DIRE STRAITS, Love Over Gold MASTERDISK USA 1st pressing Exc- LP FREE SHIPPING

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Dire Straits – Love Over Gold Label: Warner Bros. Records – 1-23728, Warner Bros. Records – 9 23728-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Winchester Pressing Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Rock, Blues Style: Blues Rock A1 Telegraph Road 14:20 A2 Private Investigations 7:00 B1 Industrial Disease 5:50 B2 Love Over Gold 6:15 B3 It Never Rains 7:55 Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Phonogram Ltd. Copyright © – Phonogram Ltd. Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Winchester Published By – Chariscourt Ltd. Published By – Almo Music Corp. Lacquer Cut At – Masterdisk Mastered At – Masterdisk Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix – △2142 Mastered At – Allied Record Company Bass – John Illsley Composed By, Producer – Mark Knopfler Design [Sleeve] – Michael Rowe (3) Drums – Pick Withers Engineer – Neil Dorfsman Engineer [Assistant] – Barry Bongiovi Guitar – Hal Lindes Keyboards – Alan Clark Lacquer Cut By – BK* Mastered By – Robert Ludwig* Photography By – Alan Lobel, Peter Cunningham (2) Programmed By [Synth Program] – Ed Walsh Vibraphone, Marimba – Mike Mainieri (tracks: A2, B2) Vocals, Guitar – Mark Knopfler Capitol, Winchester pressing as denoted by ----◁ etched in runouts. (C) 1982 Phonogram Ltd. Issued with lyrics inner sleeve

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH MIDDLE SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND FINGERPRINTS. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are clearer, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.