New Order – Get Ready

If there is A BETTER opportunity than August 2022 to issue a much needed 21st anniversary repackage of this album, this time spread over 2 x 12" vinyl records - with much beefed up remastered sound, then London/Warner are absolute tools to pass over this chance once again (seeing as last year's 20th anniversary also went unnoticed.)

It appears they are far more interested in repackaging/reformatting and indeed re-colourising the covers and vinyl for JOY DIVISION's back catalogue than they ever bother doing with New Order. Although the recent reissue of the first 6 Factory 12" singles (again not that much cop to be honest) up to Thieves Like Us was at least something ....so why on earth can they not have replicated the studio albums with the packaging that they deserve - staying 100% true to the originals (having failed to do so with PC&L, LowLife and Brotherhood when they were shoddily remastered/reissued in 2014)?

It would indeed seem that New Order's classic era albums always get a crappy deal compared to the Joy Division ones - what gives?

I own both the 2015 reissue and the original copy and… they both sound okay? I would personally say that the original copy is louder but the reissue sounds clearer. Both sound decent and it’s exaggerated to say that the reissue sounds bad. It just needs to be a double LP release.

I own this (the original) vinyl pressing and the 2015 European reissue.

Both are pretty lousy LPs - there's just way too much musical information in the recordings to be squeezed onto a single disc cut as a lacquer. Take a look at the credits: there's a lot of instrumentation, signal processing, Pro Tools, vocal tracking in each of these songs.

If you take a trip over to the DR Loudness War website you'll see that someone has kindly taken the trouble to measure the dynamic range of both of these vinyl pressings - the 2015 reissue is, in fact, slightly more dynamic!

Further, the original pressing has two different Optimal in-house engineers cutting side 1 and side 2. To my ears, side 1 is better accomplished. The reissue was cut by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road - he's no slouch! Both pressings were done at Optimal.

In a blind test I would struggle to tell these pressings apart and I have A/B'd them in my system with both speakers and headphones.

Some claim to hear a very noticeable improvement with the 2001 pressing, but the amount of groove modulation (ie. musical information) than can be cut onto a single disc with over 50-minutes of music is highly limited (unless you go DMM, which these are not). There may a touch of 'first pressing' placebo effect in these claims.

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SPL Phonitor 2 headphone amplifier
ProAc DT8 speakers
Sennheiser HD800S headphones

I can only agree to the previous posts. Tracked this down recently and it was worth the investment.
This is so much better than the crappy 2015 reissue and compared to the CD a different league. Dynamic, vivid, Alive! Way to go.

Listening to this vinyl (2001 original) right now and to me "Turn My Way", "Vicious Streak", "Primitive Notion" and "Run Wild" are the masterpieces, the whole album is phenomenal though, maybe only the silly (but still fun) "Rock The Shack" is not at the same level of other tracks.
Such a great band...

This 2001 first press sounds amazing! Only minor disappointment is that was released with a plain white inner sleeve....

Best RSD 2019 record I bought. Any other recording of this, you’re only hearing half of what’s in the track.

What an amazing release.
The vinyl version is so absolutely rare, but so worth tracking down, it brings the music to life.