Jimi Hendrix, The Essential Jimi Hendrix, Vol. 2 1979 Near Mint Audiophile Treat
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Aug 29, 2018
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Aug 19, 2018
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Description
Near Mint copy of The Essential Jimi Hendrix, Volume 2, the 1979 Reprise LP which includes many of the artist's most famous performances, including Hendrix's brilliant but controversial Woodstock rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner." The LP is Reprise catalog No. HS 2293.
This LP began with nice, shiny vinyl. This was enhanced by cleaning on a VPI 16.5 record cleaning machine, and then deep-cleaning on an ultrasonic record cleaning system to reduce the amount of groove noise to extremely low levels.
Cleaning a record on a vacuum record cleaning machine such as the VPI 16.5 will remove airborne debris, dirt, fingerprint residue and other environmental contaminants the LP surfaces have accumulated over the years since it was manufactured. You can hear an immediate improvement.
The ultrasonic cleaning goes even further, removing oils, microscopic bits of dirt and even pressing lubricants from the disc mastering process that may be trapped deep within the grooves. This is the sort of debris and junk that other record cleaning systems often fail to remove. Following the ultrasonic cleaning, the LP surfaces will be quieter, perhaps quieter than most other records in your collection.
Ultrasonic cleaning of a vinyl record, especially a near mint copy such as this, removes a lot of grunge and debris from deep in the record grooves, often resulting in cleaner sound, less distortion, blacker backgrounds between notes, quieter vinyl surfaces and a lower noise floor. With proper care (maybe an occasional light dusting with an Audioquest record brush) and really excellent playback gear, you will often hear musical details you never noticed before.
Please note: this copy is missing the 7-inch single of Hendrix's version of the Van Morrison-penned "Gloria." The 7-inch single was nowhere to be found when I purchased the LP. Cosmetically, the vinyl is clean and shiny, as described above, and the jacket is in excellent to NM shape as well, with crisp surfaces, little or no ring wear and just a bit of minor edge wear.
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