My own experience is that the carefully selected reissues I’ve been buying generally sound superb, and that’s in comparison with the few duplicates in my preexisting collection and the used records I’ve bought. I won’t buy any reissues that aren’t represented as all analogue, and I’m generally buying trusted sources like Analogue Productions, Blue Note and then occasional Rounder.
Regarding Chad, he used to answer the phone back in the pre-Internet days. The last time I spoke with him was after I’d bought the AP Miles Davis Sketches of Spain. I’d returned two copies because of spindle holes that were too small to go over my spindle, and called to return the third. Chad picked up, we talked about it and he told me to take a round file and enlarge the hole little by little, and said if that didn’t work out to return that one and he’d find one with a usable hole. Great guy. And a great sounding record that I play often.
