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Vinyl Back in Black Review

How do the different recordings sound and the quality of the pressing.
This is not about if the original sounds better than the reissue recording, but if it is worth purchasing them on there own merit.
I myself purchase Supertramp - Breakfast in America. To me it sounds muddy and not as clear and crisp as I think a reissue should.
Anyone else listen to these releases.
hevac1
hevac1 OP
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Mofimadness
Thanks for your list.

Rnm4
Thanks for your input. By the way as far as Layla and Other Love Songs go's the only desent recording of it is the SuperDisk release. I have a UK, JP and US releases and the SuperDisk beats them all. The new Japanese release of Disreli Gears is good. I think the origial tapes were not that well produced for either of those releases.

Bongofury

The problem with finding older rock album is most of them were not taken care for bunch of differant reasons.
This thread is to try to weed out the desent reissues from the bad. There are so many labels coming out with the same recordings it would be nice to learn which ones are better.
I am sorry to say that the people who purchased the bad one and good one can help others.

Hdm
Thanks for the info about the Hoffman site and your opinion of Axis.
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Hdm
I looked at the thread on the www.stevehoffman.tv site . It's full of a lot of good info, mostly bad very little good about these releases.
Thanks
pops
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Reissues suck, there is nothing like the original pressing in my opinion. My best albums were pressed in the late 60's, 70's, and very early 80's.
hevac1 OP
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Pops,
As I said at the start of this thread . This question has NOTHING to do with origial pressings only the sound quality of the reissue in question, not is the orininal release best. I do not agree with you either, not all reissues suck and some are better than the original pressing. You think the original channeled stereo where all music is on the left and vocals on the right or the other way around is the way stereo should be done. They sound like crap to me and I would rather listen to them in mono mode. Purchase the Geoge Martins Beatles LOVE album, thats how they should have been done in the 60's.
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uncbare
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I bought the Roxy Music (self-titled) Back in Black and I have never been more disappointed with a record purchase (well, OK, the Amy Winehouse records but that was cheap). It's unlistenable. I've never heard the original pressing so I have no idea if it's just a bad recording (too much overdubbing?) or a really bad pressing.

Anyone have experience with it?

It has made me shy away from the other titles, some of which I really wanted to buy.
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