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Poco "Legend" half-speed MFSL vinyl

Hi All!
Just bought a used Poco "Legend" half-speed master MFSL vinyl & I bought it with great anticipation. This is an original MFSL (I checked it) & it is cut by the venerable Stan Ricker himself on JVC Japanese vinyl. I cleaned it in my VPI 16.5 machine & played it yesterday. The LP is really clean & I hear no groove damage at all.
However, I find that the music is rather bass heavy i.e. I feel that there is too much bass in all the tracks. In many tracks I feel that the lead singer's voice has been pushed back & the bass brought forward! Some of the tracks on this LP are on the CD I own (Poco's greatest hits) & I hate to say this but I prefer those tracks on the CD 'cuz the presentation is more balanced!! By the time I was done with the LP my stomach wasn't feeling that good! I have never felt this way with any of my other LPs even with the Blues vinyl that I own. This is very disappointing to me & I'm too embarressed to 'fess up how much I paid for this LP!

Does anyone out there have this same MFSL half-speed master? If so, do you feel the same way about it? I just wondering whether my ears are deceiving me or whether my system needs an adjustment? TIA
bombaywalla

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Thanks guys for the feedback!
Whew! You all have exonerated my system & my ears.
Now I gotta figure out my game plan with this MFSL LP.

There's so much hype surrounding various MFSL vinyl on many internet vinyl vendors & the way they advertise this vinyl, it almost makes you feel bad that you are not buying any MFSL issues! I'm glad that I didn't get suckered into buying them as many of them would have been utter disappointments!

Thanks for giving me specific album names that I could seek out on Nautilus &/or MFSL labels. I'll short-list them.
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