DIRE STRAITS, Alchemy - Dire Straits Live ROBERT LUDWIG QUIEX II Promo USA 2LP

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Dire Straits – Alchemy - Dire Straits Live Label: Warner Bros. Records – 1-25085 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Promo, Quiex II Country: US Released: 1984 Genre: Rock Style: Classic Rock Tracklist A1 Once Upon A Time In The West 13:01 A2 Romeo And Juliet 8:24 B1 Expresso Love 5:41 B2 Private Investigations 7:16 B3 Sultans Of Swing 10:53 C1 Two Young Lovers 4:51 C2 Tunnel Of Love 14:43 D1 Telegraph Road 13:00 D2 Solid Rock 5:35 D3 Going Home - Theme From 'Local Hero' 5:09 Credits Engineer – Nigel Walker Engineer [Assistant] – Jeremy Allom Recorded By – Mick McKenna Written-By, Producer – Mark Knopfler Notes Recorded at Rolling Stones Mobile, July 1983. Mixed at Air Studios, London, November 1983.  

USA QUIEX II LIMITED EDITION PROMO PRESSING ON TRANSLUCENT VINYL DOUBLE ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL BLACK INNER SLEEVES.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+ WITH HYPE STICKERS AND PROMO STICKER, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  PEN MARK ON FRONT. INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISCS: VERY GOOD+.  NO SCRATCHES, BUT A FEW LIGHT PLAY SCUFFS AND SOME FINGERPRINTS THAT WOULD BE BEST PROFESSIONALLY CLEANED PRIOR TO FIRST PLAY. ONE LABEL SIDE HAS A PEN NAME ON IT.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are clearer, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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