i would be a bit cautious buying these without hearing what youre likely buying. in my somewhat considerable experience with japanese records, both reggae and non reggae, it has been obvious they are of extremely high quality in pressing and graphics/printing. very rarely do you run across an unplayed copy with so much as a tick audible on either side. and no offset labels!
the problem often is: they lack bass. like really lack bass. and thats across the spectrum but particularly on bass heavy music like reggae, there is no bass, there is very little warmth, and the music sounds very sterile. some of those traits are coveted by audiophiles, but to reggae listeners they are not going to go over well.
i have a number of japanese reggae LPs including most of the ones mentioned in this thread and quite a few others. for example uhuru's dub factor, sly and robbie taxi compilations, bob marley releases including trojans compilations, wackies issues, etc and they all suffer the same fault: no or very weak bass.
but for pressing quality they cannot be beat. but if that was all we were interested in we would be buying exact digital copies in the form of CDs.
one love
jah bill
