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Which Steely Dan Aja lp to buy?

Maybe some vinyl experts can offer some advice here. I was getting ready to pre-order the Steely Dan Aja Universal Limited Edition 200g Japanese Import, but before I got around to it, I now see a new 180g Cisco version being pre-sold. The latter is "Remastered and Cut by Kevin Gray from the Original Analog Master Tapes".

Any thoughts / comments on which will version will likely be the best? Or is it a toss up?

Thanks. John.
johnax
musicslug
403 posts
 
G_m_c has a good point: this is one LP where the original pressing, readily available, can sound great. I'll be curious to hear side-by-side comparison reports when the reissues come out.
hdm
971 posts
 
Yup, the original ABC. They're everywhere cheap. In the dollar bins at used record stores (or certainly very reasonably priced), record shows or the thrifts. Chances are you can buy 10 of them for the price of the re-issue and out of the 10 you'll be bound to get a couple of decent copies that probably sound better than the re-issue.

I can see buying re-issues if there is difficulty in obtaining a clean copy of the original. That's not the case with AJA.
johnax OP
16 posts
 
Thanks for the input, seems unanimous for the original ABC (which I already have, albiet not a very clean copy). Somebody must be buying these re-issues?
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
The original ABC yellow label is the ticket.

MOFI version sucks.
tvad
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My father in law recently gave me a box of 15-20 LPs that had been in his garage. Most were my wife's from the 70s and 80s.

The gem in the box was a pristine original ABC yellow label copy of "Aja"!

Wow, what a great sounding LP, and it shows little evidence of play, unlike most of the other LPs that were all pretty scratchy.
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