Barbra Streisand ‎– Lazy Afternoon Label: Columbia ‎– PCQ 33815 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Quadraphonic  Country: US Released: Nov 1975 Genre: Pop Style: Vocal, Ballad Tracklist A1Lazy Afternoon3:47 A2My Father's Song3:52 A3By The Way2:55 A4Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)2:53 A5I Never Had It So Good3:35 B1Letters That Cross In The Mail3:36 B2You And I4:16 B3Moanin' Low4:25 B4A Child Is Born2:48 B5Widescreen3:59 Companies, etc. Copyright (c) – CBS Inc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Inc. Manufactured By – Columbia Records Manufactured By – CBS Inc. Credits Arranged By – Rupert Holmes Producer – Jeffrey Lesser, Rupert Holmes Notes "Quadraphonic" is on upper middle of front cover in white text. Original copies came in gatefold cover, This was the last Quad issue for Columbia.   

USA QUADRAPHONIC PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: EXCELLENT MINUS, STILL IN (OPENED) SHRINK WRAP.   INNER SLEEVE[S] VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND A COUPLE OF EDGE FINGERPRINTS. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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