Noobie. Vinyl reissues. Am I expecting too much?


I'm a thrift shop/garage sale/flea market bottom feeder. Recently got involved with older then new reissues. First 45 album turned out to have manufacturing defects do returned it (MFSL Barber). Traded it for an ORG Diana Krall album (33) and a Cannonball Adderly 45 from AP.

The Diana Krall album has crackles on one side so I think it's going back too. The AP was great - after I cleaned it (quite oily fingerprint covered). I have had a number of OJC albums that are trouble free.

I guess my question is this - as I move up the food chain, should I expect audio improvement combined with manufacturing/packing issues? Am I expecting too much or just bad luck?
trehane
Sorry to be trite, but this subject has been beaten to death on the forums here. Do a search and read all of the info.

I, myself, have had tremendous success with all the new reissues and I buy most of them. Others will claim the opposite...
If your bottom feeding as you say then you get what you pay for. People mostly part with less than perfect pressings.let them become somebody else's headache.
I stay away from Blue Note re issues,they do not imo sound all that great and the quality leaves alot to be desired. Most of your high end pressings are of 180 or 200 gram pressings which means if you are not compensating for vinyl thickness and adjusting your tonearm VTA your throwing your money away.
I remember a poster posting how horrible the MCA Audiophile pressing of Who's Next was awful,sounded like Daltry was in another room when the vocal recordings were done. I love this paticular pressing and told him to adjust the VTA and next thing ya know he's like saying Daltry is front and center and in his face now and he sounds like he's leading the band.
Sundazed is a place I buy alot from,they are priced between the re issues an audiophile pressing and feel they are good quality for the money.They are remastered using Tube equipment and the packaging is pretty good.
I have had mixed blessings myself. I also found later pressings to sound comparable to the early ones with better vinyl composition. Many later sound cleaner and make a rather enjoyable listening experience on the cheap.
why not just face the issue at hand. We are dealing with vinyl and if you don't like noise such as clicks,ticks and pops then listen to CD.I'm amazed at all that are looking for perfectly pressed quiet pressings.Science can't produce a perfect LP unless we replace the tonearm and cartridge with something else. Laser players have there own set of problems with LP's needing to be kept almost hygienically clean.So get used to it,or get out of vinyl play...there's noise its mechanical and that's that.