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?
@dman777 Yes. The ’90s were not a particularly good decade for lp recordings (CD had firmly supplanted vinyl), although Bruce Springsteen’s original releaseThe Ghost of Tom Joad sounded pretty fantastic when listening to a Versa Dynamics 2.3 turntable and a VAC Renaissance 70/70 SET integrated. The realism was quite good. Otherwise, I’m sure others can suggest records from that decade. But a great many of those will be reissues, not original recordings. |
The recent mtv unplugged releases are very good. 10000 Maniacs, Cranberries. All the Metallica 90’s pressings are great, but they are very expensive. The Fugees original, Suzanne Vega, Stadium Arcadian, Blood Sugar Sex Magic (Any RHCP albums, I think they were audiophiles), Massive Attack- Mezzanine, Beastie Boys… |
@nitewulf Great callouts - MTV unplugged vinyl hasn’t let me down yet. The Alice in Chains and Nirvana are required. RHCP’s BSSM (reissue), "One Hot Minute", and "I’m Beside You" are all absolutely phenomenal on vinyl. I have an OG press of Mother’s Milk that is far less impressive, unfortunately. Metallica’s Black album 2008 reissue 45 RPM boxset is, bar none, the finest sounding heavy metal album I’ve ever heard on vinyl - it beats my OG 90s copy, which is also very very good. OG copies of "Load" and "Reload" are fantastic. Never been super happy with any press of "Justice for all Yet" - too bad as that’s my favorite. og press of "Master of Puppets" is decent. "Ride the Lightning" OG is excellent; good luck finding a clean copy. Ooops those are 80s! Haven’t tried the newer reissues. Warrant "Cherry Pie" OG vinyl is just stupid good sounding, and loads of fun. I also have some decent reissues of Faith no More - not as spectacular as the mentions above, but quite serviceable. |
