> -----Original Message----- > From: Guilherme Menegon Arantes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 June 2006 06:01 > > What is your impression on the sound quality of the recent > Trax represses (TXR*) ???
I've bought the odd one or two of these (= 3 so far) and some aren't so hot, some are OK > Are they much better (i am still looking for decent quality > pressing of Virgo Four)? Any special miss or hit in terms of > press/sound quality? Alas I can't remember which one struck me as poor but as 2 of the 3 I've bought are the Virgo and Virgo 4 chances are it was something by them. Check when I get home. The pressings seemed OK to me but then I'm not a connoisseur of these things (= I don't know my bottom from my elbow) > AFAIK, NEWS at Belgium is behind these, and they said the > releases were remastered (from which sources???)... Yes it is them. The sleeves say some are remastered where original material is available but in other cases all they've been able to do is record from the previous vinyl and attempt to clean it up. > -----Original Message----- > From: v12 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 June 2006 08:31 > > but they never mention the sources A little unfair if you read the above, at least they've owned up to bodging some of them - though how honest that is I don't know, they might have bodged 99% of them and exaggerated how many they've got original material for I suppose. > which sais everything > about their target "audience" > no thanks. Well as I say I was happy to grab some of these, guess I'm just stupid liking music and all that, I'll never earn my collectors badge of merit. > trax? hell yeah - a good way to cash on. If someone's making cash out of this while the original artists don't see a penny I guess that gives them a certain "authentic Trax repress" feel ;-) kind regards The Late Francis Wooff
