Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy Vinyl Best Pressing

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jcmusic Forum Resident Thread Starter

I was looking through my nicer records the other day and realized I don't accept a copy of this album!!! I have first pressing from the Britain of 1-4 and a few others including a RL copy, And then which copy of this album is desirable or practice you recomend???
Jay
Original Canada SD LP is my electric current fave. The states RL or AT/GP, U.k. Pecko and German tin can all exist expert - depends on lacquer/stamper used.
You need a pressing with all the high and low frequencies intact, otherwise it can sound a flake dull (similar the Classic).
Could you post the matrix details of the Canadian release? Label details would exist handy too i.e record company listed. I'chiliad trying to put together a consummate collection of first press Canadian Zeppelin releases and it would assistance with the search.
I have an 80's Columbia House copy that's quite good as well. I go dorsum and forth between that and the RL.
Can I recommend this thread title be corrected/changed? Maybe something like "Best Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy on Vinyl" or something. At least correct the spelling and spell out "Led Zeppelin" for search's sake.
TLMusic Musician & record collector

My current favorite HOTH is a mid 1970s U.s. Monarch pressing. Information technology's a SD7255 with a 75 Rockefeller label. Both sides are -E cuttings with "STERLING RL" in the deadwax. This copy slightly beats other US and UK "RL" copies including a Us DJ promo. IMO, all the RL pressings I've heard sound skillful.
I have not heard a Canadian pressing. How does it differ from the RL'due south?
rburly Sitting comfortably with Item 9

I agree. I idea this was going to exist a give-and-take of LZ - HOTH.
Done.
jcmusic Forum Resident Thread Starter

At present does anyone here take a clean playing copy????
3 of them, actually.
West High german double RL NM - the best.
Japan pressing bought new around 1977.

Classic Records 200 gm - also bought new.
It's very difficult to observe a clean used re-create - then many quiet parts!
I got lucky with the German pressing - the 2 used U.Due south. copies I take are somewhat noisy.
Let me throw the UK A1/B1 pressing from the UK out there. To my noesis the only Pecko cut of this LP. Most all others (A2/B2 and then forth; Usa cuts) were done at Sterling. I was able to pick up an ultra clean A1/B1 a year ago for a toll...but it's worth every penny in tone and is one of my truly holographic LP'southward. NO QUARTER!!!!!
My copy from high school plays super make clean and tranquility (thank you, high school self, for playing the record only once or twice and recording it to cassette ). It'south an early fourscore's reissue cut by George Piros. I have nothing else to compare it to, just I like it just fine. . .
Now, what'south the best bachelor vinyl pressing that's not fabricated of unobtainium?
I accept a USA Sterling RL and, I've posted before, that it sounds a little fuzzy, specially on No Quarter.
Every bit I'm in the UK, information technology might exist worth looking for a pecko.
I also have the 200g Classic, which is clean/flawless and sometimes.... with vinyl, that'south all you need.
Original RL pressings of Houses aren't that difficult to notice. Information technology isn't like Zep II, where the pressing run was limited. Near of the copies of Houses I've seen in the bins have been RL copies. The Archetype is as well very good--but goes for more money and isn't as expert equally the RLs I've heard--unless you require a dead-silent pressing, where the Classics have the advantage.
While I've had the Pecko issues, my original re-create bought in the Great britain on release and all my friends' were RLs.
For me, the Classic Records 45 rpm is as good as it gets.
I beloved the sound of the United states of america RL. I'm yet looking for a clean ane though only afterward about 4 tries I'm thinking I may give up. My 80's pressing with "GP" in the deadwax is pretty nice likewise just missing some of that lower end oomph that this album needs.
The Classic is ok too but still leaves me wanting...Mayhap someday I'll find a clean RL.
My favorite is an 1841 Broadway RL, Sterling on both sides. I volition have to check the dead wax. I preferred it to the Archetype Records equally well.
All my copies play adequately quiet (the 1841 is very placidity), but the ones I come across in the used stores commonly have some mild warps.
I like the RL; (I think there'due south only the one set up, only I've never really compared a lot of them).
However, the pressings themselves exhibit varying 'fuzziness' probably due to stamper wear and associated manufacturing issues. These can only be sorted out past listening.

So, the moral is you gotta heed and compare. At least this is a common disc.
Where have y'all heard that the RL of II was "limited"? I've heard information technology was pressed in large quantities merely that it's difficult to find on the secondary marketplace because nearly people are holding their copies.
I get a boot out the marker we create on these forums. Until someone declares a pressing "the grail", there are copies everywhere. One time it'southward attained that grail condition, it's gone.

BTW, nosotros did it to Fisher tube amps too. Try finding an old Fisher tube amp cheap now.
jcmusic Forum Resident Thread Starter

Cheers guys for all the replys, now I only have to determine on which one to go!!!
Jay
My double RL re-create of "Houses of the Holy" has some surface dissonance between the tracks. I've been told that this is pretty mutual for this title.
jcmusic Forum Resident Thread Starter
My Canadian copy is a double RL.. pretty sure it is an original