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Originally Posted by njdevil26
Quick question for everyone....
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There's a lot here so I'm going to multiquote
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Originally Posted by njdevil26
Does anyone else here think that Record Store Day has gotten out of control? While the main purpose is to get the customer to support their local record store, it just ends up putting a ton of money in the hands of people that buy things with the intention of immediately selling them for a profit.
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I think some of the manufactured rarity is out of hand, but that has really always been the case with RSD. It's called record
store day, not record
collectors day. It's still about getting people into a shop and spending money, not necessarily about helping out vinyl enthusiasts.
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The average cost of vinyls has gone up $5-20 total while the quality has gone down in many cases.
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The price of records, in general, has stayed fairly in line with inflation. A single LP is ~$20, a 2xLP is $35ish. That single LP at $20 in 2017 is equal to $8.80 in 1985. Some things are overpriced, especially gimmicky stuff. But things that are well mastered and produced are fairly in line with historical pricing, adjusted for inflation.
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Originally Posted by njdevil26
Hell, most DMB releases have had numerous issues while customers like you and I are putting out a lot of money for these things. I had no shot at getting a copy of Red Rocks.... now I am glad I didn't after all the issues I'm hearing about.
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A lot of the issues have been overblown. Things like skipping are generally an issue with the turntable, minus a locked groove skip, as seen by some of the posts in the last page re:LP60. Red Rocks sounds fantastic and was a great release. Crash sounds absolutely stunning, the issue people had was with a splatter color release Amazon put out not looking pretty. UTTAD was good, though could have been all analog so there was some grumbling. Ted Jensen used the wrong source reel for Jimi Thing which was a mispress but it was corrected and the sound is fairly good (though not as good as it could have been if Bellman had gotten to do it AAA). The Live Trax series and R2T/Recently were well done and sound as good as possible given their source.
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Originally Posted by njdevil26
The vinyl resurgence is being ruined. I started collecting in 2009 and Big Whisky was my first vinyl. I now have 221. I am very selective on what vinyls I buy because a lot are just a plain rip off. People are paying $30 for 120 gram crap pressings where the $10 CD would actually sound better.
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Just FWIW, the weight of a vinyl record has (generally) no bearing on the sound quality.
People should be format agnostic. If the vinyl release has the same master as the CD, yes the CD is a better option and will sound better (as will digital files). If there is a separate vinyl master, there is a chance it is less compressed and will sound better than a CD/digital file. I love releases on SACD and Blu-ray Audio. If you care about the sound, you can usually dig a bit to find the best sounding format.