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The Doors Vinyl Box [180 Gram Vinyl]
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The Doors
Release date: 2008-04-22
LP Record
Album Rock, Box Sets (Audio Only), Hard Rock, Pop, Pop/Rock, Proto-Punk, Psychedelic, Rock, Rock & Roll, Rock / Classic Rock, Rock/Pop, United States of America
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The Doors Vinyl Box [180 Gram Vinyl]
Date undefinedI have read some of the complaints other customers have registered and all I can say is they must be hard people to satisfy. I have no complaints- the sound is sharp and warm, the album covers look great and the faux black snakeskin box cover was the perfect finishing touch. I have listened to all the albums and have not detected a single defect. Well worth the purchase price.
The Doors Vinyl Box [180 Gram Vinyl]
Date undefinedOn a good vinyl system you can hear grain and lack of musicality.
Digital grain and antiseptic sound that lacks what brings us to vinyl, really wish they hadn't gone through a digitization stage.
I'm not sure they had to have a digital stage. If they "had to" it means equlization had to be done which, of course, means that precious history has been lost to deteriorization. Too bad.
Worth buying to have all the lp's in perfect condition. But not the sound that delights vinyl devotees.
There are better (more musical) original issues to be had (and the hunt is part of the fun).
The Doors Vinyl Box [180 Gram Vinyl]
Date undefinedThis collection is everything I could hope it to be: A quality vinyl remastering with reproductions of the original packaging. Despite the negative comments of a few reviewers, I find the sound quality to be superb. It isn't perfect, but this is the best I've ever heard this music sound.
If anyone was to re-issue the Doors catalogue, who better to do it than Elektra founder Jac Holzman, original Doors engineer Bruce Botnick and master of mastering Bernie Grundman? I have read all the criticisms but if the critics were to read Bruce Botnick's liner notes they would be more forgiving.
This was not a simple re-mastering, but a restoration project. Some of the tapes were deteriorated which necessitated the use of digital equipment in the process. Sure, it isn't 100% analogue, but I certainly can't tell any difference.
The choice to remaster at half-speed, as Mr. Botnick explains, had a tradeoff. The sound quality is superior throughout the frequency range, with the exception of the lowest frequencies. The 1960's vintage equipment was not able to reproduce those frequencies accurately at half-speed so there is an apparent lack of low end. I did A/B comparisons with two of my original albums, Strange Days and Soft Parade. The low end on this remastering was as good as the originals - it just wasn't as improved as would be expected with a re-master. All things considered, they made the right choice to master at half speed.
Ideally, I want to hear a remaster sound exactly like an original release played on audiophile equipment. Isn't that why we listen to records instead of CDs? We want to hear it like it was originally meant to be heard. This collection is an accurate reproduction with an improvement in clarity.
My copy of the first album, side two, was defective. I contacted Rhino by e-mail and got a quick response. I was told I would be sent a replacement copy for that one record along with a 7" copy of the Light My Fire single. I believe they have, or are in the process of, correcting un-sold copies, which may explain why they have raised the price about $20.00
The individual album covers are exact copies of the original album covers, possibly digital photos of the originals. The color is too dark on a few of them but I'm being picky here. They aren't as heavy as the originals, but they need to be lighter to fit into a box set. The inner sleeves are quality static-free sleeves. As a nice touch they included reproductions of the original paper sleeves over the static-free ones. They even made the LA Woman album cover with the clear front and yellow sleeve inside. They only missed one tiny detail: The original Waiting For the Sun cover had the slot on the left so the record would be inserted from the inside of the cover instead of on the right.
I've played each of these records on a quality system through and through, over and over and over. I think they are as close to perfect as anyone but a critic could expect. Buy it now.
