Neil Young With Crazy Horse – Toast

Cleaned my copy multiple times. Sounds great now, but it did take those cleanings to get there.

I have the CD, hi res and vinyl, vinyl sounds best to me on my system;

Rp8, MA8900 played on

For the most part, this pressing is fantastic. The sound is very open and punchy. Sadly, Side C is let down by what must be a defect on the pressing with some annoying crackle (I've tried cleaning it, but has no effect), mostly hitting in parts of track 1 How Ya Doin'? - which is a shame as that's a wonderful track on the album.

Vinyl is getting worse again unless you pay $$BIG BUCKS for all Analog Pressings / This digital vinyl Noise-Non-Musical - I am going back to good C.D.s They sure sound better

Wanted to buy the LP today the old fashioned way in a downtown record shop, so I fortunately noticed already from the way the gatefold sleeve was folded/from the way the spine looks from the top that is manufactured by this czech-republic pressing plant. This let me skip the purchase, even before I read about the poor manufacturing quality here on discogs. I bought too many records made by this company which sucked in the end. Also my copy from Neil's "The Times" is made there, the first copy I got was like a soup bowl, nearly unplayable, had to return it to Amazon. The next copy was somehow acceptable, but still not really flat. It is actually still quite warped, playing it right now and watching the sad disaster rotating on my turntable while I write this.

Can't understand this: One one hand Neil is known that he wants the best quality for his music (Pono...etc), on "Psychedelic Pill" he claims the best record manufacturing plant in the world is Pallas in Germany, and then he allows this new record being manufactured in...let's say by a company at the other end of the line.
So, hopefully the next batch will be manufactured at recordindustry.com like most of his records from the past years. Until then I stick to my youtube download of the album.

My pressing is just fine. The strange background hiss (e.g on A track 1 or C track 2) is the same as in the digital source (Qobuz) - so it’s in the recording, no pressing defect. Besides that a good sounding record.

Stick with the CD, because the vinyl ain't the best quality.

Great album - Good recording - Top notch mastering - Shitty Press.
Side 3 has a defect.
Ill rather wait for something like this to be pressed accordingly to what a release like this deserves, - And not just have some shitty press as an alternative, because all the plants are unavailable. Ive waited 21 years for it. ‘Could have waited one more year for a proper pressing job.

Great record, poor pressing. Side 3 has a constant crackle in the left channel. Sides A and B, not quiet, but not as bad. Neil Young's records have erratic pricing at best, but they are usually well pressed when they cost more.

Phenomenal pressing, as always with Neil. The vinyl is dead flat and silent. Music is top notch.

Anyone else notice the "L" is missing from "NEIL" on the spine?