Deep Purple – Deep Purple In Rock

it sounds like if im hearing it from the other room, don´t buy it

Killer pressing - Blackmore’s guitar and Lord’s organ practically leap from the speakers!

The reproduction of the cover is perfect, all the details are sharp. There are problems with the sound, it is too quiet. You have to turn up the volume of the amplifier to the maximum to listen to the album normally. In any case, at the moment this is the only quality reissue of this album. It would be great to see BG or KG versions.

This is a horrible pressing. I like the novelty of it being an unofficial Taiwan pressing but it sounds horrible. No high end. It sounds like it’s being played in a tin can behind a brick wall. Surprisingly clean with some background noise but it wasn’t distracting. I paid $8. I overpaid. Bargain bin worthy only.

Great pressing better than my second pressing. Ddddddddddfdddddddddddddddddddxd. Ghhhj gg

My copy has the the A1-B1 matrix number. The "stereo SHVL 777" writing on the right side of each label has a smaller gap than shown in the photo and is more consistent with a 1970 repress.
To my ears this sounds incredible, very dynamic and bright, particularly side one.

Stunning sounding copy. highly recommended. everything louder than everything else!.

Absolutely fantastic! Superb mix, excellent pressing, dead silent. The best sounding copy I have ever owned.

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Rega Planar 6 + Goldring 1022GX

A lot of bass, lack of treble. Modern remaster sounds little better

This is a terrible sounding copy of this album. I originally got my copy in 2022 and noticed the first time I listened to it that it was subpar sounding.

Who cut and who mastered this copy from this entry? How does an original first pressing of this album sound? Is this just a bad job done on this reissue or was the original kind of a low fidelity sounding copy also?

I love the songs and the music from this album. Child in Time is one of my all-time favorite Deep Purple songs. But there is distortion in parts of this reissue as well as Ian's voice seems to be covered by instruments and low in the mix throughout the album. I know it's a stereo copy but it almost has a mono type of sound to it. It doesn't seem like a lot of work was put into making this reissue. And that's a shame!

Not having any original pressings or tapes or even CDs of this album, can anybody recommend an LP version that does sound really great? I'd appreciate it and I definitely would wind up getting it providing the price isn't through the roof.

As I mentioned in the beginning, I got this copy of my reissued LP in 2022. Right off the bat it sounded like a poor production copy. I tried listening to it again later that same year but stopped before I even finished it. I'm listening to it again today and halfway hoping it might sound better. But it doesn't. It's not a recording that I can't listen to. The distortion and subpar sound/mix doesn't hurt my ears or anything like that. It's just that it doesn't sound remotely as good as I think it should or could sound and I really want to find a copy that I can rock out on and enjoy. So any recommendations of a copy that sounds great would really be appreciated!

Bootradr