Real Gone
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Real Gone Music (2) are by far the 2 most frequent series, see list below for the other series). |
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Melon Music |
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Real Gone Rock 'N' Roll |
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Edited 6 years agoOf course that I can't judge on ALL reissues of this label, as I have not listened to all them.
But I can assure you that the ones I own have the same sound quality of the original CDs (they were probably copied from those ones).
With the big advantage of low price, and small space to keep them.
I had purchased all CDs from my favorite artists (although I still prefer my original LPs).
Now, when I bought these Real Gone reissues, I simply replaced my previous CDs (and sold them for a good money!) -
Real Gone is yet another grey market public domail reissue label. Most of their releases are multi-disc jazz and blues compilations. Sound quality of these box sets is consistently bad. Tracks are being sourced from who knows where. Many of Real Gone's releases are low quality needle drops made from worn out records. These titles have lots of audible surface noise, pops, skipping and groove distortion. Their digitally sourced compilations are just as bad. These titles are overly compressed and very harsh sounding.
Mastering is substandrd. Clipping is a big issue with many of these releases. Some discs won't even play properly due to weird mastering glitches. For example some tracks listed on the album covers are either incomplete, completely missing or replaced with silence.
I've heard approximately 20 of Real Gone's multi-disc compilations, and every single one of them had some issues mentioned above. IMHO Real Gone must be one of the worst currently active reissue labels out there. I'd suggest you to avoid these releases.