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2nd Dec 2014, 12:43 PM
	Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3747 Points Moderator	Yeah, I thought part of the purpose of 180gram vinyl was to satisfy the audiophile market... along with putting a single album's worth of music (in the case of older albums being reissued which you know would fit on one disc because they've done it before!) on two discs, and in gatefold sleeves. And while I understand the reasoning.... that a thicker piece of vinyl is more stable and the action of the stylus on the record does not reverberate throughout the vinyl and back up into the stylus as resonant feedback (Spreading it over 2 LPs also allows the grooves to be spread further apart so that the ridge of vinyl between grooves is also thicker, and reverb cancelling/absorbing in this way laterally too). It seems, from what people generally say, that there isn't any improvement in sound quality as intended... and in many cases people seem decidedly underwhelmed. Maybe they've just lost the art of pressing adequate microgrooves the way they used to, and it affords the chance to go nuts with the packaging. On my wants list is a vinyl copy of The Bluetones: Expecting To Fly, one of my favourite albums, and they don't seem to have re-issued it yet, but I might just wait for an original copy to turn up in the boot-fairs or Charity shops (Would even pay a good price in a record store for one), but even if it was re-issued in the manner mentioned earlier, I might not buy it if it's paying too much for too much unnecessary packaging and discs for inferior sound quality.