Mariah Carey – Charmbracelet

Got this OG pressed variant and I was amazed how great mastering this was made. A must-have for lambily 🥰.

Accidentally bought the US 2021 reissue first, which sounded absolutely horrible and came with flimsy paper sleeves and debris all over the records. Now this European pressing is a difference like night and day. Still not a perfect pressing, but mostly clear sound, clean records, poly-lined inner sleeves. All around decent and listenable. Only some minor distortion and slight sibilance on some tracks.

Be warned, a lot of European shops seem to be selling the US pressing for some reason. I highly recommend getting this one instead if you can find it.

My copy from 2021 sounds very lacking in dynamics and flat. Wish I got one the other reviewers did LOL. Maybe the VMP one sounds better but I use mine only for decoration rn…

A great release and printing for the slipcase card, but the manufacturer seems a little bit too lazy to reprint the cassette inlay. They uses the same standard release with the standard tracklisting but if you're going to play the tape, the Side 1 and Side 2 tracklisting follows what listed on the slipcase.

How does the sound compare to the bone pressing from a few years back?

FAKE!!! picture is from Heartbreaker off Rainbow in 1999 .

Mine turned up with a huge mark across track 2 but fortunately it plays without issue. Well recorded album and sounds great.

brought this copy after the disappointment of the bone coloured pressing and these eu pressings are miles better than the american pressings! no surface noise, no distortion, 180gram vinyl and housed in anti static sleeves. sounds incredible and i can hear more details of the music with this pressing so i’d definitely recommend picking this version up over the lack luster american versions!

beautiful coloured pressing, very unique colour and matches the album perfectly! however these us def jam pressing are not of good quality; the sound is muddy and distorts like crazy, my systems is good and plays all of mariah’s material back with no distortion normally. it’s only an issue i have with this and the orange pressing of me i am.. mariah, both of which are us pressings. i ended up buying the eu standard black copy of this album and it’s 180g vinyl in anti static sleeves, no surface noise, no distortion and much more detail to the music. it’s a shame as this pressing is so stunning but i’ll always opt more for sound quality that aesthetics. still worth owning if you’re a fan of this particular album which is an absolute gem in mariah’s discography

I think my vinyl sounds really decent. Especially for an early 2000s album