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I gotta agree with you on this one, Fred. I've been buying some reissues of both jazz LP's I've never owned, as well as some reissues of rock LPs that I still have the original copies of. In almost all cases regarding the rock records, which are the only ones I have for a frame of comparison, my original LPs sound markedly better than the reissues. I recently plunked down $58 for the Led Zep Mothership LP and was disappointed in that the discs did not sound as good as my original single albums. I also just spent $32 on a new 180 gram reissue of Traffic's Low Spark of High-heeeled Boys and it sounded dark and muddy compared to my original version that I bought over 30 years ago. I thought it was just my imagination, but I guess something real is going on....