Bill Evans Riverside Recordings Box Set is FINALLY IN STOCK!!

I have an original box set and it doesn't have a side #2.  There's a side labelled #2, but it's actually side #18, if I remember correctly.  Something I've never encountered before.  Very strange.

I like the Bill Evans box set $900 , since I have some of his album? I decided to buy the Venus 30th aniversary box set sampler for $449.

I had a Riverside box set of the 1963 trio recordings with Scott Lafaro and Paul Motian and they were just all-right. Riverside left the mixes alone but cleaned things up however at PCM 16 bit/44.1 I opted to sell it for more than I paid for it and eventually downloaded a DSD file of ‘Waltz for Debbie’ which I like a slight bit better.

I have finally had time to play the first 2 titles of this boxset.
Sadly, quite disappointed in the quality of the vinyl so far... I have played 4 sides and 3 of the 4 have unacceptably noisy vinyl... constant ticks/hash.
At $82 per album, $41 per disc, this is even more unacceptable.

I waited so long for this... and I'm finding no matter if its RTI or QRP, the pressings more often than not are noisy.

Starting to re-think my purchasing in this hobby... getting really tired of the lack of QC.

@rich121 I would talk to the folks at Acoustic Sounds.  I have played all the discs a couple times now and none of them have noise.  They are all just as quiet as my MoFi UD1S albums.  

The QC of today's world of pressing has been a let down.  Noise and warpage on brand new records is too common.  I bought a vinyl flat for the warpage and it works well, but only on new vinyl...has never worked on older albums.  

When I last spoke to AS about an update of this release I asked if they were pressing enough to ensure my backorder would be fulfilled.  They said do not worry as they are pressing more than enough for future sales as well.  I would think they could work with you on a possible replacement.  I would at least want to send them back so they can experience the problem.  Hopefully they would be open to this on such a high-value product. 

Good luck!