Played this on Saturday night and it sounded terrible.

Never sounded that great at home, but over a big system I'd have thought it would have been okay.

Anyone noticed similar, or know why this would be?

Played this on Saturday night and it sounded terrible.

Never sounded that great at home, but over a big system I'd have thought it would have been okay.

Anyone noticed similar, or know why this would be?

Hi i also have a mint one of these & it hisses all the way through so are all white demos like this?

Cheers Daryl

Played this on Saturday night and it sounded terrible.

Never sounded that great at home, but over a big system I'd have thought it would have been okay.

Anyone noticed similar, or know why this would be?

I tried one out in a shop and the quality wasn't brilliant Ian, I was told that the master recording was not that great and most copies sounded poor , I left it

Wulfie

Possibly recorded in Mono, and played on a stereo stylus?

That could create background noise if the needle isnt hitting the groove right?

No, this is a bad recording. I bought one a few years ago, and sent it back, thinking it had been played on a bad stylus. It was only a few days later when talking to a well known record dealer about this record, that he told me that the only way to get one that sounded good was to obtain one on the British release. Apparently all the U.S. ones sound crap....

Thanks for the info.

Just wasn't sure if it was me/my copy.

the promo copies have a terrible hiss all the way through...shame but there ya goes.

Thanks for the info.

Just wasn't sure if it was me/my copy.

RECENTLY SOLD A MINT USA ISSUE

It had a sort of distorted hiss for abou 2 seconds on intro and was fine after that??

Of course, i told the buyer and he's never got back to me

Had me baffled for ages cos there was'nt a mark on it ,just thought it was a pressing fault

No, this is a bad recording. I bought one a few years ago, and sent it back, thinking it had been played on a bad stylus. It was only a few days later when talking to a well known record dealer about this record, that he told me that the only way to get one that sounded good was to obtain one on the British release. Apparently all the U.S. ones sound crap....

sounds about right to me

give me us issue away when i got a uk copy

marvelous tune

No, this is a bad recording. I bought one a few years ago, and sent it back, thinking it had been played on a bad stylus. It was only a few days later when talking to a well known record dealer about this record, that he told me that the only way to get one that sounded good was to obtain one on the British release. Apparently all the U.S. ones sound crap....

I`ll second that,the US copy`s all sound muffled

Dave f...................

Yep above scan was listed as 'Rare Mint Demo" £30 I think it was.

Good to know the UK copy is audible. Need to check out what this goes for.

Philips 1702 Bobby Hebb You Want To Change Me

End price: GBP 67 End date: 2007-05-13

Number of bids: 14

Auctioned at:

ebay

Country:

Great Britain

Apparently all the U.S. ones sound crap....

I used to have a mint US issue copy which sounded superb. I just listened to the soundclip I made from it and it sounds pretty much crystal clear without any hiss. So I guess there are good US copies out there although most have bad sound quality in my experience.

Philips 1702 Bobby Hebb You Want To Change Me

End price: GBP 67 End date: 2007-05-13

Number of bids: 14

Auctioned at:

ebay

Country:

Great Britain

Thats way too much, I sold one for £40 not long ago on British and it was a tough one to sell as well

Yep above scan was listed as 'Rare Mint Demo" £30 I think it was.

Good to know the UK copy is audible. Need to check out what this goes for.

Hi Ian it's a great record to have on UK, plays fine too. The US ones are all styrene but my issue plays ok just - it's just starting to go - whoever invented that horrid material for making records deserves shooting I say. Life expectancy 100 plays.

Edited January 21, 200817 yr by Steve G

Hi,

On reading your post decided to play my canadian vinyl copy, although not mint it plays fine throughout. I think you tend to find this with a lot of canadian releases.

I call it Fuzz, they just seem to fuzz up, have tried a few ways to record thinking that it's energy in the disc pushing the needle out so it's not sitting in the bed of the groove.

Wonder if the stamper was worn out and the kept pressing them.

Unless it's a mains thing. I have wondered about this a few times whether or not it's cause is recording with 110 volts against 240 so no spikes.

The UK records sound crisp and clean from the 240 volts 50 Htzs??

Still Remember The Felling has always done this to me as well and I have had an issue demo with no difference but on a tape from a guy in the US it sounds great, warm and glowing in the midband.

Edited January 21, 200817 yr by Prophonics 2029

After this thread id imagine the UK copy will triple in value??

Alot of the Philips/Mercury pressings suffer from 'fuzz'. (For example see the recent thread on Roy Lee Johnson).

After this thread id imagine the UK copy will triple in value??

Lets hope so

Always rated this

After saying all this about styrene I have some better sounding 7s on styrene than the vinyl issue and they get better in the 70ts.

Edited January 22, 200817 yr by Prophonics 2029

I`ll second that,the US copy`s all sound muffled

Dave f...................

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Hi Dave

Me too i dont collect british but on this one would only have on uk as its a top top tune with mileage left in it

Flanny