I agree Bob, some members reports can be unreliable. You will probably remember the Paul Weller Fat Pop for example.
I expect you or your system is more tolerant of noisy pressings or the degree of. I hope The Capitol Sessions on vinyl works for you it’s a lovely session and sounds great on stream which is how I’ve been enjoying it to date. Will be interested to hear how it goes for you and which variant you have. I think there are at least 3, black or red and green EU and a green marbled US one
@CliveB as Bob has already mentioned you can take advantage of a no quibble return and try it for yourself which would be my recommendation. Juno records have great customer service for example, I personally prefer for ethical reasons to avoid monoliths like Amazon.
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I find the sound samples on Juno very useful. I’ve been a customer for as long as my memory serves and through experience I have found the samples albeit “lofi” very good for sniffing out suspect pressings.
Just gave the Capitol Sessions a spin and considering it’s provenance it’s excellent well pressed too.
Well worth the £23 I paid for it but of course that’s on my system yours could be much more revealing. I see you have an LP12 which I’m sure because I’ve had a couple may well sound different to my P8.
Thanks, Bob. I listened to it on Apple Music and its a great performance, so I will have to decide between vinyl and CD - I would certainly go for the black vinyl.
I would certainly like to see the film but I rarely buy music DVD/BluRays as I hardly ever watch them more than once. Music sounds so much better on the stereo system!
The Beatles - A Hard Days Night in mono. Ernest J. Day sleeve, Matrix / Runout (A-side runout stamped: XEX 481 - 3N). Managed to find a rather nice example after sifting through a lot of the mediocrity on ebay. Record is NM, original inner & outer LP sleeve is EX. Lovely original examples still exist, but they do take some finding. I wonder if the owner used the “EMITEX” Cleaning Material”.
When british label Twisted Records recently announced the reissues of Shpongles 3 first albums in vinyl, I felt obligate to pre order “Tales of the inexpressible”, their second debut album from 2001, a milestone in electronic music from that era, suppose to be released in march 22.
And also a current electronic compilation, first vinyl release from french production label “Cercle” the album “Coton” is on the way.
Happy new 2022 !
Kate Bush remastered III - as with ! & !! the quality of the remastering is exception - music speaks for it’s self 3 albums Directors Cut, Ariel 50 words of Snow
I remember those cleaning cloths in a plastic, similar to a tobacco, pouch. Iirc it was impregnated with something called callotherm but my memory is likely faulty
(I did a search out of curiosity and you can still get similar cloths but I wouldnt)
I have a Jazz In Britain reissue replica LP that amusingly recommends Jibtex (geddit)
Interestingly I also have an original 1st press Mono of WithThe Beatles, the vinyl visually looks knackered and covered in scratches but plays like mint, silent and not a single tick, pop, seriously unbelievable!
Interesting detail on the Emitex cloth. I do wonder how many were sold with records back in the day! I do seem to recall my parents having something similar to what you describe, especially the storage pouch. I’ll do a quick search later.
Interesting that your well loved copy of With The Beatles plays so beautifully, despite its age related marks. Always really pleasing when you get a copy like that. Coincidentally, and before I saw your post, I picked up a mono copy of With The Beatles today. It was lying unloved in the bargain bin, marked down to £12.50. Very dirty and lots of scratches, a worn cover too and no original inner sleeve - a thoroughly unloved example! Bought mainly as a test disc just to see if it will come good after a few passes on the RCM. Will report back tomorrow
Well, I think you could be right. I (sort of) got lucky. The With The Beatles album looked atrocious, but it has come up really well after three passes on the RCM. There is some crackle here and there and a light swooshing noise on side 1 in-between tracks that is audible on quieter passages, which I think could be groove wear. The big scratches I was worried about are completely inaudible though, which is just bizarre. Now a decent playable record, where before cleaning I’d have graded it Poor and that was being generous, it now comes up to VG. I’ll get some snaps up tomorrow all being well.
