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Sam here again.Is new remastered vinyl fake vinyl?

I grew up on vintage vinyl and I loved that sound, however I haven't owned a turntable in 20 years and the only reason I don't get back into vinyl is because new remastered vinyl is FAKE vinyl and I knew it from the first listen. Granted new remastered vinyl has a lot less surface noise than 1st press vinyl, however the sound is gone and it ain't no accident friends! Just have a listen to a first pressing of is this love by bob marley straight from YouTube to avoid manipulation of the audio.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxy-th7Lkko&t=5s   now have a listen to the remastered version of the same song.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCFazxbK6hc  Clearly the 1st press from 1978 has that very distinct sound I remember however, if I didn't know the remastered version was vinyl I would never know because that distinct sound is not there? And you can find hundreds of examples all with the same results. It looks like the vinyl isn't the only thing being played here friends? Compared to the 1st press the remastered version sounds like mono.
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guitarsam:
I grew up on vintage vinyl and I loved that sound, however I haven’t owned a turntable in 20 years


Sorry, Sam, but I’m just not buying it. Because if you really "loved that sound" then you would simply go out and buy it. From your local record store. From discogs. Or if you REALLY love that sound then from BetterRecords.com but any way you slice it, if you really do love that sound, then you would buy it. Not simulate it. Not carp about it. For sure the last thing you would do is refuse to buy a turntable over some made up nonsense about new reissues. Which we know is nonsense, and not because reissues are so great- they aren’t- but because you have no idea whether they are or not because you haven’t owned a turntable in 20 years!  

So how dumb do we have to be to believe a word you have to say about it???
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