33 1/2 compared to 45 rpm ????

Raul, that's interesting, can you please cite some examples where a 33rpm version bests a 45rpm version - of the same recording I mean?

That goes against everything I've experienced so I'm intrigued to learn what you have found. :)

Dear friends: I have some bad samples, one of them Cafe Blue ( Patricia Barber ) another one Black Orpheus.

Many of the first 30 LP 45 versions Analog Productions ( Acoustic Sounds ) are really bad. I suscribe to the Acousticsounds promotion to have in all that 45 version series the same limited edition LP serial number and at least some of my copies were inferior to the 33 versions, even in two of them I return it and when I receive the new one both were in the same condition.

I agree that in theory and like Rushton posted the 45 rpm recordings have advantages over a 33 rpm recording. When I say that not everything that " shine " is gold: what I mean is that not because we have a 45 version this one must be better than the 33 one, sometimes it is not because sometimes the 45 re-issue cut was made in the " wrong " way and this happen not only with 45 against 33 but take the Janis Ian " Breacking Silence ", the very first 33 rpm version is till today one of my test-reference recordings I use it so much that this original LP is with many clicks/pops. This LP was out of stock for sometime and I want to buy a new one to use it instead the " old " one, well Acousticsounds decided to print again and I buy it and you know what: it is inferior on quality performance to the " old " one even with all those clicks/pops, I'm still using the " old " one ( I have too a Test Pressing on that title that I try not use it very often ).

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Thank You so much Raul. Well explained.

Roger Busby

I'm really enjoying those new Music Matters Blue Note releases and at $50 a piece are much cheaper than trying to find an old deep groove with little surface wear

the sonics are stellar - you really feel you are in the recording room on those ones

the only thing I hate about 45 rpm is there's a lot more records to clean (three step process on a Loricraft 10 minutes a record)

Very interesting, thanks Raul. I must've had luck then, or I should just compare more often!

I must say that most of my 45rpm's are pretty new releases, that might explain a few things. I'm listening to and am being stunned by Music Matters for example, but also to some of the older 1-sided Classic Records' 45 Series (which I find wildly better than the 33rpm's they released later).

I haven't heard many of the Fantasy 45 series by Analogue Productions unfortunately. Most of the ones I want are sold out and near-impossible to find. I've been looking for the 45rpm Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins for some time, missed one at over $300 on eBay.. Surely it's not _that_ good, or is it? I have the older DCC LP which I find astonishing. Anyone knows if the AP 45rpm is better?