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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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An 80s Japanese Kind Of Blue or Blue Train is probably still the best way to go on a budget.
I picked this up recently and it sounds fantastic, my only Acoustic sounds series. I would be tempted to pick up their pressing of love supreme as I think it will be better than my 70's repress.
https://www.discogs.com/release/19292413-Oliver-Nelson-The-Blues-And-The-Abstract-Truth I'm still hopeful of picking up a HMV one.
bitterbuffalo
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 Vinyl
I 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.