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Is this Normal? Zeppelin IV LP sounds horrible

I picked up a copy of Zeppelin IV, one of my favorites. I decided to get an LP copy. I am sad to say that this pressing is honestly one of the worse recordings I have ever heard! Zeppelin stuff is never that "clean" but this is a damn shame. The record is "Near Mint" to "Mint" condition, and I am being conservative. I am curious if anyone has had experience with this pressing, and if someone could direct me to a more "ear friendly" pressing of this timeless classic. { And Yes, I already own the CD }.

Here are the details:
*Altantic.
*green, white stripe, and red label
*KSD-19129
*1971
*DIST WEA Canada
*Published by Superhype Music Inc ASCAP
*ST-A-712286
*the inscription on side B says
11/29/79 KSD19129 B#5 XD
*the inscription on side A says
KSD19129 A#4

So lets hear it, vinyl experts.
dfelkai

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audiofeil
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This is not an original Atlantic pressing; it is a reissue from 1977.

The original was released in 1971 as catalog number SD-7208.

I have both and neither is particularly noteworthy regarding sonics but the reissue is certainly the weaker of the two. It sounds muffled and compressed.

The best of the original Zep albums sonically speaking is Houses of the Holy.
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