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I was interested in purchasing, as they have been discounted lately... but, maybe they are discounted for a reason?
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I was very, very, very unhappy with the sound of Rhino Vinyl 180-Gram LPs, I stick with the real audiophile labels.The major labels still don't know how to get LPs to sound right, they still roll-off the bass, roll-off the treble, smash the image, run them threw Digital processors and totally muck up the sound.
If you want to hear what is on the master tape wait for Analogue Productions, Speaker's Corner, Classic Records, Cisco or MFSL to release them.
I'm working on an article on the quest for that 1% of great sounding LPs. Yes folks they are out there!
As far as the major labels are concerned I am willing to spend up to $1.00 for a major label LP if and only if it is not available from a real audiophile company, but $20.00 no way! I get the real audiophile LPs not the phony audiophile LPs dished up by the major labels.
Besides the majors I also avoid Simply Vinyl, Get Back and Castle. These kind of LPs give LPs a bad name!
"Music is love"
Teresa
I heard bad things about the earlier Rhinos, but the recent stuff, mostly branded as Warners, Nonesuch, Reprise, etc has been more than satisfactory - in fact, to my ears "Blue" and "Highway Companion" outstrip some of the stuff I've gotten from Classic. BTW, "Blue" has a Rhino sticker on it, though the record label itself is the old tan Reprise. I think WEA is just using it as the umbrella logo for its reissues, as opposed to new releases (they do the same with some, but not all, orf their CD reissues.)
As is the Simply Vinyl Boz Scaggs "Silk Degrees."
Henry
The Hoffman/Gray BLUE is perfect.The more expensive of the two HOTEL CALIFORNIAs was perfectly digital sounding. A disssssssssssssssssgrace.
No defects on any of my Warner Bros. reissues.
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Al G
Born To Tinker!
I have Petty "Highway Companion," RHCP "Stadium Arcadium" (the lower-priced edition), Knopfler/Harris "All the Roadrunning," J. Mitchell "Blue," and a few others. They are consistently good - quiet surfaces, clear and rich mastering, very musical (that is, you find yourself being pulled in by the music, not the sonics, as good as the latter are).I've seen the discounting here and there too. Perhaps they overestimated the market? They're aren't too many of us vinyl buyers out there, especially at premium prices (it only seems that way on VA, since we congregate here.) A specialist like Speakers Corner or Classic is set up to serve a niche market, and writes its budgets and business plans to keep things in print and on hand until they sell out. A mass marketer like WEA is designed to move product through the pipeline quickly - if it doesn't sell within a certain time frame, it's cleared out.
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