The trouble is, apart from not knowing your listening preferences, that the quality of the reissues varies and I used to know a lot of people, who preferred the originals to all the different reissues. Prices of the old Shaded Dogs or Mercuries have dropped considerably and sometimes you can even strike lucky on Ebay and find a decent copy. One thing seems certain to my experience at least, that it is impossible here to generalize. I used to take the risk and just bought, be it CRs, the old doggies or the reissues, kept the ones I preferred and tried to sell or swap the ones I didn't like.
Classical vinyl - Good sources of info and talk
I've gotten very interested in classical vinyl in recent months, both new and second-hand. To me, it's generally considerably more pleasant to listen to than CDs. But I've not found a good source for information about it. For example, I'd like to figure out the differences between the Classic Records 180 gm and 200 gm RCA reissues, but I haven't found a good source for information. What recommendations do similarly inclined listeners have? (Audiogon is okay, but there just aren't that many posts on the subject.)
Thanks much
Thanks much
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Eweedhome, there is a lot of good information in the Audiogon archives about classical music on vinyl. A lot of folks here have a lot of experience and are willing to share their experience if you can pose some fairly specific questions. Here's a link to an earlier thread that in turn contains lots of links to threads that may be of interest: List of Classical Music threads on Audiogon . |
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