LED ZEPPELIN 3 / 111 1st UK PRESS NEAR MINT HARDLY PLAYED
  £   183
  $   242

 


£ 183 Sold For
Aug 19, 2014 Sold Date
Aug 9, 2014 Start Date
25   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
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Original UK Pressing A5/B5 Plum and Red Label Peter Grant Credit 'Do what thou wilt ' and 'So mote it be' in Deadwax
The vinyl looks in perfect condition  , it is flat no warpage at all . It has not lost any shine and there are no visible marks or scratches .
I have played the album twice today on my Linn Sondek LP2 turntable with IttokLV11 arm Nagaoka MP11 cartridge  Gram Amp2 phono stage  Musical Fidelity A1 Amp  Kef Q35i Speakers .
AND I PLAYED IT LOUD !!
It is a wonderful  copy , an incredibly quiet pressing , massive soundstage ,  deep organic bass and precise top end . Two or three times in playback there was a little crackle  but on second playback this appeared in different places so i am certain this is just static 
  I am being hypercritical here , to put this in context i have recently bought the Deluxe 2014 vinyl reissues of the first three Zepp albums and from new they all have more clicks and pops than this original album which by the way sounds better than the new remaster . I have no reservations about describing this as near mint condition i buy a lot of new vinyl that is not so well pressed , surface noise cicks pops etc this record has none of these issues .
I am selling this on behalf of a work mate who did nok know that this was a rare record . her story is that when she was a teenager she babysat and the father told her that he had just bought a record and did not like it and he gave it to her ( i'm guessing he was a headbanger and did not like the acoustic stuff ! )  she took it home played it did not like it and it's been in storage ever since , she does not think it has been played more than a couple of times . Everything i see and hear supports this story .  I don't think there can be a better copy of this album out there .
The sleeve is almost perfect no scuffs or creases the wheel spins great the spine in particular is remarkable , look at the pictures taken with a macro lens . However there is some kind of indentation on the back cover it looks to me as though someone has used the back cover to support a piece of paper which they were  drawing on and the pen has left an indentation on the sleeve . Again i am being super critical , i gave the cover to my wife and told her there was a fault and asked her to find it , she could not see it .Look at the two close ups of Bonzos head , under normal lighting nothing is visible . I am a professional photographer and it was not easy to light the cover to show the indentations but you can see them in the photo the main one is a horizonal line at the top of Bonhams head . 
I honestly believe that you will not be able to find a better quality version  of this album


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