought at best buy can t even hear the voices or drums . Sounds like a tin can . Mabey I won’t sell my rig 
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mschott
129 posts
 
Some new vinyl may be crap but there is plenty of really good remastered vinyl. I'm very happy with all the vinyl I've bought from MoFi. I have a Bobby Darin album. Tony Bennett, Bill Withers which is particularly good and if you can find the 45 rpm version of Donald Fagen's Nightfly. it's spectacular. Some of these are very pricey, especially the 180 gram 45 rpm remasters but they sound amazing.
vinylnut63
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Nothing is perfect. So sit back and enjoy the music. It seems that to many people are looking for problems. Back when we were younger we had fun listening to "our" music. But now there are so many people, companies trying to sell us the next best thing to clean our LP's. If we don't use a cabinet of cleaning items our music will not sound good. I agree with some of the ways of cleaning only because of testing myself.
 Just enjoy the music.
Ron
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soundsrealaudio
756 posts
 
A question or all of you. What is your favorite cartridge and what phono stage are you using??????
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