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Is my CSNY De Ja Vu a bad pressing, or lost cause?

I hadn't listened to this in a while.  Such great music, but my LP sounds like a diffuse, muffled mess.  I'm usually able to listen through poor recordings to enjoy great music, but it was tough in this case.  The CSN debut (couch) LP was never good, but not this bad. I wish these could sound as good as David Crosby's solo, If I can only remember my name. That LP sounds great. 

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jsd52756- I'm just getting my feet wet with all this stuff, but I believe MO stands for Monarch. I have always read positive things about the MO's in general. It was enough just to have time to listen, so normally I would try and listen to MORE music. Now I'm starting to focus on comparing different pressings of the same LP. It only makes sense. (-:  smctigue1- thanks again. I am very curious to hear these. In the mean time, I will try and do my Classic "Couch" versus my Presswell.

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John- just read your comment again. Sorry, the "Couch" album is a different LP altogether. It's the Crosby, Stills, Nash debut LP. I call it the COUCH LP cause they are sitting on a couch on the cover. This of course, not to be confused with CSN, which is the 2nd CSN (w/o Young) LP. 
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Thanks fjn for the responses.  I really enjoy reading about some of this stuff.  The Couch name makes sense.  Like Peter Gabirle's Scratch album and others.  I remember us teenagers looking all over the Zep 4 album to try an find a name.  Now I'm going to go put on that Deja Vu album and think of simpler times and great harmonies.
-John
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I did a shootout of the De Ja Vu that smctigue1 kindly sent, and my earlier 4 digit catalog # . So SD-7200 versus SD-19118. The latter was the same cat. # that had lost in my prior shootout, but of course they have different matrix #'s.  I started with SD-19118- it was quite enjoyable, but was definitely on the laid back side. Sort of a sink in to the chair, and let your imagination hop on the time machine. Surfaces were quiet, nice detail,  but still on the cloudy/thick side, like I had remembered my SD19118. Memory was that this one was a tad less thick and cloudy. Kind of like the difference between having your lava lamp on, or just going to sleep. I stuck with Side 1 only, as smctigue1  had mentioned this side as having the "R" designation. Plus, I admit sometimes I just want to listen to music. Anyway, on went my preferred (at this point) copy. I'm going to use a tube analogy, because it was like somewhere in the chain a mullard was replaced with a Telefunken.
It snapped backed in to focus, considerably more open as well. It also sounded as if my TT speed jumped from 32.3 to 33.3. No Time Machine necessary, you had been transported. Prat was much better, so turn that lava light back on and raise the dimmer. With all this, it did not become thin, whitish or anything like.... So not to be confused in case someone finds Telefunken tubes to be that way.  Very cool indeed. Thanks again to smctigue1. Next up,  the Couch album.
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