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Picked it up in Argentina this week. US pressing without the grey Warner background paper labels.

Sometimes you've got to go to CD for a better sound. Mixed in house by Warner, this is before it had proper titles and before the album was sent to Masterdisk and was mastered a little too hot by Howie Weinberg. Personally I think the commercial CD and vinyl versions sound good, but this in my view is spot on and the better version.

I currently use an Onkyo 5.1 system with pre amp, it's loud as sin. Have you set the pre amp up properly...or is the pre amp any good?

Real name: Namothy. Favorite Bands: Faith No More, dEUS, Super Furry Animals, The Breeders, David Bowie, T-Rex... What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?: Ha! Hobbies (outside of record collecting): Mountain biking, reading, gaming. Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!: No. Random things you want us to know about you: I collect Faith No More records, tapes and CDs.

Pristina by Faith No More which closed the album and their careers. The whole tour and the album was centered around the ieea of a funeral and the death of something good, the band split following the tour and it's hard to imagine that it wasn't planned. Pristina was a perfect track to end their last album. I know they reformed to tour, but the idea is still great. http://youtu.be/vAsVa768r8E I'm watching you You shall weep no more It's your last breath of air These walls won't keep them out They'll keep you in But who's going to protect you? Who? In every flower bed In every marriage bed I'll be with you I'm watching you

Have you decided if you're going after the numbered or the promo version of Mofi's Angel Dust?

Here are the direct links to the photos I took for the Discogs submissions of the Ipecac and the Domino versions of the remastered issues. Possibly nsfw. Original outer gatefold with blond and bike: http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1791518-1243585306.jpeg Ipecac inside gatefold: http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-2841676-1307195377.jpeg Domino inside gatefold: http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-2753377-1299587211.jpeg Ipecac full set of images: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2841676 Domino full set of images.: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2753377

There's actually three. UK red vinyl. UK and European on standard vinyl. USA on standard vinyl. The red vinyl sounds fantastic and prooves the coloured vinyl critics wrong as it competes very well with the US standard vinyl, they're virtually indistinguishable. Not heard the standard (black) UK/European version but I've been led to believe that it's from the same stamper as the red vinyl version.

This week... It's a CD, I know, but I love this thing. http://www.discogs.com/dEUS-No-Title/release/4275478 Scarce 7" copy of Faith no More's 'We Care A Lot' with red/orange face labels. http://www.discogs.com/Faith-No-More-We-Care-A-Lot/release/4334133

Might go back top Fez soon.

If it's just for home, try a pair of Grado SR80i http://www.whathifi.com/review/grado-sr80i http://www.amazon.com/Grado-Prestige-Series-Stereo-Headphone/dp/B000G3LCQC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362179935&sr=8-1&keywords=grado+sr80i these are not pretentious pretenders, these are the real deal and make those AKG's look like kittens in a lion's den, and the AKG are good.

Seriously, these are really diverse, good for home and on the move.

If it has Warner Bros. Records labels and comes with a 7" on black vinyl of Bungle and the Secret Chiefs 3 then it;s the US. If has a Slash Records label, it's the UK. Slash Records / London Records UK pressing. Warner Bros. Records US pressing. Plain Records US green reissue. A great example of a poorly mastered CD which cannot be fixed is Clutch's Pure Rock Fury.

I was fortunate enough to get the US version on Import back when it was released. I also love it's dynamic. A friend of mine had Billy Anderson sleeping on his couch while he was in town mastering the Charger album 'Confessions Of A Man...' they spoke at length and Anderson says it was the best project he ever, ever worked on and its clear why. That was not analogue either, but the pressing is great. It just goes to show that a good vinyl engineer (Anderson had nothing to do with the vinyl btw) can make magic. Vinyl mastering and indeed mastering in general to me is a damned art. I also own the Plain versions and I don't know why I've held on to them. I had no idea who Plain were and I thought the thing might have surpassed the WBR version. I never heard the Slash/London UK copy. I could have bought it but I already had the US version on import.

The Loudness war is largely a red herring. There are clear exceptions but these examples are so extreme that they don;t really mitigate the argument they try to present. Mr. Bungle's California is mastered quite lowy and contrary to it being a good recording with a dynamic range, it has a very very poor low end, muddy mid range and the high ensd is very restrained,, everything sits quite muddily around the mid range and there's absolutely no dynamic range to really speak of. DR measurements are a bit of a joke and cannot be taken seriously when the thing just sounds so poor. I would avoid all the Plain recordings of Mr. Bungle Records. A good comparison is Disco Volante both Warner (US) and the Plain reissue are mastered on the same sort of level, the difference is that the Plain version simply fails to deliver. Not only does it lack range, but the vinyl is so poor that a mint copy hisses like a lisper being raped and they cut the record in such a poor way that instead of cutting it over 2 records, they did on one, for whatever reason the original doesn't suffer for it, but with plain, you get terrible distortion and bleed, unforgivable for a recording mastered so low. The thing is woefully underwhelming. The CD source is not the issue. The issue should not be hot versus cold as DR seem to insist, it should be about using a hot mastering to compensate for poor mastering with no range as this is worse than what Plain did as they didn;t even try to disguise the problem (they couldn;t because they had to compress the hell out of the album). Regarding the QOTSA LP, Ray Staff's cut is excellent I agree.

Yeah, it's on AAA. I'd love to see this gang do the Faith No More albums. I wasn't fond of the Mofi remaster itself but the pressing was top quality. I'd like a new remaster, one that doesn't turn the vocals way up, increase the pitch and turns the guitars down. Mofi went the wrong way about it in my view. I'd like to see a good cutting engineer handle it and for Record Industry press it on 2xLP with the bonus tracks and for the first time ever with the lyrics fixed. I don't think Rhino who are in charge of the catalogue at the moment would permit that - it's a pity. Also I'd like to see King For A Day get another vinyl outing. in fact a well made box by a good pressplant all remastered including their first album would be most welcome. If Record Industry applied the same finishing skills for it as they did with Pearl jam's Binaural or MSP's Lifeblood then the thing would off to a good start.

http://www.amazon.com/AKG-K450-Premium-Foldable-Headphone/dp/B0028N78C0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362060070&sr=8-1&keywords=AKG+K450 You can use these with your hifi or out an about and for $69.00 reduced from $180+ they're a bargain. here's their what hi-fi review: http://www.whathifi.com/review/k450

I would, they're very pleasant and helpful people. I've dealt with them a number of times.

The same plant also made the original European version of Dirt. It's also quite excellent.

I wouldn;t get your hopes up just yet as the reissue of Generation terrorists went to the lamentable GZ Digital Media. I was surprised that it sounded as good as it did albeit towards the end of ach side things started to get very ropey with quite a lot of distortion. If I am right and their next plan is for a Gold Against The Soul reissue, it's likely to go to GZ as well and the next album of course is THB, so it'sd not set in stone but it looks like MSP are now looking towards the Czech republic for cheap reissues rather than to Holland where the quality is more assured. Not quite, MOV use Record Industry. They are quite excellent at what they do. Plain used Rainbo who have a very shaky reputation. Each pressing I own where they've been involved have been awful.

They (Record industry / Sony-CBS Haarlem / CBS Haarlem) pressed the vast majority of 1990's European vinyl for Sony labels and even back then., on standard as opposed to heavyweight vinyl they made good with what they had. They've always had the highest standards and can teach the GZ and GZ proxy (Pirates Press) a thing or too. I have both the red limited and the standard black editions of this and they sound roughly the same. I wouldn't say they're bad but suffer for trying to put too much on each side. It was an example of trying to have your cake and eat it. I can live with the sound, it's not awful but you are right, it's not comparable with other Record Industry pressings. They could have dropped the etching and spread the thing out, or they could have ditched some tracks, I think losing the etching would have been worth the sacrifice all in all. If you know what you're looking for, you'll find a lot of quality pressings by this plant without the MOV tag which commands a slight premium and you can grab some very nice sounding records without the inflated price, here's some lists: http://www.discogs.com/label/Record%20Industry http://www.discogs.com/label/Sony/CBS%2C%20Haarlem http://www.discogs.com/label/CBS%2C%20Haarlem