33 1/2 compared to 45 rpm ????

12 inch 45's sound better, but are over too soon. If you are all manual, they are a pain

Raul. Please explain further. I only buy new disks. I refuse to buy used. As in the new Matallica records. They offer em both in 33 1/5 and 45. I own not one 45. If 45 sound better then i am for purchasing the 45's.

I trust your judgement to the fullest as the same as Albert Porter but he never answers none of my threads :o( .

NOT EVERY THING THAT "SHINE" IS GOLD has me confused.

Roger Busby

Raul, that's interesting, can you please cite some examples where a 33rpm version bests a 45rpm version - of the same recording I mean?

That goes against everything I've experienced so I'm intrigued to learn what you have found. :)

Dear friends: I have some bad samples, one of them Cafe Blue ( Patricia Barber ) another one Black Orpheus.

Many of the first 30 LP 45 versions Analog Productions ( Acoustic Sounds ) are really bad. I suscribe to the Acousticsounds promotion to have in all that 45 version series the same limited edition LP serial number and at least some of my copies were inferior to the 33 versions, even in two of them I return it and when I receive the new one both were in the same condition.

I agree that in theory and like Rushton posted the 45 rpm recordings have advantages over a 33 rpm recording. When I say that not everything that " shine " is gold: what I mean is that not because we have a 45 version this one must be better than the 33 one, sometimes it is not because sometimes the 45 re-issue cut was made in the " wrong " way and this happen not only with 45 against 33 but take the Janis Ian " Breacking Silence ", the very first 33 rpm version is till today one of my test-reference recordings I use it so much that this original LP is with many clicks/pops. This LP was out of stock for sometime and I want to buy a new one to use it instead the " old " one, well Acousticsounds decided to print again and I buy it and you know what: it is inferior on quality performance to the " old " one even with all those clicks/pops, I'm still using the " old " one ( I have too a Test Pressing on that title that I try not use it very often ).

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.