Are You Experienced

Great quality product, great seller !

No bad songs on this one. The audio is crisp and clean. Recommended.

Great buy

Great album with great sound. Record was in good condition with superb packing.

This is a classic album. It has been a captivating musical experience ever since it first release in 1967. This has made the lists of top 100 albums and most influential debuts time and time again. In 2005, Rolling Stone ranked 'Are You Experienced' fifteenth on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Even the Library of Congress, in recognition of the cultural significance of this relase, added it to the National Recording Registry, allowing it to live in it's infamy and glory.This was one of those projects I've had on CD for sometime, and needed to; own, hear and experience it on Vinyl.The Vinyl Record is 200grams, t's decent and runs super silent and smooth. It feels heavy and well worth the price. It is an original analog pressing. I had not realized it was not a stereo release that when I purchased it, but it adds to the experience in many ways and allows you to relive it's original state. The cover is the classic cover used on the original North American Release. The cover is just simple, it's super glossy and coated and feels cheap compared to the vinyl record itself. The sleeve inside is just non-static plastic and wroth switching out with a protective paper sleeve. Their are no inserts, lyrics or extras.Soon as it arrived I ripped off the plastic to get to it. I threw it on our turntable and let that thing pump in all of it's might. You know as a music fan, the weight of the songs on this record. You know it's impact. At full volume, you want to live in it's analog experience.

i really like this version. First of all,I like the U.K. album cover better, even though Jimi hated it. Also, on the first disc, the order of the tracksand the absence of singles (which are on the second disc) make it a much more cohesive album than the u.s. version. My only gripe is that there is no "true" Stereo version of this album available. This one was digitally remastered from the the original mono, The more recent U.S. version is remastered in analog, so I am going get that one too. Someone posted that both stereo versions sound better than the mono in which you don't hear the highs and the lows as much. This is the opposite of the old rolling stones albums, in which you hear more of the highs and lows on the original mono than on the "electronically reprocessed" stereo ones that came out after. An all-time great album and a true classic, no matter what version or format you hear....1/12/21- upon further review, i must say that i was mistaken-back in '67, A.Y.E. was realeased in different mono and stereo mixes. This version is remastered from the original STEREO version, not the mono one. the problems is it is a DIGITAL remaster, and it is does sound compressed. The 2014 release (with US Cover and track selection) is an ALL ANALOG remaster, and sounds much better on vinyl. You get surface noise, but the staging is much better

First of all this 2014 edition of AYE is the latest incarnation of this on Vinyl. It's 200 Gram and it's, without fanfare from EH or Sony, an AAA edition.It's quite immediately clear when the needle drops into the first grooves of 'Purple Haze' that this indeed sounds different to the other vinyl editions.For one thing, there is that slight Analog tape hiss, nothing at all intrusive, just a nice reminder that it seems that no digital noise reduction has been used, or overused here.The second thing that pops out of the speakers is a slightly more pronounced midrange-particularly Jimi's guitar and vocals. Their definitely more 'hard' than on previous editions, more edgy and well 'hard'. Not the whole midrange you see, but just the 'tone' of the guitar and vocals. That gives the perception of slightly less of a bottom (bass) end, but that's not really true, it's just a slightly more 'tough' sound.The pressing is nice. But beware of Off Centered pressings for you who have near perfect pitch, as some of these new pressings, especially ones pressed at United or Rainbo seem to have complete runs where either side one or side two are pressed off center. That's why it's nice to buy them from Amazon. Any problems send them back. But if you get two in a row then bag it for a different vendor as a complete run that's ruined isn't going to help us anyway. That's when I buy from Amazon UK or DE which almost guarantee a different, oversees pressing.But all in all it sounds pretty great. Jimi deserves nothing less!Gerard Masters

from vinyl to 8-track to cassettes then multiple cds this one is the most ear friendly. Unless you grew up with the original you might now know what I mean . Anyway can't lose ! ! now if there were just a mono version around somewhere.....