Donald Fagen-Sunken Condos

Rebbi: I agree with your opinion on the quality of this recording. Fagen/Dan recordings are usually better than this. I'm wondering if anyone has heard the Japanese pressing?

Lately I've been wondering about alternative pressings generally. I try to buy my favorite artists on Japanese pressings whenever I can, because the clarity is just better across the board. But I feel like the best CDs in my collection (3 or 4) were pressed in France. These seem to have the highest resolution.

Does anyone have an opinion on international pressings? If I could, I would pursue French pressings more often. But now I think all European discs say "EU."

Hmmm, maybe I'll start this as a new thread.

I have the Japanese CD, sounds good but I've never heard the domestic version.

My "Condos" CD sounds fine. Lucky I guess...

I don't know, saying Donald Fagen released a bad sounding recording borders on blasphemy! Not to mention practically an impossibility based on his well documented obsession with superior sound quality! I think what I said earlier about the music also pertains to the sound quality. Fagen's set the bar so high some people expect their systems to levitate or something!;)

Fagen's bar is set incredibly high

he lowered it a little with the way over emphasized bass on the Morph the Cat vinyl

Condos is stellar in the cd, and especially on the white translucent vinyl