DIRE STRAITS, Dire Straits USA 1st pressing LP [with Sultans of Swing]

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  Dire Straits ?– Dire Straits Label: Warner Bros. Records ?– BSK 3266 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Jacksonville Press  Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Rock Style: Blues Rock, Acoustic, Classic Rock Tracklist A1 Down To The Waterline 3:55 A2 Water Of Love 5:23 A3 Setting Me Up 3:18 A4 Six Blade Knife 4:10 A5 Southbound Again 2:58 B1 Sultans Of Swing 5:47 B2 In The Gallery 6:16 B3 Wild West End 4:42 B4 Lions 5:05 Companies, etc. Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Jacksonville Recorded At – Basing Street Studios Credits Art Direction – Alan Schmidt Bass – John Illsley Design, Artwork – Hothouse (2) Drums – Pick Withers Engineer – Rhett Davies Painting [Cover] – Chuck Loyola Photography By – Paddy Eckersley Producer – Muff Winwood Rhythm Guitar – David Knopfler, Mark Knopfler Vocals, Lead Guitar – Mark Knopfler Written-By [All Selections] – Mark Knopfler Notes Cream Label w/lines and address in perimeter.  Recorded at Basing St. Studios, London, Feb. 1978.  For Charlie Gillett.  -Warner Bros. Records Inc., a subsidiary and licensee of Warner Bros. Inc., a Warner Communications Company.  -?1978 Warner Bros. Records Inc. ©1978 Warner Bros. Records Inc. Made in U.S.A. Printed in U.S.A.  All selections published by Straightjacket Songs LTD. All rights administered by Rondor Music (London) LTD, controlled in the U.S. by Almo Music - ASCAP.  

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A:    o   BSK-1-3266 JW3#2  /  SIDE B:   o   BSK-1-3266 JW-2.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVE[S] VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

     
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