Unfortunately I do not have an original pressing to compare it to, but the Rhino sounds very nice. The original went out in the great record purge. When I moved 6 years ago I ended up having a big record sale divesting myself of most of the things I had duplicate pressings of and in the process making a lot of friends
very happy.
As for the MoFi LPs, if you are jealous of me having then you are going to hate me when I tell you how I got most of them. I was just getting into High End Audio when CDs first came out and in the mid to late 80s records stores were practically giving away records to clear shelf space for those new shiny silver things. And I was all to happy to help them out. I picked up literally hundreds of audiophile LPs (MoFi, Nautilus and other Half speed mastered LP as well as all sorts of direct to disc albums, Japanese pressings and and other audiophile goodies) for $5 and less. I was talking to the guy at the Elusive Disc table at CAF and told him that the first purchase I made from them was in 1985 and I bought every one of the MoFi UHQR LPs the the exception of Dark Side of the Moon and Sgt Pepper, at the clearance price of only $12 a piece. When I got to the price they guy almost spit out his coffee.
Of course a few years later when all of these pressings were out of print and out of stock everywhere people started to realize what they were and the prices started to shoot up. I certainly would not own them if I had to pay the current prices for them.
As a matter of fact the only MoFi I ever paid more than the original list price for was the Sgt Pepper UHQR. MoFi sold out the entire press run of 500 copies of the Pepper UHQR on the first day it ws available for wholesale ordering and the original $50 price jumped pretty quickly on the retail market. About two years after it sold out I was on a business trip and as I am apt to do whenever I go out of town I checked out the local record shops. What I found was not one, but two copies of the Pepper UHQR priced a $100 each. I couldn't get my wallet out fast enough. The guy at the register looked at me like I was crazy to happy to pay that much for a record, but withing a week I had the second copy sold for pretty close to what I had paid for both copies.
Great finds on the secondary record market are just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
