Impex Records


Any yays or nays with regards to Impex Records albums?

I know that they’ve been around for 10+ years but I have never purchased any of their LP’s.

Are they worth the $ and how much of a difference is there between their LP’s and for lack of a better description, stock LP’s?

bahston

Impex is a good recording company, started from Cisco . I own one step as well. CD or vynil I have them.I just watch on YouTube how they do their reissues.Abby Fonn of Impex is truly audiophile. I want to see her at axpona in less than two weeks.

I listened to the Impex one step, Getz/Gilberto, then purchased the Impex Hybrid SACD.  Later, I realized I preferred the sound of my original MOFI disc over the Hybrid SACD.

Just ordered Duke Ellington and Miles Davis after hearing these Impex pressings on a friend’s rig.  SQ is very good and pressing is perfectly flat.  Looking forward to adding them to my collection.  As far as the price of LPs today when you factor in inflation the LPs that we paid $5/8 for back in the 60s/70s are right where they should be at $35/45 in today’s $. I’m good with that, although I do shop around:)
Enjoy the music. 

I’ve ordered The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Time Further Out” IMPEX vinyl record which is now en route from Elusive Disc. 

I was listening to IMPEX 45rpm Cafe Blue again over the weekend. Got a new phono stage and was going thru my reference vinyl. Great sound quality there. Clique sucks though and nothing can remedy that. Probably just bad noisy pressing. 
I’ll play PB Nightclub 45rpm later. That’s a really well recorded album. 
 

Was going thru their selection and can’t seem to find much that I would like to own. 
 

Got the Brubeck vinyl. Terrific album by the way. It was in my favorites on streaming for quiet some time so I was excited about it. 

Recording is great. Excellent details, overall really good. 
Side A is perfect. Side B, just like on my PB Clique, last track is noisy and has a few pops. I’m going to try and exchange it but with IMPEX I’m afraid the replacement could be worse. 
 

Pressing quality with IMPEX vinyl seems to be a crapshoot. And that’s disappointing.