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Sam here again.Is new remastered vinyl fake vinyl?

I grew up on vintage vinyl and I loved that sound, however I haven't owned a turntable in 20 years and the only reason I don't get back into vinyl is because new remastered vinyl is FAKE vinyl and I knew it from the first listen. Granted new remastered vinyl has a lot less surface noise than 1st press vinyl, however the sound is gone and it ain't no accident friends! Just have a listen to a first pressing of is this love by bob marley straight from YouTube to avoid manipulation of the audio.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxy-th7Lkko&t=5s   now have a listen to the remastered version of the same song.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCFazxbK6hc  Clearly the 1st press from 1978 has that very distinct sound I remember however, if I didn't know the remastered version was vinyl I would never know because that distinct sound is not there? And you can find hundreds of examples all with the same results. It looks like the vinyl isn't the only thing being played here friends? Compared to the 1st press the remastered version sounds like mono.
guitarsam
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limomangus
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I'm sorry  but when you have an orginal pressing of a record, that's the best.Look you can have a 1969 Led Zeppelin 2 , look how many pressing were made and how,many remastered were made .Jimmy Page swears by his new pressing and others say it sucks because it was digital remastering. It's all about the money.Plus they have critics paid off to telling you this copy is the Best.In the end it's your choice how many copies of the album you want.
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millercarbon
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guitarsam:
I grew up on vintage vinyl and I loved that sound, however I haven’t owned a turntable in 20 years


Sorry, Sam, but I’m just not buying it. Because if you really "loved that sound" then you would simply go out and buy it. From your local record store. From discogs. Or if you REALLY love that sound then from BetterRecords.com but any way you slice it, if you really do love that sound, then you would buy it. Not simulate it. Not carp about it. For sure the last thing you would do is refuse to buy a turntable over some made up nonsense about new reissues. Which we know is nonsense, and not because reissues are so great- they aren’t- but because you have no idea whether they are or not because you haven’t owned a turntable in 20 years!  

So how dumb do we have to be to believe a word you have to say about it???
rcprince
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Sorry sam, you're comparing the mastering, not the vinyl.  Makes a big difference. Want the original sound, get the original record, and play it on a rig similar to the one you had back when you fell in love with the sound.
guitarsam OP
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sam here i believe there doing something on purpose and it has nothing to do with the remastering? i don’t care if the eq is the same for both copies. the 1st press creates the hypersonic effect the new copy does not.i checked this using a muse headband to check my brainwaves as i listened to both versions and the 1st press version made my alpha waves light up like a christmas tree and the remaster i got no response?
jsd52756
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Hey Sam, I kind of agree to an extent.  Some LP's were so good originally having that 16 track tape sitting around for 40 years crystallizing can't be good for it.  On the other hand some of the 40 year old music was so poorly mastered by some bonehead engineer anything would be an improvement.  
-John
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