Toto ‎– Toto IV Label: Columbia ‎– HC 47728 Series: CBS Mastersound – Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Half-Speed Mastered  Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Rock Style:   Tracklist A1Rosanna5:32 A2Make Believe3:43 A3I Won't Hold You Back4:56 A4Good For You3:18 A5It's A Feeling3:06 B1Afraid Of Love3:52 B2Lovers In The Night4:27 B3We Made It3:56 B4Waiting For Your Love4:13 B5Africa4:55  

USA MASTERSOUND HALF SPEED MASTER PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL ANTI STATIC INNER SLEEVE, INSERT AND OUTER BAG WITH ORIGINAL HYPE STICKER.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD ONLY DUE TO CORNER CREASING AND SOME DENTING ALONG THE OPENING FRONT EDGE.  INSERT AND INNER SLEEVE[S] VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.  OUTER BAG OPEN WITH SOME WEAR BUT DOES HAVE ORIGINAL HYPE STICKER

DISC[S]: SIDE ONE IS EXCELLENT MINUS WITH JUST A FEW FINGERPRINTS, SIDE TWO HAS A SMALL MARK RIGHT AT THE END OF THE FIRST TRACK IN THE GROOVES BETWEEN TRACKS AND GRADES VERY GOOD+.  OTHERWISE JUST A FEW 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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