180g … It’s All Hype !

Too much generalizing and over-simplifying for me, but one sentence really stands out:

"with the same quality control they had back in the day."

If you think record labels manufactured their 1960’s/70/s/80’s LPs with the care Chad Kassem puts into his QRP pressings, well, I have some swamp land to sell you.

Suggestion: Compare original Buffalo Springfield LPs with the new reissues of those albums Neil Young is doing. If you prefer the originals, I’ll sell you mine for a hundred bucks each.

Another: The original Tea For The Tillerman LPs were mastered with Dolby noise reduction engaged in the chain. When Kassem went to reissue this record, he discovered the tape was not Dolby encoded. So the ’flat" tape had had most of it’s high end removed by the Dolby playback circuitry, drastically changing the timbre of Cat Stevens’ plastic-bodied Ovation acoustic guitar (and the drummer’s cymbals, which I always found severely lacking in shimmer).

If you prefer the sound of the original LPs, that’s your business. But to call them better than the Analogue Productions reissue tells us a lot about your judgment in sound quality. No offence intended. I compared my original UK Island pressing to the Analogue Productions version, and there was a very clear winner. Contrary to your assertion, the reissue was superior to the original in every way. And gee, it's a 180 gram slab of PVC.

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My experience with 180g LP’s has proven to me not worth the money…

Seriously… $40, $50, $60 or more for a record and it has nothing to do with my hearing… The ROI for me is not justified. 

You mention …“Too much generalizing and over-simplifying for me”

Didn’t feel like typing more so to answer you here’s just a few I’ve had issues with…and prefer my originals. 

• Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood - Warped - Remixed & Orig Sounds Better
• Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery& Imagination - Scuffed & Orig Sounds Better
• Al Stewart - Year of the Cat - Scuffed & Orig Sounds Better
• Led Zep - Physical Graffiti - remixed with unrecognized added rifts / leads - Orig Sounds Better 
• Blind Mellon - Sounds Like The CD was used as the master
• Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats - Warped so bad was beyond ability to play and was replaced by the MFG. 

I’ve got several more as well…

Every one of my 180g LP’s have all been purchased “NEW”, several from local record shops others on line,  I just don’t understand where’s the QC, esp at the prices charged.

Not saying every older LP is an excellently MASTERED Recording, but there are many out there I make it a point to find and would be a total disservice if they even thought of remastering & reissuing. 

It’s easy to sound important and informed but I really make it a habit not to take sound advice from people who think you smoke LSD….

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-smoke-LSD

My System Sounds Great and My Listening Experience Transforming and to me that’s all that matters.

No offense intended

+1 on War “The World is a Ghetto.”  $5 and that’s one I would put on to show off my speakers.  Cisco Kid is a friend of mine too.

I agree. I don't buy expensive records. I get great satisfaction from finding great sounding, quiet playing records for $3.

A 180 gram record will sound different if you don't adjust VTA. 

I think they‘re mainly for the “use LP‘s to listen to sounds and their systems crowd“

drastically changing the timbre of Cat Stevens’ plastic-bodied Ovation acoustic guitar (and the drummer’s cymbals, which I always found severely lacking in shimmer).

in which case the music doesn‘t really matter anyway…