Simsy Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Played this on Saturday night and it sounded terrible. Never sounded that great at home, but over a big system I'd have thought it would have been okay. Anyone noticed similar, or know why this would be? Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Daryl Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Played this on Saturday night and it sounded terrible. Never sounded that great at home, but over a big system I'd have thought it would have been okay. Anyone noticed similar, or know why this would be? Hi i also have a mint one of these & it hisses all the way through so are all white demos like this? Cheers Daryl Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Wulfie09 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Played this on Saturday night and it sounded terrible. Never sounded that great at home, but over a big system I'd have thought it would have been okay. Anyone noticed similar, or know why this would be? I tried one out in a shop and the quality wasn't brilliant Ian, I was told that the master recording was not that great and most copies sounded poor , I left it Wulfie Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
pikeys dog Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Possibly recorded in Mono, and played on a stereo stylus? That could create background noise if the needle isnt hitting the groove right? Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Quinvy Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 No, this is a bad recording. I bought one a few years ago, and sent it back, thinking it had been played on a bad stylus. It was only a few days later when talking to a well known record dealer about this record, that he told me that the only way to get one that sounded good was to obtain one on the British release. Apparently all the U.S. ones sound crap.... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Simsy Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 Thanks for the info. Just wasn't sure if it was me/my copy. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pauldonnelly Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 the promo copies have a terrible hiss all the way through...shame but there ya goes. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
NEV Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Thanks for the info. Just wasn't sure if it was me/my copy. RECENTLY SOLD A MINT USA ISSUE It had a sort of distorted hiss for abou 2 seconds on intro and was fine after that?? Of course, i told the buyer and he's never got back to me Had me baffled for ages cos there was'nt a mark on it ,just thought it was a pressing fault Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Phil Shields Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 No, this is a bad recording. I bought one a few years ago, and sent it back, thinking it had been played on a bad stylus. It was only a few days later when talking to a well known record dealer about this record, that he told me that the only way to get one that sounded good was to obtain one on the British release. Apparently all the U.S. ones sound crap.... sounds about right to me give me us issue away when i got a uk copy marvelous tune Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 No, this is a bad recording. I bought one a few years ago, and sent it back, thinking it had been played on a bad stylus. It was only a few days later when talking to a well known record dealer about this record, that he told me that the only way to get one that sounded good was to obtain one on the British release. Apparently all the U.S. ones sound crap.... I`ll second that,the US copy`s all sound muffled Dave f................... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Simsy Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 Yep above scan was listed as 'Rare Mint Demo" £30 I think it was. Good to know the UK copy is audible. Need to check out what this goes for. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Simsy Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 Philips 1702 Bobby Hebb You Want To Change Me End price: GBP 67 End date: 2007-05-13 Number of bids: 14 Auctioned at: ebay Country: Great Britain Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Sebastian Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Apparently all the U.S. ones sound crap.... I used to have a mint US issue copy which sounded superb. I just listened to the soundclip I made from it and it sounds pretty much crystal clear without any hiss. So I guess there are good US copies out there although most have bad sound quality in my experience. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pete S Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Philips 1702 Bobby Hebb You Want To Change Me End price: GBP 67 End date: 2007-05-13 Number of bids: 14 Auctioned at: ebay Country: Great Britain Thats way too much, I sold one for £40 not long ago on British and it was a tough one to sell as well Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Steve G Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 (edited) Yep above scan was listed as 'Rare Mint Demo" £30 I think it was. Good to know the UK copy is audible. Need to check out what this goes for. Hi Ian it's a great record to have on UK, plays fine too. The US ones are all styrene but my issue plays ok just - it's just starting to go - whoever invented that horrid material for making records deserves shooting I say. Life expectancy 100 plays. Edited January 21, 2008 by Steve G Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Kelboy Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Hi, On reading your post decided to play my canadian vinyl copy, although not mint it plays fine throughout. I think you tend to find this with a lot of canadian releases. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Prophonics 2029 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 (edited) I call it Fuzz, they just seem to fuzz up, have tried a few ways to record thinking that it's energy in the disc pushing the needle out so it's not sitting in the bed of the groove. Wonder if the stamper was worn out and the kept pressing them. Unless it's a mains thing. I have wondered about this a few times whether or not it's cause is recording with 110 volts against 240 so no spikes. The UK records sound crisp and clean from the 240 volts 50 Htzs?? Still Remember The Felling has always done this to me as well and I have had an issue demo with no difference but on a tape from a guy in the US it sounds great, warm and glowing in the midband. Edited January 21, 2008 by Prophonics 2029 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest nusha Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 After this thread id imagine the UK copy will triple in value?? Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest noss Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Alot of the Philips/Mercury pressings suffer from 'fuzz'. (For example see the recent thread on Roy Lee Johnson). Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Shsdave Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 After this thread id imagine the UK copy will triple in value?? Lets hope so Always rated this Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Prophonics 2029 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 (edited) After saying all this about styrene I have some better sounding 7s on styrene than the vinyl issue and they get better in the 70ts. Edited January 22, 2008 by Prophonics 2029 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Flanny Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I`ll second that,the US copy`s all sound muffled Dave f...................# Hi Dave Me too i dont collect british but on this one would only have on uk as its a top top tune with mileage left in it Flanny Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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