Alice Coltrane – A Monastic Trio

A really really good pressing. Piano and drums sound like they’re in the room with you.

There's good news, it's not all bad.
I was concerned base on the reviews and I hesitated to open this record because of the negatives I was hearing, but someone said they had success doing a good cleaning.

For me the dirtiest records I get I resort to using a microfiber cloth because it gets the job done of getting into the grooves. That did it and it lifted a veil of whatever crap was on there. A wet velvet brush did nothing...honestly it sounded horrible as the record went on.

I figured what's there to loose with crap like this at this point. A wet microfiber left it feeling like an open recording.
This is all manufacturing DIRT you're all hearing.
It was deep in there.

The record sounds good and clear once deeply cleaned.
Again like I said I had to have the microfiber dig into the groove and everything improved.

Might have been the worst example of a new dirty record I've ever received.
The stylus kept picking little bits of crap off it on the first spin.

Qobuz
File Name | Format | SR | Word Length | Max. TPL | LUFSi | DR (PMF) |

01-01 Lord Help Me To Be | .aif | 44.1k | 16 | +0.03 | -15.47 | 12 |
01-02 The Sun | .aif | 44.1k | 16 | +0.02 | -18.82 | 15 |
01-03 Ohnedaruth | .aif | 44.1k | 16 | -2.20 | -15.99 | 10 |
01-04 Gospel Trane | .aif | 44.1k | 16 | -1.55 | -15.16 | 11 |
01-05 I Want To See You | .aif | 44.1k | 16 | -1.41 | -16.20 | 11 |
01-06 Lovely Sky Boat | .aif | 44.1k | 16 | -1.82 | -15.82 | 10 |
01-07 Oceanic Beloved | .aif | 44.1k | 16 | -0.26 | -15.10 | 10 |
01-08 Atomic Peace | .aif | 44.1k | 16 | -0.47 | -16.53 | 11 |
01-09 Altruvista | .aif | 44.1k | 16 | +0.00 | -15.13 | 12 |

Number of EP/Album Files: 9
Official EP/Album DR: 11

I paid $14.99 new from Amazon on 01/04/25. I ran it through my Humminguru and that helped a lot. No surface noise. It's quiet and flat. I'm happy to have it in my collection.

the early titles in this series hand screen printed covers. Is the cover on this screen-printed?

This is one of the releases here that I wish one of those European out of copyright companies would just take the damn CD, DMM it, and put it on clean flat vinyl like Wax Time does! Literally the only thing Third Man has produced that I own and is reasonably decent is their Trout Mask Replica (black vinyl)... when they started doing all these sort of reissues, going back to The Melvins "Stoner Witch", it was "oh cool I'll be able to get some of this nice stuff on vinyl again"... and it's like no, no it's not nice to get these crappy poorly mastered noisy vinyl copies, even the packaging seems substandard, blurry... I understand there may not be much of a profit margin on some of these more obscure recordings but what's the point if you're going to just put out lousy product? I'm telling younger music fans, just get a CD player... the Don Cherry "Art Deco" release maybe one of the worst sounding records I've ever heard... to each their own, your mileage may vary, Etc...but this isn't even funny. This specific recording is no great shakes sound quality wise but if you spin the most recent CD edition, why would you bother sticking this on the turntable??? This particular one and the Don Cherry are my final straw which is why I'm venting here... all these major corporations are going to shoot themselves in the foot regarding the so-called "Vinyl Revival", it's not just Third Man...look at the care and quality Gotta Groove, Corbett vs Dempsey, et al are putting into their releases compared to these huge corporations stamping out garbage...I was just reading something about a lot of these newer vinyl collectors not even taking the records out of the sleeve and they don't even own turntables... in that case, then this would probably be a really nice lifestyle accessory to have on the wall. Okay this old man's done yelling at a cloud now...

Mine is flat, centered, and quiet. I wouldn't call this an audiophile release, but it doesnt sound bad at all.
At $30, this is a no brainer, if you enjoy the album.

the reissue sounds good, good job on this one. I recommend.

Sure it’s a bit flat. But it’s not that bad. The ‘verve by request’ releases are a bit half assed, but we all knew that. I’m glad to have an affordable vinyl of this release.

Quite acceptable release for me. The sound isn’t as bad as I expected based on all the reviews (too much negative hype). There is some mess in the top end, but still it sounds pretty good.
It’s hard to find one of the earlier releases nearby (for acceptable price in addition), so I have no complaints about this one.
No surface noise on my copy, looks clean and shiny. Antistatic inner sleeve for the plate, which is always good.