[gmku]

I just inherited two more copies of the white album, bringing my total to five LP copies. A friend is giving up her record collection, which basically consists of a few single Beatles LPs and the Beatles Collection box set. The box set is in MINT condition, and the white album has one of the best mastering jobs I've heard yet, aside from my German DMM white vinyl copy.

So besides early pressings of Abbey Road and Hey Jude, she also gave me a numbered copy Apple pressing of the White Album, with posters and pix in really nice shape. Even the cover isn't too bad. It's not an especially low number, higher in fact than my other numbered copies, and you can tell it's a later pressing because they started making the platters a little thinner in late in the run on those first pressings. Nevertheless, the sound is dynamite. She doesn't seem to have played it a lot, and the mastering is excellent.

So far though, I haven't heard an first pressing or reissue that beats my German DMM copy.

And only one of my white album copies doesn't have a poster. They all have the pix, though.

If you're playing a numbered copy, we'll have to compare numbers, too.