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Done buying new vinyl

Just bought a few albums recommended by a mag. Party by Aldous Harding and Beautiful Jazz by Christian Jacobs. The first has that slight buzzing distortion and dirty noise in one channel for the entire recording. The second has a two small clicks every revolution thru most of a side. The recording quality of the first varies from song to song. From very good to fair. But mostly dull with processing. The second is an AAA recording and is fair at best. Recorded too low and too muffled with flattened soundstage and dynamics. I have hundreds of 60s jazz and blues records that trounce these.
Should I send them back to Amazon?

noromance

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jasonsim
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My new rule is to only get the special limited edition reissues like the Mobile Fidelity one-step ultradiscs and the stuff produced by Analogue Productions.  I have had best of luck with their stuff like the Verve Jazz and BlueNote, Prestige series.  MusicMatters BlueNotes too are well worth it, if you can still get them. 

The other stuff seems like rubbish.  I picked up two of my favorite Alan Parson's project albums produced by Speakers Corner and they are not up to my standards.  Not for what they charge for these things!

I think I'm going to start making best use of my Tidal streaming account now that I can play MQA.  It sounds damn good to my ears.
jasonsim
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