Paul Simon – Graceland

A very nice pressing. I enjoyed every minute of my listen. The album is quiet, has nice separation, the clarity is amazing. No complaints from me.

Great album, great looking vinyl, great sound. full 5 stars

First time I've owned this. Great album and a lovely sounding clean pressing.

Mixing Western pop to African fusion was the masterstroke – it helped put a further chink in the apartheid system in South Africa & showed the world that the faceless "blacks" of South Africa were real people with talents, hopes, aspirations & feelings & opened up the richness of African music to western youth. A timeless masterpiece of ethno-folk-pop/rock that mixes wonderful rhythms, melodies, harmonies, instrumentation & stories to create good music that speaks for itself. Dust off your djembe & join in.
An immaculate album.

Have the same release, but my back insert has CRC above the WB logo.

I am going to go against the grain here on this one. While it sounds great, I think my original mint pressing is not only quieter (by a long shot since I think RTI is overrated), but has better clarity is some parts, and punchier. It sounds great, don't get me wrong, but I am left at this point in deciding if I want to listen to my original or the remaster that's noisier. I feel I shouldn't have to make that call if it's as good as everyone says, but unfortunately I do.

Rega P10
Apheta 3
Aria Mk.3 preamp

Would it be correct to assume that since there is no DMM in the deadwas of this version that they didn't use DMM?

This CD Is The Purest I Have Ever Heard Graceland Sound And It Sounds Phenomenal. Not Too Loud Or Too Quiet And Perfectly Detailed With Plenty Of Ebb N' Flow To The Music. One Of The Best Albums Ever And Up There As Paul Simons Magnum Opus Alongside Bookends.

Yeah, gonna echo the wows here. One of the best sounding records I own, right up there with the 2015 Grundman remaster of Brubeck's Time Out. Immersive and transporting soundscapes from one composition to the next. Wonderful clarity—which could imperil lesser musicians to being outed as not quite masters of their crafts—is no traitor to Simon and his costars. It is astounding to hear like you're in the studio with them—particularly seated between the percussion and bass sections, given their special clarity and precision.

Corny as it sounds, all I could ask for is for the chimes and bells and other incidental flourishes and filigrees to be brought forward a little bit, to be a little more twinkling in their brilliance. Like shooting stars in Simon's constellations of sound.

5/5 from me.

I think that you can't hear a better version of this album. Unless a 45 RPM UHQR would be made but apart from that I think that this is the most astounding version available.

A good alternative would be the We Are Vinyl pressing, which was the one I had before, but the problem with that pressing is that it has very hot treble and a bit of sibilance. But it does come close to this pressing but it doesn't achieve the clarity and air between instruments like this one.