Bad luck with Maiden vinyl

DrRocklml

DrRocklml

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Unbelievable. Why is it so hard to find a good used but playable copy of Iron Maiden on Ebay? I've gone so far through 2 bad copies if S/T, 1 of Killers, 1 of Piece of Mind, 2 of Somewhere in Time, and 4 of the new LAD reissues. They are all either blatantly overgraded or have skips. I swear man, I'm in a bit deep with the vinyl stuff but now I'm starting to second guess myself if the much superior sound quality is worth all the BS because I'm getting alot of overgraded crap from alot of other bands too. The straw that is about to break the camel's back is a US DMM of Somewhere in Time. Was going so freaking good the first 3 tracks until the very end of "Sea of Madness" there is a skip that will not go away with a cleaning, meaning the groove is damaged! Ugh. So freaking pissed.
 
Most records I get are over graded. They're always described Mint or Near Mint but rarely are in reality. I haven't bought second-hand IM stuff though. I imagine the problem is heightened in their case as it's a strong collector market.
I get alot of my stuff through discogs which, I think, has a bit more reliability. I once got something better than described!
 
"Superior sound quality".

The CD is superior in pretty much every way, in both sound quality and frequency reproduction. It has however enabled the loudness wars to run rampant, so it's the mastering and remastering that should be blamed, not the CD as a format.
 
You've got to accept imperfection if you go vinyl but, for me, it's a much richer experience.
The physicality of it, watching it rotate(a bit like your dad watching the first microwave ovens), the large sleeve.
It's annoying that they often don't include pics and info that are present with the cd booklet, although Maiden are good at doing this.
 
Maturin said:
"Superior sound quality".

The CD is superior in pretty much every way, in both sound quality and frequency reproduction. It has however enabled the loudness wars to run rampant, so it's the mastering and remastering that should be blamed, not the CD as a format.
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To each their own but my ears don't lie. A true NM record smokes a CD any day of the week but people have their own preferences. Problem is, finding a NM record. I just got another Piece of Mind and once again listed as excellent and it's not so by any means. SMH
 
DrRocklml said:
To each their own but my ears don't lie. A true NM record smokes a CD any day of the week but people have their own preferences. Problem is, finding a NM record. I just got another Piece of Mind and once again listed as excellent and it's not so by any means. SMH
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I guess you misunderstood. I'm fairly certain you have never compared the actual formats but other factors. The CD with the same master is going to sound better, every time. The problem is, CD's are released with different mastering containing far more dynamic range compression because the format allows more of it before distortion kicks in, and they're also louder. Thus, the 1998 CD remasters of the Iron Maiden catalogue are pretty bad compared to the original LP releases, but that is solely due to what was done in the remastering process. (There are far better CD versions of those albums out there, but they're hard to find.)

Again, it's not the format that is the problem, it's what the mastering engineers do with the audio.

I buy new LP's all the time because the CD's are often destroyed by bad mastering, with few exceptions. The Winery Dogs is a fairly recent example of a record where the LP sounds better.
 
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