What is meant by IMPORT?

>>Royal Scam as the U.S. pressings all sucked<<

Nope, that's wrong.

Both of my original ABC yellow label pressings are dead quiet.

Sorry.

I'm with Audiofeil, only 4x mo money.

Listening is important. Some import pressings have been better than US pressings, and some have been worse. I find Xiekitchen's statement that vinyl quality has a lot to do with how good an LP sounds to be true more often than not. Island Records UK has pressed many excellent LP's that outshine their US counterparts, to cite one example. Whether you want to pay a premium for that is always your own choice (what is the price of better sound?)--Mrmitch

Audiofeil..
Well, you must have had better ones than me.. I think I had two U.S. pressings of Royal Scam and both suffered from noisy/distortion sounds like bad vinyl or vinyl with 'dirt' pressed into it... I had a 'shootout' of sorts with a german import, uk import and the said u.s. pressings. German Import won.
BUT.. I don't have a 10K table with a Triplanar arm (sure wish I did) and a Loricraft cleaner.

Mrmitch:
You are right about the Island UK pressings.