And not a minute too soon.
We are having a hard time keeping up with all the bad records being made these days.
Below you will find links to records that audiophiles with a desire for top quality sound would be wise to avoid.
Those of you who enjoy collecting records — on Heavy Vinyl and otherwise — strictly for the sake of collecting are going to end up with a lot of the titles we criticize here. As long as your stereo stays at the level it is now and never improves much, the faults of these pressings should stay safely hidden from you, which means you can enjoy collecting them to your heart’s delight.
We encourage music loving audiophiles to take a different approach, one that has the potential to pay much bigger dividends in the future.
Just added in 2024
Audiophile Pressings with Bad Sound
Vintage Classical Pressings with Weak Sound or Performances
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Weak Decca/London Pressings
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Weak Mercury Pressings
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Weak RCA Pressings
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Weak Classical Pressings, All Labels
Original Jazz Classics
Vintage Pressings with Weak Sound or Music
The Worst of the Worst
These are the worst sounding versions of these albums we’ve ever played. Until something worse comes along, these are the pits. We hope you will not be surprised to find a great many audiophile records listed here.
Bad Sounding Records I Used to Like
In my formative years as an audiophile and record collector, I used to like a lot of records that sound awful to me now. If you are playing your old records regularly, and making improvements to your analog playback, you should find plenty to dislike in the records you once loved. Don’t let it get you down. Celebrate it. It’s a sign of progress.
Digitally Remastered Records with Bad Sound
Titles with a “New Sound” We Didn’t Care For
Records with Modern Sound We Don’t Like
This is definitely not our sound. We prefer our records to sound like good vintage pressings.
Records Better Suited to the Systems of the 60s and 70s