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In Reply to: Classic Records 200 gram reissue. posted by vinylkid58 on April 18, 2007 at 11:01:20:
..are very good.i bought about 10 of them to do some testing.
i cannot speak to problems other folks report with other classic issues, but my experience with blue note jazz monos from classic is 100% positive. they often feature great music and excellent presentation -- and $30 is *alot* less than what you'd pay for an original. i've compared several side-by-side to originals and feel like if i didn't play the original immediately before or after i would not be concerned with the differences.
enjoy the music! this is a 5-star recording and jazz heads should own a copy, even if it is a reissue or CD.
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I get a kick out of people complaining about $30 records. Is a car the same price as it was in the 70's? $7.99 for an LP is long gone, and the fact that there are places on the web where you can still get a new record for $10 is amazing at the least.Sure, I'd like all reissues to be $10, but as long as I'm wishing, I sould like to buy a new Chebby for $4800. The people who moan about $30 records should check to see if GM makes ANY cars for the price they were in, say, 1970!
And believe me...for me, $30 IS a lot of money (Hell, that's almost as much as a Chinese take-out meal for 4). But back when I was in college, (for the 2nd time...or was that the thrird?), $7.99 was a lot of money, too! I just realized...$7.99 is about the price of 1 dish at the Chinese take-out down the road!
Damn...I'm hungry!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
It's not the price, it's their lack of QC.What does it say about the product when you have to pay an extra fee for someone to hand select your copy to ensure that what you receive is free of warps, scratches, smudges, fingerprints or dust ?
Best,
"hand-picked" items seems beyond absurd, but $30 is fair...but only if the LP is playable.Of course, you could always do what the record store ladies told me when I complained about a warped record back in the good ol' 70's, "Put a penny on the headshell."
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
from back when a Volkswagen cost $1,495
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
I found price stickers from $2.97 to $4.97. Why did we have to pay so much more than New Yorkers?
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
But they reveal treble detail that not even a minty first pressing could reveal. All of the titles I have compared to first pressings are actually quite good. Too bad Classic can't get their Q/C together.They offer a great product.
it's ture some blue notes and other labels (chess!) at times were cut very hot. This can be great when the record is beat up because some of those old ones play loud through noise. A lot of records that are cut hot lack real low bass but the blues notes do a decent job if it was there in the first place it seems, menaing rather it seems like a recording choice rather than a mastering one.remember, in the old days, mastering was pretty slash and burn, but there were a lot more cutting guys who knew what they were doing too.
i am speaking ONLY about classic's BLUE NOTE MONOS here, but i have 15 (i just counted) and they are all perfect.i have no expectation that they will meet or exceed the original. in the cases where i own both that and a 1st pressing, the original what i play....but i am quite pleased with the ones where i don't own a first pressing.
also, clean & quiet 1st or 2nd pressings are beyond the means of many, so the comparison is not really fair. we rarely expect a $30 anything to outperform a $300 whatever.... :)
Where there's smoke, there's fire. However, my own experience is similar to yours.
Thanks for the heads up, yes $30 is cheap compared to an original, if you're lucky enough to find one.
1/30th!!!
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
That doesn't surprise me, judging from some of the recent auction postings of BN originals.
One of the local online vendors has a copy, think I'll snag it.
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