lps from "classic records" as awesome as axis bold

You know I have just gotten into vinyl again, and I cannot believe how much better the new vinyl is than the old. I am playing a 180g Kind of Blue right now that is sublime. But I just took off a Madman Across the Water, that was cleaned, no scratches, not warped, and it just sounded terrible!!! Very harsh, not nearly as good as the SACD version, and vinyl is in v good shape. Actually, with a few rare exception, almost all of the "old" vinyl I have bought, even pristine sealed older versions don't hold up to the new pressings. Even old technology seems to get better!!

I hear bad things about some classic record titles but I gotta say I've had nothing but GREAT sounding LPs from them:
1. Miles "Kind of Blue" is super wonderful
2. Miles "Sketches of spain" same
3. Carol King "Tapestry" super killer sound
4. Peter Gabriel 1st solo "car" - super
5. Louis Armstrong "Satchmo plays King Oliver" great sound
I have a few others/can't remember.. all great

>>I cannot believe how much better the new vinyl is than the old.<<

I'd guess you haven't had much experience with pristine original pressings.

"Madman Across the Water" (UNI 93105) is a superlative example.

By and large the preponderance of original pressings will smoke the reissues.

Xiekitchen,

is the peter gabriel 1 much better on the classic reissue because the original issue sounds pretty great.

I don't like the sound of peter gabriel 4 that much and was thinking of getting that from classic records

As for the miles davis kind of blue, have you heard it on sacd? is the vinyl much better than the sacd because I already have it on sacd?

audiofeil,

Perhaps the original issue are also great or even much better (not sure if I believe that in the case of the axis bold as love that is possible but it probably is subjective) but the reality is that many original issues are super expensive (not that the classic records are cheap) and more importantly the original issues are often not in mint condition.