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45RPM reissues: really better one-side pressing?

Hello friends,

a lot of Classic Records reissues, Jazz and classical, was made on double sides pressing (two LP's from an original LP) and a lot of other was made on one-side pressing version (four LP's, from 1 original title, with one side blanck).
The common opinion is the one-side press sounds better, due to minor stress of vinyl surface during the pressing step.
What's your opinion about? Audible diferences?
Rushton, are you on line?..:-))

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Ezio
eziodoc
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rushton
2,445 posts
 
Ezio, without hearing the same mastering pressed both ways, there's no way to know. I'm not convinced that single-sided pressings are better. It's hard to imagine better sonics than coming from the Music Matters Blue Note 45rpm reissue series - and they are two sided pressings.
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jaybo
4,478 posts
 
agree with rushton
thomasheisig
568 posts
 
You can charge more money with that.
We should be - very - lucky, that "they" don't do "1-Song-Per-Side" pressings
stiltskin
499 posts
 
I do have in my possession somewhere in my record shelves a 1-song-per-side pressing.

Dusty Springfield singing Burt Bacarach's The Look of Love.
One side is 33 1/3rd and the other is 45.
Bought it used and very cheap, played it once, sounds very good.

Ezio, I do have a Classic Record 45 rpm box set of one side pressing.
After I had a slight warp cooked out of all 8 Lps I found no better then other well recorded 45 rpm Lps.

However I do like the one side pressing only because I can drop and remove the Lp on the platter without turning off the table's motor speed control each time.
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