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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?

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Appreciate this thread. I recently bought a $2500 DAC to bring my digital up to par with my analog and what I’m discovering is that the DAC sounds so good with redbook CDs that I’m in this prolonged evaluation process to determine which albums are better on vinyl vs CD. What that’s meaning to me so far is that other than my high end jazz (original 50s and 60s pressings, Music Matters, Analogue Productions, MoFi etc), I’m hanging onto vinyl only if pressings are OOP/collectible or only available in that format. Improvements in DAC technology is really exposing mass-produced vinyl to be a fad/fraud if you ask me. And, believe me, I didn’t want that to be true.

YMMV. But that’s where I’m at with it.

@therobert: Whole-heartedly agree on the Welch. That’s a brilliant pressing. But note the lengths they went to make that happen.
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