Everything But The Girl Eden 1984 blanco y negro Eur. Press NM

Description: Everything But The Girl. Eden. Beautiful Textured Outer Jacket. 1984 European Release. Pressed In West Germany (see details below). Jacket has "W" (WEA Records Ltd.) Embossed Into Right Rear Bottom Corner. High Coverage Play Testing Performed (see vinyl grading details below). Item Details Manufactured By: Record Service Alsdorf, West Germany Recorded: January, 1984 At Power Plant Studios, London, UK Mastered At: CBS Studios, London, UK Pressing By: Record Service Alsdorf, West Germany Original Issue: June 4 , 1984 This Issue: 1984 Label: blanco y negro 240 395-1 Runout Deadwax Matrix Numbers: Side 1: (stamp:) R/S Alsdorf 240395-1 A (etch:) XX TimTom cbs Side 2: (stamp:) R/S Alsdorf 240395-1 B2 (etch:) XX TimTom CBS Was bought new by this seller many years ago and now offered from his private collection (you have absolutely known provenance). Has had just a few plays only on an expertly setup high-end audiophile turntable, arm, and cartridge. Has never been exposed to heat or tobacco smoke and always stored vertically in a specially designed record cabinet (Rackit brand) to prevent warpage. All vinyl sides are cleaned on a VPI HW-16.5 record cleaner. I use the Audio Intelligent "One-Step" formula that requires no rinsing and leaves no residue. It is alcohol free and uses enzyme agents to remove pressing mold-release compounds, fungi & bacteria, finger oils, and many other environmental contaminants. Made with laboratory-grade pure water(50X purer than distilled water). I neutralize residual static charge from both vinyl and new inner sleeve with a Milty Zerostat. I wear nitrile surgical gloves while cleaning and play testing to avoid any chance of transferring finger oils to the vinyl. Very sensitive play testing was performed straight off my Ayre P-5xe fully balanced phono preamp over Sennheiser HD 600 headphones using a Schiit Audio Valhalla 2 tube headphone amp fitted with NOS Soviet Voskhod matched tubes (see last photo). Track list For track listings, please see my attached record label photographs. I never post "distant" photos nor the so-prevalent type with the LP sticking halfway out of the jacket in my listings. I take close-ups under photo lamps so you can see nearly everything I describe in the jacket grading. It is virtually impossible to show the true vinyl condition/grade from any photograph. After cleaning I use very bright light and close visual inspection on each side to assign "visual-only" grades. However, I always perform play testing with thorough coverage on high resolution equipment to assign play grades. Grading Details Note: Grading LPs by text characters is subjective and at best are only a guide as no two used records are of exactly the same quality. I do not use "EX" grades as my VG+ is right below "NM-." I never sell a "G" play grade and very rarely ever sell a "VG" play grade. Please, refer to both my photo evidence and detailed descriptions to judge by YOUR OWN grading standards. Questions are always welcome. Play quality is personally most important to me so vinyl visual qualities are separately graded and described in detail for your complete assessment. Outer Jacket Inspection/grading: NM/NM Both sides are in exactly the same condition as new because of personal affection for this album and my desire to keep it perfectly preserved. There are stickers on the front face that some may think should cause a down-grading but to me NM should reflect very close to original "new condition." Vinyl Visual Inspection/Grading: NM/NM Both sides still look absolutely perfect. Play Testing/Grading: NM+/NM+ Extensive play testing was performed after visual inspection (continuous written notes were taken). I listened to the beginning, middle, and end of each track for a few minutes on each needle drop. When the track width was noticeably greater I took more play samples to get good coverage. I also listened to all lead-in, lead-out and transition grooves between each track. Some tracks were played all the way thru when digitizing my favorites to 96k/24-bit WAV files. This allowed me to go back and re-check some of my notes on digital playback in ProTools. Here is rundown of each side from those notes. Side 1 Play The record lays as flat as a pancake on my platter (I do use a clamp). The lead-in grooves were very quiet, Right away the audio quality is impressively clear with wide frequency range, detail, and harmonic richness. Stereo depth and width seems near-perfect. This is maintained all through both sides. Zero noise on all samples of this track and a very quiet transition grooves. T2 had zero noise. T3 was recorded so play coverage was 100%. Just one near-inaudible HF "micro-tick" in the middle. Loved the trumpet solo closing out the track. My notes said: "perfect, the best track on the whole record." T4 was dead quiet. T5 was recorded, the longest on the side. It too had 100% zero vinyl noise. A great track with spare instrumentation and I was glad to grab it on my last chance. T6 is the shortest track and had zero noise. The side was indistinguishable from brand new with vinyl performance so high I had to rate it NM+. Side 2 Play This side also layed perfectly flat. All tracks had zero vinyl noise on all play samples and all transition grooves were very quiet. T1 was an instrumental jazz piece. T2 and T3 had the same audio excellence as on S1. T4 had spare instrumentation featuring Tracy's vocals up front. The sax solo makes you believe he is right there in your room. I noticed the percussion on T5 had very fast transient edges. T6 featured Ben on vocals. The songs slowly fades out into dead silence. Equally deserved an NM+ grade from me it was so impressive. Some of the best music, recording, mixing, and mastering combined with the highest pressing excellence from the German Alsdorf plant will impress any serious vinyl collector. Packaging Records are placed outside the jacket to protect against seam splitting. Original inner sleeves (if still present) are included separately. All records will be placed into new MFSL-style "rice paper" plastic sleeves. Any original sleeves may be holding onto some dust and if paper lined could even be abrasive. This will keep vinyl surfaces clean and well protected during shipping and ultimately during buyer usage. Outer jacket is contained in a new clear polyethylene protective sleeve. Sent in high quality record mailer with cardboard stiffeners and all corners double-taped. Shipping Shipping will be via USPS Media Mail for a flat charge of $4.75 per single album sale. eBay keeps raising the rates for Media Mail but I still don't pass all of that or any costs for shipping materials on to the buyer. I do try to reduce additional costs for my customers. A combined shipping discount is available on multiple sales completed on the same day ($4.75 plus $0.50 for each additional LP). If you do buy more than one LP on the same daydo not pay immediately but wait for my all-combined with the discount applied to your total.eBay does give you the option to "Request an invoice from the buyer," but this option is not available on the eBay mobile app. A discount for the combined items will show on that invoice. Then, once payment is received, the items will ship.

Price: 25 USD

Location: El Dorado Hills, California

End Time: 2024-11-12T14:44:37.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.75 USD