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HENRYK SZERYNG AND ARTUR RUBINSTEIN - Beethoven Sonata No 9 & No 5

Original U.K. Stereo LP

RCA (SB-2084)

Scarce UK original pressing in a front laminated flipback sleeve on the Red Seal "Living Stereo" red RCA label with silver text. Still in decent collectable condition.

Side 1) K2RY-1930-2D

Side 2) K2RY-1931-2M

The sleeve is in Excellent + condition with just the odd tiny laminate crease & just a slight touch of top ringwear on the rear. An otherwise solid sleeve with a lovely clean rear.

The labels are in excellent condition with just light spindle wear & some spider marks on each side. Vinyl retains a nice sheen & shows only light signs of being played.

Still in decent collectable condition. The sleeve has no defects, a nice solid example. The labels show light spindle wear & some spider marks. The vinyl has kept its original sheen with only signs of being played. 

Cleaned on an Okki Nokki professional record cleaning machine. Although this is the visually a little lower in grade than the others, playback is nicer. Playback is vg++ to excellent. There is some light crackle on the run in & for a short part of the opening music on each side. Then it becomes very low level & only appears occasionally. Not a bad listening experience at all, but not for the mint audio collectors. Played with a Nagaoka Cartridge with Nagaoka Eliptical stylus through Mordaunt-Short MS 815 speakers. This set up is the most sensitive i have had.

Please note that this grading has nothing to do with the age of the record, we grade all records the same whether they are 40 years old or 4 days old. 

For the last 20 years we have been looking through 100's & even 1,000's of records every week, but we still only pull out a tiny percentage to sell on. 

Condition

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Near Mint

Almost mint.Very minor paper scuffs and very little else can appear on the vinyl. This will most likely have occurred during packaging, or removing the record from the inner sleeve but obviously it had been handled with extreme care.Any flaw should be very hard to see. The cover should look as close to perfect with only minor signs of wear and/or age. Minor impressions to the cover (due to the outer edge of the vinyl resting inside) may be acceptable, however the artwork should be as close to perfect as can be.

Excellent

An excellent condition for vinyl will allow minor scuffs (Scuffs lay on top of the grooves) which are visible but only slightly.The wear should be minimal.The play should be close to perfect as well. Some impression to the cover (minor outer ring wear) but no ink wear. Some slight creases to the corners, but not wrinkled and obtrusive to the eye. The corners can show a little white, meaning slight wear. No seam splits or writing on the cover or taped repairs.

VG++

As Excellent but with a larger number of scuffs, maybe a couple of hairlines (very light scratch that can't be felt) or a couple of marks. Sound quality should still be very close to that of an Excellent record with only minor crackle in quiet segments only, NO scratches that can be felt. Cover as Excellent but there may be a small seam split on the cover, or a very minimal amount of writing like a name written in small writing or a number. A VG++ record should be an acceptable record to live with if you aren't looking to pay the price of a Near Mint copy.