Wu-Tang Clan – The W

This seems to be sold out as of now on VMP's website.

I have the cd and scanned the barcode. The only versions of the release that appeared were misprints, but I can’t find the mistake. What is the misprint?

After reading all the hate on this record's mastering, I did a detailed comparison against a lossless stream. While I will not claim this as a sonically great record, the source material is clearly the issue, not VMPs treatment. As with many Wu-Tang records, it seems this was not recorded well.

In my comparison there are times when the VMP version shines over the stream (Protect Your Neck for example). And when the record is dull AF (Conditioner and I Can't Go to Sleep) it's the same.

That being said, IMO this is a great Wu record. It doesn't sit with the ultimate classics like BFCLO, Supreme Clientele, or Enter... but it's in an honorable mentions category. I am guessing this may be as good as it will get for this one.

My copy sounds great on my equipment. Although I wash every new record in the ultrasonic before playing.

Phew, Im super happy with this, the best its sounded to me and personally my favorite Wu album. Smoke vinyl is a plus!

Sounds perfectly fine to me, missing a little low end compared to the CD but it’s nothing major. Doesn’t sound muddy on my setup, it’s not the most dynamic recording to begin with anyway. Happy with this.

It’s difficult to disagree with the comments about quality. However, it’s a compromise of being a record collector that not everything will sound top quality. I’m still happy to have it in my collection.

If you think it sounds bad try listening to the other w pressings, you can only do so much with what you have to work with.

it's my copy or the end of gravel pit and Jah world sound HORRENDOUS?

Was preparing for the worst, but surprisingly it doesn't sound that awkward to me (listening on a 1210SL/VM95ML set up with headphones). Nice separation and clear vocals. As others have pointed out, it's neither dynamic nor very punchy and volume can vary between tracks. The ODB VMP release shares some of these inconsistencies, but does sound a bit better. I suspect it's in the source material, not the mastering.

Overall it may be slightly disappointing but certainly not a dealbreaker. Discs are flat, clean and the VMP-package (as per usual) is on point. I put it on par with the Method Man VMP release - both in sound quality and presentation.