Pharoah Sanders – Summun Bukmun Umyun - Deaf Dumb Blind

Maybe I’m lucky but the copy I’ve got is not off centre, there’s no issue with sibilance or distortion and sounds good to my ears.

I’m guessing these Pharoah master tapes were lost in the Universal fire of 2008. Tragic to think what else might have been in the vaults.

I compared Let us go Into the House of the Lord, Anthology version versus AS-9229-2 from 1972. To be honest there's not this disparaging result that you would expect based on the previous comments. They're a little different, but that might just be based on the different mastering approaches, that's it. Also why would you need to do a needle drop ? Impulse moved to LA in 1969, when some previous masters were discarded. This album was released late 1970 so the original masters are likely the source.
Biggest downside is lack of gatefold.

More off-center junk ed off as a reissue to people who just do not know vinyl. A must to avoid, and will not buy any subsequent Anthology releases.

I picked up this copy as I was too lazy to buy one of the several represses on discogs, and just wanted to find one in the store and for $16 I said hey what the hell. Anthology has done fantastic re-issues in the past, and are legit so I doubt they sourced the material from a copy of low standards. Yes, the vinyl is quiet, and I will agree that for as intense these songs are it is on the muddier side, but just boosting the bass and the trebs a bit made it more enjoyable though it really wasn't terrible to begin. Need to compare this to an impulse pressing.

Damn I really wish they would have done a better job on this and the other two Sanders LPs they reissued. I appreciate that the vinyl was pressed flat and quiet but the sound on this thing is not good. I don't want to say horrible because it seems like Bonati Mastering at least put in some effort to try and make the source material translate well onto vinyl. But the source material was probably a low res digital file because this reissue just sounds muddied and compressed. Who let Anthology Records reissue these gems? Their parent label is Mexican Summer and let's just say I would never touch one of their releases for the horrible poor quality of their vinyl pressings. Obviously the price isn't bad, you're paying $20 or less for the product, problem is the listening experience is excruciating. I really wish ORG or AP could have reissued these and done a quality job on the audio. This release gets a 4/10. Not worth it even at a low price.