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BARNES & NOBLE HAS VINYL!!!!! BUT IS THE QUALITY UP TO AUDIOPHILE STANDARDS ????

Seen this rack full of vinyl in the old barnes & noble, the art work was not the best but how is the vinyl? some great titles, has anyone tried it and like them, how is the quality, well i purchased a  Phil Collins , hello I must be going and I will get back to you with my report. 
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jedinite24
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IME the LPs that they sell at Barnes and Noble is the same quality you would find if you were ordering from PopMarket.com, Rock&Soul Records, Urban Outfitters and other retailers that are selling new LPs being sold now. A U2 Joshua Tree 180 gram LP reissue or the Depeche Mode LPs I bought in various e-tailers and retailers looked exactly the same at what Barnes & Noble is selling. The quality they get would depend on their LP supplier right? How could there be a difference? I guess B&N would carry different titles. I found some Rodrigo y Gabriella albums that I didn't find in Popmarket.
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mofimadness
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The quality they get would depend on their LP supplier right? How could there be a difference?
There isn’t a difference. All of the LPs, now matter where you buy them, come from the same distributors. It isn’t like these specialty retailers are pressing their own vinyl...
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Say, isn't the new vinyl overly compressed, dynamic range wise?

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paraneer
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These are all new reissues of classic titles.  So your question is really are these reissues up to audiophile standards?

Some sound good, some sound awful.  IMO, most do not sound as good as a pristine copy of an original pressing.  Or original audiophile pressings by MoFi, Nautilus, CBS Masterworks and especially Japanese pressings.

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bdp24
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The poster/posting assumes and implies that the LP's sold at Barnes & Noble are unique to B & N. They are not; the LP's in the B & N racks are the same as those sold at all other retailers. B & N doesn't get LP's pressed expressly and uniquely for them.
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