Depends on style of music too. Often a group that's popular in the USA is actually a British (or other country) based group. At that point, that countries pressing is the home version and the USA pressing is the out of country version.
Radiohead comes to mind. I bought the USA version from a web site here in the USA and it sucks. Went to the official Radiohead website (in the UK) and bought the same LP as a double 45 RPM version and it's sounds like a different group it's so much better.
You might even get title specific and post here at Audiogon. In spite of the fact most of us are gear heads, a lot of us are software junkies too.
Another option is Steve Hoffman forums:
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/
I've seen discussions on LP's that cover EVERY possible version worldwide and even covering which pressings most faithfully reproduced the original tape.
A good example is the Beatles. The USA versions were so manipulated that the German and British copies sound like master tape playing compared to what we got here originally.
Radiohead comes to mind. I bought the USA version from a web site here in the USA and it sucks. Went to the official Radiohead website (in the UK) and bought the same LP as a double 45 RPM version and it's sounds like a different group it's so much better.
You might even get title specific and post here at Audiogon. In spite of the fact most of us are gear heads, a lot of us are software junkies too.
Another option is Steve Hoffman forums:
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/
I've seen discussions on LP's that cover EVERY possible version worldwide and even covering which pressings most faithfully reproduced the original tape.
A good example is the Beatles. The USA versions were so manipulated that the German and British copies sound like master tape playing compared to what we got here originally.