Sold Date: October 7, 2021
Start Date: September 30, 2021
Final Price: $99.99 (USD)
Bid Count: 1
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USA TRIPLE ALBUM SET IN BOX WITH CUE SHEETS AND ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVES.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+ WITH SOME STORAGE, SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  MINOR PEN NOTATIONS.  CUE SHEETS VERY GOOD+ WITH THE ODD PEN OR PENCIL NOTATION.  INNER SLEEVES VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISCS: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES, POSSIBLY NEVER PLAYED, OR IF PLAYED ONLY A FEW TIMES. 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, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.