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Vinyl reissue labels to avoid?

There is a wealth of music being reissued on vinyl, but not all labels are equal.

There are some excellent vinyl reissue labels that use original anaolg sources and produce very good lps such as Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner Records, RhinOvinyl, Classic Records, Impulse!, Sundazed, etc.

Then there are some dubious EU labels that use cds as "remastered" sources from 50+ yr old recordings due to copyright loopholes (Doxy and WaxTime come to mind). I don't want 180g cds!

Some labels I now avoid:
WaxTime
DOXY
Not Now Music
Jazz Wax Records
Scorpio

Who should we be avoiding, and who should we be buying? I am only interested in 33rpm lps, which we flip as they were meant to (as opposed to the 45rpm reissues which may sound good but take us from sides A&B to 4 unnaturally truncated sides).

For 33rpm reissues, who are the good, the bad, and the ugly?

toronto416

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toronto416 OP
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I have a few recent Music on Vinyl 180g jazz reissues which are quite decent, and according to their website, they use analogue masters:

"As for our sources; We are provided with the best possible (analogue) masters available. On top of that, our sound engineer has over 35 years of experience in cutting and mastering records for (major) labels."

Does anyone else have more experience with them?
toronto416 OP
133 posts
 
"Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson" sounds wonderful on CD, and the CD sourced Jazz Wax reissue probably also sounds good despite the compressed source material.
This same album was reissued by Speakers Corner, with analogue remastering, and it sounds stunning. It is still currently available.
If you buy it, it would be interesting to hear your impressions of how the Speakers Corner reissue compares to Jazz Wax. You might be pleasantly surprised.
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