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Hey folks. What are some of the best-sounding records in your collection? Perhaps it’s a particular pressing of a favorite album or just a record where you think the production is top-notch.
Let’s get a discussion going; it may inspire some other members to pick up their own copy or discover something new!
I have a handful of Beck albums in my (relatively modest) collection and all sound amazing.
Of particular note are “Morning Phase” and the sublime (double vinyl) “Sea Change”.
For those not familiar with these releases, they are both a lot quieter than other Beck albums, with largely acoustic and orchestral content, accompanied by beautiful, heartachingly-personal lyrics.
They are later pressings, flat as a pancake and utterly devoid of a single pop or crackle throughout their entire length – the quality has to be heard to be believed.
The fact they came housed in lined paper inners has kept them that way with virtually no static.
I suspect this quality is something Mr Hansen personally insisted upon and it’s a terrific shame that this standard isn’t replicated across the the industry.I don’t have many LPs in my collection yet. I have two box sets and approximately fifty albums, but my Bowie reissues sound fantastic, considering they aren’t special audiophile pressings. If I am correct, my Ziggy Stardust reissue is AAA, which probably helps matters. As for LPs released by contemporaries, I find those to be very hit-and-miss, but my VMP pressing of St Vincent’s latest project does sound superb.
@ghosteeninthecave21 – Cool. Welcome to the hobby. The VMP stuff does tend to be well-mastered 🙂
@beachboy1965 – thanks for sharing. Dire Straits is an interesting one. It was the first DDD release on CD I believe.
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