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Personally, I'd go for the Technics all day. Those things are built like tanks. The Orbit is made of mostly plastic, and don't even have a cue lever. Don't get me wrong, the Orbit is a great Crosley alternative. But once the price gets up to around $400, you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you don't consider the alternatives at that price range.

I mean, let's just call it what it is. The Kickstarter campaign is just a cash grab and hype-generator. Why not use it? You get guaranteed money up front, and your customers get a discount off MSRP. I don't see how it's so offensive that they started a Kickstarter campaign. They're not forcing anyone to back it. For $450, I'm in for one. I love the PerfectWave 2 (revision 1), and think it's one of the best DACs under $4K. I'm hoping it has the same flavor as the PWD2 in a smaller package. Very glad they went with the Wolfson 8524 instead of these flavor of the month Sabre chips that usually end up sounding a bit odd in treble rendering. A decent DAC, phono preamp and headphone amp in a small form factor ticks all the right boxes for me. I just wish this thing had a line-out because 25W at 8ohms excludes a lot of speakers from the list. Wish I could line out to a power amp because the Sprout won't be able to power either of my speakers (not to mention it excludes all of the folks with powered monitors). As it is, I'll probably pair this thing up to KEF LS50's or Philharmonitors.

Honestly, I don't know. I think 500 is reaching, and that's if you pack the bins to the brim. You'd have to take some out to allow for some room to flip through them. I'd say 350 comfortably, considering you have some gatefolds dispersed throughout your collection.

Ha! I wish that were an original. It's actually the Music Matters reissue -- not sure if that's the 33rpm or 45rpm pictured (I have both). Sounds ridiculously good though. I'd recommend any of the Music Matters series if you're into Blue Notes, and the new 33rpm series has been great (of the six that they've released so far).

So I just moved on the 1st and used this opportunity to rearrange my setup. I had previously been using Expedits, but grew tired of having to tilt my neck to find records. I ended up building a couple of those record store style LP bins so that lets me flip through records. I had a bunch of friends over a couple of days ago, and people couldn't help but flip through records and pull stuff to ask about or listen to. That never ever happened with the Expedits, as it just was too much trouble squinting your eyes to read the spines. Anyway, pretty happy about how they turned out. EDIT: In case anyone is interested, I got the plans from this thread: http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=337891 Cost me under $50 in materials for each bin (the sheet of plywood being $40 of it). Took a couple of hours screwing everything together. I had the hardware store do the main cuts, and did the smaller cuts at home using a circular saw.

Actually, if you go back and read, Fremer says: The raw frequency deviation was significant at around ±.5% but once it was low pass filtered to remove record eccentricity induced wow it was down to very acceptable levels especially for a turntable at this low price. So he also found frequency deviation to be significant, but it's strange that he measured around 0.5% off while the other reviewer measured closer to 0.75% deviation. Both measures got better after a low-pass filtered was applied -- but still speed accuracy is a step behind the Pro-Ject or Audio Technica. But Fremer's review does note that the speed issues are "down to very acceptable levels especially for a turntable at this low price." I don't read that to mean it's absolutely speed accurate, but more like it's good for this $200 price range (ie Crosley). No one is saying this is a bad turntable AT ALL. For the price, it completely blows away Crosley's. And I bet most people can't even notice 0.5% of speed deviation. There gets to the a point where objective measurements don't correlate to subjective listening anymore -- although it doees help to have data points out there to make informed decisions. My main point was that once you start getting to the Orbit Plus price level, you should absolutely cross-shop some of the more established competitors like the Pro-Ject or the Rega RP1. No, I agree it is misleading and the author seems to just want to brag about his equipment. I assume he had $30,000 worth of stereo equipment hooked up to the turntables, but his measurements were taken using an iOS app called Platter Speed. It's the same app that Michael Fremer used in his Analog Planet article as well to test turntable speed accuracy.

Well, judging by the set-up of most folks here, this isn't exactly an audiophile forum. Not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, since audiophile forums have their own set of turn-offs as well. But my point is that this forum tends to attract folks whose main reason for getting into this hobby is simply about collecting the vinyl itself -- not necessarily for sound quality reasons. You can tell this by the plethora of set-ups that are posted with bookshelf speakers sitting directly next to someone's turntable. I'd say most listeners here aren't the most discerning (once again, not necessarily a bad thing).

+1 Pardon if this link was already posted but here is a comparison of the U-Turn against a couple entry level models (yikes at the u-turn speed accuracy numbers):http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-turntable/

No picture disc sounds decent, but you're really buying them to hang on your wall.

Yikes -- I paid 47 bucks plus tax for this. I'm not even a huge fan of this album, but thought the packaging and extras sounded cool. Sucks that my store seems to have marked it up so much.

I bought the original in like February, before I realized that there was going to be an all-analog remaster for this. This is one of my favorite albums in the past few years, so buying the remaster was a no-brainer. It absolutely sounds better. The original pressing seems to be just a flat transfer of the digital master, which sounds no better than the CD or FLAC version. The new version is MUCH more dynamic. This remaster is one of the reasons why I buy vinyl -- to get better sound quality. Whether or not its worth the upgrade is all on you. But if you like the album, and you have decent equipment that can take advantage of the sound quality difference, and you appreciate good sound quality, then you won't regret the $20-$25.

Hey do you still need this? I saw them yesterday and will see them again tonight. They were selling this at the merch booth for 50 bucks. I can grab you a copy if you'd like. Let me know.

Got to Amoeba Berkeley at 7:30am today (3 hours before they opened) and was about 30th in line. The line wrapped around the block by the time they opened though. Ended up getting: LCD Soundsystem Biggie Outkast Death Cab For Cutie CHVRCHES Tame Impala MGMT's first album Disclosure Childish Gambino I also wanted Haim and Gil Scott Heron, but couldn't find those. I'll check out other stores in the area once things die down. As usual, had a great time conversing with the people around me for 3 hours or so talking music and life. Now for the fun part of discog'ing my score!

Release should be May 6th 2014 right, or am I just 10 months late? Either way, STOKED for this news. Whokill truly was phenomenal.

Same here. I bought the deluxe during the Oldies.com sale for $23.But then Oldies sent me the standard version. I emailed them and they sent me a deluxe version right away (which I received a few days ago). Matador did have the deluxe version on sale on their 1-day sale for like $17 or something, but I still ain't mad at $23.

That is pimp. Are those for 7's or 12's?

I love this label. I got turned on to so much new music I wouldn't otherwise have if not for LITA.

I bet it has to do with the running times being too long for each side of vinyl that forced them to re-shuffle the tracklist to fit.

There's also an UO exclusive of the new Julia Holter album as well. Not sure of the color.

Nice! Glad I stumbled upon this thread. I'll probably end up getting all of them, except the DMX, D12 or 50 Cent records (simply not a fan of any of them).

Yeah -- Wilco does such a good job on their vinyl. Nice 180g presses from RTI. Great packaging. Includes CD. They all sound great too.

Yeah, I'm aware of the order of events. The point is that Newbury Comics themselves pulled the last few copies to sell at a markup. We're arguing semantics (although I'd agree with Thom Yorkified's wording of them selling for markup when they were "about to sell out"), but it's sort of a douchey thing to do as a retailer either way.

How is it "technically after they sold out", when it was from the same vendor which means they technically weren't sold out of it?

Good for you!

The terrible sound quality of the black vinyl isn't because of the pressing. The mastering of this album is terrible and compressed to all hell. The CD version sounds even worse than the black vinyl. I highly doubt a colored pressing will improve the sound quality.