Deep Purple – The Book Of Taliesyn

Does anybody have experience with the different pressings on CD of the first three albums?
I'd like to know what issues to get that sounds closest to master. Preferably not Brickwalled/Compressed , EQed unnatural.
Have they maybe done flat transfers for these albums ?

This is BOOTLEG edition from the 70s! The labels on vinyl were rough, like damaged and it offered very poor sound quality! Original Tetragrammaton label were smooth, almost glossy and the sound was great - better than on original UK Harvest press! Original vs counterfeit covers are hard to recognize, but bootleg ones were little washed.

Why is "The Book Of Taliesyn" listed ahead of "Shades Of Deep Purple"? Shades was their first studio album and came out before Taliesyn.

I have an early pressing on Tetragrammaton Records with silver inner labels. Is this not one of the THINNEST sounding recordings ever? I’ve owned this record for YEARS and have hardly listened to it because it sounds like it was mixed in a tin can. I actually like the songs but WOW. I’m just baffled by the poor recording and/or mastering.

Original owner here.

I just pulled this out after lord only knows how many years. First play at standard VTA settings for pressings of that era and it sounded like garbage. Reset the VTA up +.4mm and a world of difference. Vocals were clearer, bass and especially the drums made sense. The tympani drums on Hard Road and especially on Kentucky Woman actually sounded like they should, given the state of the art in the day. This puppy is thick, could be mistaken for a modern 180 g. Just for S & G's I put it on my scale. 162 grams. The final VTA lift was .75mm side to 1mm on side 2. Went from a nice try to a nice job.

This is a really great album that you can listen to all the way through with so many of the original versions of what have become solid parts of their work and in concert staples. This is the album that kept me interested in Deep Purple and what was to come next.

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Doesn't anyone think this one might be a bootleg back from the '70s? The silver label paper on the pics has all these roughnesses! The genuine Tetragrammaton labels were made of good, plain paper, weren't they?

DCT had 4 cutting rooms at this time and many inscriptions indicated the room so that future releases could be cut in the same room. Three and four were most similar with Scully Lathes and Westrex 3D Cutter Heads and were often interchanged. Room one was strictly mono and room two was in a constant state of experimentation.

I just bought this and it is as described here, it is still in the shrink-wrap with a $1.99 price sticker from Sutton records, I paid $10.00 for it, a great find!