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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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therobert
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Listen to the somewhat recently released "The Harrow and the Harvest" by Gillian Welch, and you will quickly realize that there are some great new vinyl releases out there. Holy crap does it sound fantastic. 
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slaw
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@therobert,

A BIG +1
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noromance OP
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@slaw That old dialectic! Jazz goes back, Aldous stays.
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slaw
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@noromance,

Definately something to remember.


fatboyriding
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So I have an original but slightly scratched copy and a new copy of Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues both sound remarkably similar until the last track on side two when the new copy is mistracking and sounds dreadful, if I didn’t have the original to make the comparison I would have thought my cartridge was out of alignment!! Three new pressings that I’ve bought in sealed wrappers have all been warped!! Doesn’t bode well for new vinyl although the Donald Fagen box set is superb in every way!
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