New Vinyl

Having bought Carole Kings Tapestry on 180gm and found there were audible scratches on both sides I returned this to the seller. The second one arrived and one side was fine but the other has one enormous scuff and across the first three tracks together with 2 other scuff/scratches. Not good for new vinyl from a reputable source.

As they were out of stock and to avoid return costs they said keep it.

I looked to reorder on line but had the choice - same again from elsewhere? I noticed some original master pressings and also double 45 pressing.

In the end I opted for the 45rpm pressing from original analogue tapes I believe it says.

First off the pressing was great and silent.



Sound? It was certainly superior dynamics clarity, width, depth, naturalness.

Was it worth the extra, almost certainly not in this case as I have concluded the underlying recording as suspected is pretty low fi, whilst vocals far better, they remained lacking clarity and bit hard at times and rolled off at top end. Maybe I should try another EQ on my Accession.

Would like to try a well recorded 45 albkum, just a case of which one!

My record (pun intended) with new vinyl has good of late, but that changed at Christmas.

I bought the Led Zeppelin at the BBC set, and record 2 of the set was dished.
It went back.

Pink Floyd's last, "The Endless River" had a pressing fault on side 1 of the 1st disc that was due to a piece of crud pressed into the groove.
Another gripe with this album is that it's a double LP set, with a single LP's worth of material. Why?
It too went back.

Alison Krauss & Unions Station's "Paper Airplane" was noticably warped.
I just put it back in its sleeve and packed it up for return shipping - it didn't even make it onto the TT platter.

Thankfully all the above were bought from the online company with the name of a South American River, and all returns were pre paid.

Elbow's vinyl is always 45rpm.

check out the band. Half Japanese. Why Not, on Fire Records