Dol Vinyl Reissue Quality

Best avoided or worth a punt.

Dol vinyl reissue quality.

The jacket and the sleeve are high quality and the vinyl looked really nice when i inspected it under normal lighting. But sometimes when the proper one is going for 50 the 11 dol version is. Dol s pressings are always clean and the sleeves are decent quality as well. Dol is a public domain label and they take cd s as their mastering source.

I would avoid them along with other public domain labels i e wax time jazz time jazz wax not now doxxy etc if you want good sound and art quality out of them. Even though it is a grey reissue undisclosed source it sounds better to me on the vinyl system than say the original saturn rip sampled on the sun ra community site. But none of them are going to be as good as a properly mastered version from source material. My thoughts on sound quality of the dol compared with a fully engineered quality master the dol is pleasant but ultimately a little muddy a little like listening to the radio.

I get why they do it they re a lot cheaper than most actual high quality analogue cut reissues although there are some good quality value albums out there via verve stateside amongst others they help get people into some. A quality reissue can offer a great alternative to owning a scratchy original or spending big money on something scarce. I am thinking the price is a bit too good to be true. Reissues is a recurrent topic among vinyl junkies.

Does anyone have an experience of listening to the dol jazz blues vinyl reissues. In this case it was likely an fm broadcast. I just tried listening to my first wax time records reissue of albert king s 1962 debut album the big blues. Dol is a gray market label.

My local hmv currently has a blue note vinyl display 95 of which are dol albums not actual blue note reissues. They press public domain recordings available in europe. I wouldn t go out of my way to recommend a dol reissue unless you re collecting on a seriously tight budget in which case there are certainly worse options in the case of most classic albums but they re certainly better than their patchy reputation would suggest. They are are being offered by a well known high street music shop at the moment they appear to be russian.