There are some 180 gram reissues produced in Germany that are just plain awful. They can’t begin to hold a candle to good American copies.
The Original Orange Label CBS pressings always have that veiled, opaque, smeary quality that we dislike so much. They are obviously made from sub-generation tapes. The transients suffer badly when dub tapes are used.
Further Reading
- Collecting better sounding records
- First get good sound – then you can recognize and acquire good records
- Acquiring a good sounding record collection – Hot Stampers versus collector pressings
