Dylan -- Highway 61 Revisted

ken

Have you tried the Sundazed pressings of Dylan's albums?

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BBM

no i haven't -- please tell me more...!

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ken

Well then, just check out the site for yourself...

 the Sundazed.com store

I have bought all of their Dylan pressings, and I have been impressed. They have a great catalog.

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BBM

good suggestion. i will definitely try to fetch and clean my old copy -- again bought when i was @ uni!

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ken

BBM,

You obviously have no other copies to compare with the Sundazed reissues as they are renown for being awful. Don't waste your money Ken.

Steve

well an trawl in the loft yielded some results -- i found an old copy of Highway 61 Revisited -- and i know this is the one i suspected i had. i will give it a good clean and then a spin -- looking fwd to that -- a bit busy right now, so this will probably have to wait till weekend.

while i was in the loft, i realized just how many records i had just sitting there -- brought down quite a lot of them (after taking them up there to 'save space' ???).

quite a few i have brought down i will simply give them away or take them to a charity shop -- i know i completely failed to appreciate artists like Eric Marienthal, Ben Sidran etc- i found a few albums -- plus other fusion albums that i don't really care for now... You can tell i used to read a certain Hifi magazine 

but i also found a lot of gems --a LOT of Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Thelonius Monk etc -- what were they doing up there?

This was only a small dent -- i was only looking at one of 4 shelves full of vinyl. part of me feels i have too many -- but hey! its a collection built up over a long time, so i guess not too surprising... And i know folks who have a LOT more than i have -- so i don't feel too guilty :-)

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ken

Talk of cleaning LPs and that temptingly open washing machine door makes me nervous.....

I'm sure a lot of these heavy vinyl and remaster LPs are just a con to extract cash from the well heeled music lover. Many of the original releases were just great. But not all, of course. Clearly it's a bit of a lottery.

I would generally agree Nigel. An original early press in decent condition usually has better SQ than reissues. I see no point buying a reissue/remaster of an album where the original is easily available at a reasonable price. There are exceptions though. The MFSL 45rpm Bob Dylan LPs are at least as good if not better than the originals. The same generally goes for 45rpm LPs from Music Matters and Analogue Productions. Also, many original LPs are expensive to buy today and reissues allow us to buy the music on vinyl at a reasonable price. SQ can be a bit of a lottery though. I try to go for those that have been remastered all analogue rather than digitally. 

would speed up the process substantially though ..

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ken

Well I guess if you live in/near some great big city and all that, you can find shops to spend your time and money and actually find all these racks of great originals that are so easy to come by. For me, it's a 2000 mile rounder. Makes the choice kinda easy when you have no choice...

BBM

Have you tried the Sundazed pressings of Dylan's albums

I've mostly been successful in this lottery, having picked up no more than a dozen 180g pressings over the last few years - all have been spectacularly good and better than my old dusty originals. To go back on track for a mo, my copy of Highway 61, which I bought new in 1973, has been played to death - many times being up all night, leaning on the windowsill - but the Sundazed version is better. My Sundazed copies of Love Revisited and Electric Music for the M&B sound amayyyyzzing.

I'm surprised to see good comments on the Sundazed pressings ... I've previously only heard negative things about that company and the one album of theirs that I have (The Incredible String Band) is nothing special in terms of SQ.

On the other hand, I've heard very good reports of the more recent Music On Vinyl Dylan pressings (both mono & stereo) supposedly done in conduction with Columbia from original tapes.

I'm not the biggest Dylan fan (I only own Blonde & Desire) but I am tempted to try one of those mono editions.

Sundazed are rubbish. Just wait for the MFSL 45rpm to be released.

A bit of a wild generalisation? Sundazed are a respectable reissue company. Anyow what would the price differential be? 

Well I have a copy of the Sundazed and you can have it for $2.  Stone mint - only been played once or twice .  That was enough, thank you.

I had the Sundazed copy and it was so bad I gave it away. I ordered 3 Sundazed LPs at the time and the SQ was equally appalling. I won't touch them again.