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Living Stereo sound bad?

Sorta a sidebar to another of my threads but, I recently bought a bunch of original Living Stereo label LPs. The guy I bought 'em from had them stacked like flap jacks. When I cleaned the records, the pops and ticks were relatively far and few between but, I would've expected the sound quality to be much better. Does the reputation of these records apply to ALL the Living Stereo records or just a few? Could the way they were stacked have caused any damage? Could they have been played on a junky table that caused groove damage? Just curious.
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Pawlowski6132, you might find interesting Arthur Salvatore's comments about the "Golden Age" era pressings of many records so highly touted by collectors. Arthur is a somewhat controversial figure, but I've found that I agree with most of what he says about the sound quality of various LPs (predominantly classical). Here's a link to the section of his web site where he explains why his listing of the best sounding LPs do not include any of the original RCA "Shaded Dog", Mercury "Living Presence," London "Blue Back" et al pressings:

www.high-endaudio.com/supreme.html#Miss

Here's the link to the beginning of his discussion of "the Supreme LPs" (the finest sounding LP recordings he's ever heard):

www.high-endaudio.com/supreme.html

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