BESIDES MOFI WHATS THE BEST L.P.s?

I've been consistently impressed w/ Classic Records and Analogues Productions also (the Monk box set from the latter is amazing). A bit put off by MoFi in recent purchases (low number pressings of the MJQ records), but most of my MoFi's are pretty good. DCC's are geat also..keep waiting for Music Direct to deliver on their promise to start issuing new pressings on this lable!!. The recent EMI re-issues on Vinyl are quite good (though I do not like most of the music they have chosen to re-issue!). I am lucky enought to travel to Europe often on business, and usually find plenty of London Bluebacks, London ffrs, and original EMI classical pressings. Usually perfect, and seldom more than $5 a pop :-). Best city so far is Brussels, where they practically give the classical albums way (there are about ten good used recod stores there!). Great place for orignal UK pressings of rock/pop, including Decca Rolling Stones and Beatles Parlophones

i try to find japanese, dutch, french, german and english pressings of each of my favorite lp's. it's difficult to generalize among labels or origin of pressings. sometimes mofi's are best (tho, very limited in selection), sometimes jvc's, etc. if you have a passion for certain lp's, you owe it to yourself to try all the pressings of them you can find. there are surprises to be had around every corner. some of my favorite versions of my "set" come from australia, canada and greece!

something left out of my last post: i've bought records throughout the u.s and europe. my current fave "market" for variety and cost is ebay. watch your rear, tho; you gotta know what you're doing. (i buy mostly classic rock, folk and blues, with some specialty classical-e.g., lyrita pressings.)

Oddly enough, some sources of great sounding vinyl is on labels least expected. So many of the OJC jazz re-releases are just a pleasure to listen to. Seldom, if ever are domestic albums, especially late 80s, worthy of listening to. At least I have few. Some European labels, i.e. Orange Blue and Gemini have some good recordings and accessible jazz. One of my favorite albums is "Art Of Attack", by Marty Wilson Piper of The Church. It is on Ryko all analogue. Side one is fantastic. It'll give your system one hell of a ride. Used record shops may carry old Blue Notes, Milestone, etc.. Admittedly, classical is the least satisfying on vinyl. Nearly all the releases, late 60's and beyond are crap. Again, from what I have heard. Happy hunting.

RCA Redseal label since they used virgin vinyl for the pressings and careful selected of master molds for the stamping machine. The result is less surface electrostatic noise, dust induces surface noise, much less wear and tear to your stylus tip. There are very few recordings being released in that label in the early 80's so keep looking. cheers,