Weather Report – Heavy Weather

I have a really low number of this reissue (# <00040) for my collection - nice and detailed, analytical, but in of musicality, dynamics and sound coherence, my go-to copy is my US OG. I barely play this one.

What a wonderful pressing this is fam.
The talent is dripping from this fine release.

Highly Recommend

Side 2 is terribly distorted. Something went wrong in the pressing of this record

This is an absolutely amazing sounding pressing. Punchy, present, amazing cymbals

Around 2014 I saw a used copy of this reissue at a local record store and spotted 'pearls' all over the grooves indicating non-fill...then saw the Rainbo matrix. I put it back right away. Who knew the human eye could be so good at telling bad pressings!?

NOT all Rainbo pressings are bad, but at the time I was still quite miffed at their catastrophically defective Beatles Abbey Road I got as a gift the year prior (whose side 1 is so poorly pressed it sounds like all the grooves were carved out with a razor). That alone gave me reason to be extremely cautious about them.

Yeah this is a brilliant sounding pressing of a brilliant album. As simepro said, the dynamics of this record will truly blow you away. I haven't heard a US pressing but I would honestly be shocked if there was any version of this album with better instrument separation and punch.

Unfortunately my impression is that this Holland pressing is pretty bad. Sax is compressed and very sharp, drums are weak and Jaco's bass would deserve more body and volume.

Heavy distorsions on side two. It's not a record, it's a kitchen blender muffled with a towel.
Thanks the "Lacquer Cut By – Joe Lambert" & "Pressed By – Rainbo Records"

I suspect that this was remastered at 24-bit / 176.2 kHz and that this is a direct copy of the result. In any case, it's amazing in every respect!

This edition is sublime, the audio quality Is so good.