@bimmerlover yep IMPEX is very good. Small selection but you can find excellent albums there. Kevin Gray’s work as well on some albums.
Not likeing remasters - Are origingal 90's Vinyls worth it?
I am new the vinyl world and I was going to start collecitng more of the bands where I liked the whole album. Most of the music I listen to is from the 90’s. There has been a lot of remastered albums released on vinyl (The Verve, Dinosaur Jr, Electronic (band), Cocteau Twins, etc) in the last 15 years. But everything I listen to of the remasters (on streaming or cd).... I find things I do not like about them. Ethier they were re-recorded with to much volume or something else that just keeps me from enjoying the music like I did the original.
But then that leads me down another road... getting the original vinyls. I am finding these to go anywhere from $100 to $300 which is a lot of money for me. Then I read back in the 1990s cds were the main media. The vinyl counterparts put out in the 90s did not have the same effort or sound engineering put into them to make them sound as good. Is that true?
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What @muveling has said. As with everything it’s hit and miss. Plenty of very good sounding pressings to be found of AIC, Nirvana, PJ, Pumpkins. As to Dinosaur Jr, I have a couple of the Cherry Red reissues in both CD and vinyl and tonight I did a direct compare Of Hand It Over. I preferred the CD. The vinyl was veiled and had some digital glare. A shame because the packaging is top notch. High quality paper stock, lots of pics, liner notes, colored vinyl. So that one’s a miss but my 2006 vinyl reissue of Green Mind is a home run. |
@z32kerber MoFi is solid. I have a bunch. All great. Don’t conflate digitally remastered with MoFi’s original tape copied to DSD256 copied to lathe. Or their OneStep process. Comparing that with the mainstream digitally remastered drek is like comparing 21 year old macallan with johnny walker red. |
Mulveling is correct when he says run time per side is critical - that's why best of albums with 13 or 14 and occasionally more tracks are best avoided. Once that's ticked off I look at the record label, studios and mastering engineer, one of the things I am least concerned about is the weight of the vinyl or whether it's half speed. If you want to put this to the test try Amy Winehouse's back to black 180gram half speed LP. To my ears it's awful and I like Amy a lot |
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