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I've bought Blue Note classic series re-issues as well as some Tone Poet series. I've also bought
Music Matters Jazz
Analogue Productions / Acoustic Sounds
Speaker's Corner
Simply VinylI don't bother with 45 rpms. I cba to get up every 10 minutes to flip the record, two discs per LP takes up space, they cost too much and I'm not convinced the SQ is much better than well pressed 33 rpms.
I don't buy Music Matters anymore. They are too expensive, and I received one disc which was damaged, and I cba to send stuff back to 'murica.
A while back, Blue Note classics were fairly hit and miss. I had a few duds. More recently, they have been ok. The Tone Poets I have bought have been fine.
Analogue Productions / Acoustic sounds have been the most consistently good in my experience. QRP and Kevin Gray mastering seems to be a recipe for success; I've not had a dud disc from them. They are pricey but I'd say reasonable value for the quality.
Speaker's Corner I've also found fine, maybe not quite to the standards of AP, but consistently good.
Just my experience.
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Your experience concurs with mine almost entirely except I've had one or 2 duds from Analog Productions and only 1 disk from speakers corner with even the smallest fault.
Analog Productions have stood by the product and sent replacements though.
I think this type of pressing is worth it to some people most of the time. Considering how unlikely it is to find mint original of most of these reissues. Even VG+ is a stretch and potentially thousands for some of the first US pressings.
If you're buying in Europe and don't want to mess with the second hand market Speakers Corner is a brilliant label. You're not going to get Kind Of Blue or Blue Train on that label though.
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Have you heard of Sam Records? Small French label. Their reissues are better than the OG. Beautiful packaging, Superb mastering, unbelievable pressing. Not an overloaded catalogue, but some of the finest reissues around
Airhead
metrocammell
The latest ones tick all the boxes and they do seem to have fixed the pressing quality now. There was some talk about problems with the tape machine at the mastering stage with early reissues in the series. Although they have been mastered by Kevin Gray who is around the top of the game at the moment.
Quality wise they are a little bit lower quality than speakers corner but they have some of the biggest albums and speakers corner don't get a look in on the really good stuff. It's close on quality but they must have wanted to make a little more money.