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Definitive Audiophile pressings
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Crabbers
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To be fair music therapy. I’m spinning cuzza the sport caused depression
love you buddy!!! Glad you are enjoying that 
Im drunk and sports depressed man!
Crabbers
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TenderLovingKiller®
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This is what I have too and agree. Mine sounds fantastic. Looking over the runout matrix though apparently one of them is AAA and another is Digital. I think I have the AAA one but I am not 100% sure.For what it's worth, I have this 2016 pressing and it sounds brilliant.
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David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (2016, 180 Gram, Vinyl)
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2016 Vinyl release of "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" on Discogs.www.discogs.com
TenderLovingKiller®
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If it's digital is says on the back on the jacket lower right corner.
dhodo
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Boxset one says that too.
If only I wasn’t crazy enough to never sell it that would be by far my best vinyl investment
I didn’t know the box had went up that much.
Looks like Ziggy Stardust would be another great classic reissue on a super vinyl repress.
TenderLovingKiller®
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See, that is what I thought but then I read that it also depends on the runout. Someone said that if the matrix matches up with the 2012 40th anniversary pressing than it would be the AAA. Like they initially used the same plate but at some point in the run replaced it with a digital remaster.
Honestly am not sure. My matrix runout matches up with this one…
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2012 Vinyl release of "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" on Discogs.
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But I have the sleeve with the little blurb about the digital remaster on it too. So either they stamped some with the AAA 40th anniversary plate before switching em out for the digital remaster and then just used the same jacket for all of them or they used the exact same matrix runout on both the AAA and Digital Remaster. Either way, it sounds pretty good to my ears so I am not overly worried about it.
€1200 last I checked on cogs. Was €250 new.
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dhodo
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The deadwax matches the 40th reissue. I don't think it is accurate.
Turbo
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Looks like that's what I have too then.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Is the 40th definitely AAA then? See, I would say if it is and the matrix matches that then chance are likely that regardless what the sleeve says the LP inside would be AAA, right?
answered my own question. According to the Discogs notes on the 2012 release…
“Heavyweight 180g vinyl pressing.
The vinyl is cut from the original master tapes in a 100% analog signal path.”
dhodo
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According to the sh.tv dudes it is/was.
Can't remember if I ever saw proof. Those words are not on the 40th reissue jacket. The jacket art from the box seems to match the CD jacket art from the CD boxset so I wouldn't be surprised if they just used it for both.
See, that is what I thought but then I read that it also depends on the runout. Someone said that if the matrix matches up with the 2012 40th anniversary pressing than it would be the AAA. Like they initially used the same plate but at some point in the run replaced it with a digital remaster.
Honestly am not sure. My matrix runout matches up with this one…
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2012 Vinyl release of "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" on Discogs.
But I have the sleeve with the little blurb about the digital remaster on it too. So either they stamped some with the AAA 40th anniversary plate before switching em out for the digital remaster and then just used the same jacket for all of them or they used the exact same matrix runout on both the AAA and Digital Remaster. Either way, it sounds pretty good to my ears so I am not overly worried about it.
Just double checked. I went through and bought all the individually released boxset reissues around 2017-2018.
My Ziggy has both the digital language in the sleeve as featured in @Mather 's post, AND it matches the optimal run outs as featured in the @TenderLovingKiller® discogs link.
Turbo
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See, that is what I thought but then I read that it also depends on the runout. Someone said that if the matrix matches up with the 2012 40th anniversary pressing than it would be the AAA. Like they initially used the same plate but at some point in the run replaced it with a digital remaster.
Honestly am not sure. My matrix runout matches up with this one…
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2012 Vinyl release of "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" on Discogs.
But I have the sleeve with the little blurb about the digital remaster on it too. So either they stamped some with the AAA 40th anniversary plate before switching em out for the digital remaster and then just used the same jacket for all of them or they used the exact same matrix runout on both the AAA and Digital Remaster. Either way, it sounds pretty good to my ears so I am not overly worried about it.
Oh, but my matrix matches with this one...
This is all very interesting. LOVE IT.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Right, it’s all quite odd but it’s fun to have a reason to pull a record off the shelf and squint at dead wax runouts.
I was just laughed at for doing this very thing.