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Vinyl reissue labels to avoid?

There is a wealth of music being reissued on vinyl, but not all labels are equal.

There are some excellent vinyl reissue labels that use original anaolg sources and produce very good lps such as Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner Records, RhinOvinyl, Classic Records, Impulse!, Sundazed, etc.

Then there are some dubious EU labels that use cds as "remastered" sources from 50+ yr old recordings due to copyright loopholes (Doxy and WaxTime come to mind). I don't want 180g cds!

Some labels I now avoid:
WaxTime
DOXY
Not Now Music
Jazz Wax Records
Scorpio

Who should we be avoiding, and who should we be buying? I am only interested in 33rpm lps, which we flip as they were meant to (as opposed to the 45rpm reissues which may sound good but take us from sides A&B to 4 unnaturally truncated sides).

For 33rpm reissues, who are the good, the bad, and the ugly?

toronto416
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syntax
2,193 posts
 
Some labels I now avoid:
WaxTime
DOXY
Not Now Music
Jazz Wax Records
Scorpio

Thank you for your list.
What comes to my mind is "Simply Vinyl". They are out of business
now but I remember they had a big Fangroup, too.
Btw. they got good "reviews" from our usual magazines- online cheaters, too :-)
Everyone gets what he deserves.
brauser
524 posts
 
I think all 'Vinyl Labels' should be avoided... No, just kidding. Did get out of the analog side of the hobby a few years back and really haven't missed it, although I recognize that a first rate turntable, arm and cartridge set-up is a beautiful thing to behold both sonically and aesthetically.
hfisher3380
167 posts
 
Simply Vinyl and Back to Black come to mind for me.
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