Good to know.
Thanks for the heads up.
IIRC, I have an old copy of Endless Summer that sounds surprisingly good.
Album-wise, I suppose I’d like a good analogue copy of Beach Boys Today! or Pet Sounds. Never owned one before. I have a so-so mono reissue of Pet Sounds and have never owned a good analogue copy of Beach Boys Today!.
Because I still only truly love 4, maybe 5 tracks, so I’m not sure if a full-on fancy-pants analogue purchase necessary for me.
Get 'em while you can!
Chad Kassem's last Analogue Productions YouTube video included him stating that AP would not be pressing any more copies of The Beach Boy LP's. That has apparently led to a flood of fomo (fear of missing out) purchases of their remaining stock, as those albums comprise most of Acoustic Sounds' Top 40 sellers list!
If you've procrastinated buying any of them, better do it now; when they go out-of-print their price with skyrocket (AS has already raised the price of some titles). The best sounding of the lot is the Surfer Girl album---demo sound quality. I particularly like the Sunflower album.
Some titles are available in multiple configurations: both stereo and mono, and in 33-1/3 RPM (single LP) and 45 RPM (two LP's) versions. IMO the recorded sound quality of most of the albums doesn't justify 45 RPM (including Pet Sounds, which wasn't that well recorded), but that's up to you.
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@bdp24 I think Smiley Smile is great, even if it was a watered-down, hastily-released version of what Brian was really after. I prefer Smiley Smile to Brian’s Smile LP that came out about 20 years ago. I had the two-fer Pet Sounds in my Discogs cart a couple years ago, for some reason didn’t pull the trigger, and then got an email saying, “someone else bought this LP.” Then I just kind of let the analogue-copy-of-Pet Sounds thing fall off my radar for some reason. Sounds like you were happy with the Analogue Productions copy of Smiley Smile, which is good to know. |