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Colored bundle here. Love the two Black Wing tracks, and Flenser rarely disappoints so I figure this Heat Dust is worth a chance.

You think just something that anyone can edit so that it can get multiple opinions on things?

That's valid. I'm only one man with very little time, and I think this is a decent start. If you want to start the better version I'd be happy to contribute more detailed info on the albums I have problems with.

No offense to any of the people think this thread is "stupid", but you don't have to read it. In the first post I mentioned that this is based on opinion. I listen to music on a pretty revealing system so really noisy pressings, or flat/boring pressings are not worth listening to for me. This is no ways meant to be the Bible in regards to bad pressings, just people posting opinions and helpful info. I just bought the new Hayden record, Hey Love, and it's a bummer how noisy the pressing is, not pops and crackles, but full on tearing sound that makes it near unlistenable. I'm hoping it's just my copy, but I think it's worth mentioning. Also, I'll be updating the list soon, had a hectic holiday weekend so I'm catching up on some stuff.

Not to mention Discogs prices will be like $75+ in the next couple months...

New song sounds great! Pre-ordered.

I love the Andy Stott and Caretaker stuff. Never been able to get into Burial for some reason. Haven't heard the rest of those... I also like Vessel and Forest Swords, which are in the same vein (to varying degrees).

Disintegration Loops and Melancholia are my favorites.

Everytime I post an update here I realize how bad I need an accountability partner... From the past three weeks... Hayden - Hey Love Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco - Sky Blue Sky Andrew Weathers Ensemble - Fuck Everybody, You Can Do Anything Danger Doom - The Mouse And The Mask Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (Reisssue) Ryan Adams - Ten Songs From Live At Carnegie Hall LP Hop Along - Painted Shut Glassjaw - Worship & Tribute (MOV) Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah Marriages - Salome Songs Ohia - The Lioness Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms Body Songs - Stench Of Exist Balthazar - Thin Walls

This has been spinning non-stop since I got it. It's a little outside what's usually posted here (vocals), but it's SO good. https://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/album/fuck-everybody-you-can-do-anything Vinyl sounds good too.

No problem! This is going to be really useful for me too.

Done

Yeah. Not a huge fan of that pressing either.

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Thanks. I'll check that out. That was based on what someone else had posted. I realize now that super general additions like that aren't helpful. I'll keep the list to specific items. Thanks.

The Antler's Hospice, Glassjaw's Worship & Tribute and Volcano Choir's Repave. There's only a coupe records on Victory that I'd want, and they're a ways down my list. It seems like all those pop-punk labels couldn't care less about quality pressings though. They must assume everyone is listening on Crosely's.

This is perfect guys, thanks. You've already saved me some cash on 3 records I had on my "to buy" list.

Chances are you'll get a Columbia pressing.

I'd love to have a running list of bad/disappointing pressings to help me avoid buying stuff that will never get any play. I'll keep the first post updated. Keep in mind, this is all based people's opinions - ears and gear may vary. 30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie (Picture Disk) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent // Sort of like Capitol's Amnesiac pressing where it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't sound good... it just sounds off. Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Hot topic repress white) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (rhino/atlantic reissue on clear red vinyl) BadBadNotGood - BBNG2 // There's a whoosh throughout the entire damn album. Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing Balance and Composure - Things We think We're Missing (1st Pressing) Bayside - Acoustic Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Bon Iver - Bon Iver // Very flat sounding. No dynamics. Bon Iver - For Emma and S/T // Both are noisy and flat. circle takes the square - decompositions City and Colour - Sometimes Cky - The Best Of // Sounds really flat. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To // Muddy Deafheaven - Sunbather Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone // very noisy across all sides Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) Fall Out Boy - Pax-Am Days (RSD Black Friday 7" set) fand island - self-titled Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) Glocca Morra - Ghoul Intentions // Hard to pinpoint but it sounds like it just wasn't properly mastered for vinyl. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Goldfinger - S/T by SRC // Horrendous Green Day - Kerplunk (reprise records reissue) heavy heavy low low - turtle nipple IIOI/Everyone Everywhere - split // Sounds so lo-fi and scratchy. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC // Noisey and quiet. Kyuss - Sky Valley // Quiet and Flat La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom (first press) La Dispute/Touche Amore - split // Maybe that's the whole point because the digital copies sound bad too. Let live. - The Blackest Beautiful Lydia - Illuminate Melvins - Hold It In Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News // Thin sounding Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Mr Bungle - All the pressings by Plain Muse - First 4 albums MxPx - Life In General (White by Tooth and Nail0 My Chemical Romance - Three cheers (first press) Nile albums - up to Those Whom The Gods Detes Norma Jean - The Almighty Box Set // sounds weird and the songs have shitty gaps in between songs. PBTT - Close 7" // side A hardly listenable Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You (Cola) // Noisy and very flat Pulp - His n Hers (MOV Reissue) Radiohead - All Columbia pressings Radiohead - OK Computer (Columbia) // I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. Rosetta - Flies To Flame (Highlighter Green) Saves The Day - Saves The Day (Black 1st Pressing) Secret Machines - Secret Machines Silversun Pickups - All // Sound like garbage, especially Swoon and Carnavas Small Brown Bike/Cursive split 7" Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (Plain Recordings) Spooky Black - Leaving EP Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (SRC's green marble) // Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (All pressings) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (grey marble) 30 Seconds to Mars // A Beautiful Lie (Picture Disk) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent // Sort of like Capitol's Amnesiac pressing where it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't sound good... it just sounds off. AFI - The Art of Drowning // bad skip during Days of the Phoenix Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Hot topic repress white) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (rhino/atlantic reissue on clear red vinyl) BadBadNotGood - BBNG2 // There's a whoosh throughout the entire damn album. Balance and Composure - Things We think We're Missing (1st Pressing) Bayside - Acoustic Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (Matador reissue from 2011 OLE 296-1) Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Bon Iver - Bon Iver - Very flat sounding. No dynamics. Bon Iver - For Emma and S/T // Both are noisy and flat. circle takes the square - decompositions City and Colour - Sometimes Cky - The Best Of - Sounds really flat. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To // Muddy Deafheaven - Sunbather Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion // pressing defect during Saviour that causes it to skip/loop. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone // very noisy across all sides Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) Fall Out Boy - Pax-Am Days (RSD Black Friday 7" set) fand island - self-titled Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) Glocca Morra - Ghoul Intentions // Hard to pinpoint but it sounds like it just wasn't properly mastered for vinyl. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Goldfinger - S/T by SRC // Horrendous Green Day - Kerplunk (reprise records reissue) heavy heavy low low - turtle nipple IIOI/Everyone Everywhere - split // Sounds so lo-fi and scratchy. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC // Noisey and quiet. Kyuss - Sky Valley // Quiet and Flat La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom (first press) La Dispute/Touche Amore - split // Maybe that's the whole point because the digital copies sound bad too. Let live. - The Blackest Beautiful Lydia - Illuminate Melvins - Hold It In Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News // Thin sounding Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Mr Bungle - All the pressings by Plain Muse - First 4 albums MxPx - Life In General (White by Tooth and Nail0 My Chemical Romance - Three cheers (first press) Nile albums - up to Those Whom The Gods Detes Norma Jean - The Almighty Box Set // sounds weird and the songs have shitty gaps in between songs. PBTT - Close 7" // side A hardly listenable Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You (Cola) // Noisy and very flat Pulp - His n Hers (MOV Reissue) Radiohead - All Columbia pressings Radiohead - OK Computer (Columbia) // I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. Rosetta - Flies To Flame (Highlighter Green) Saves The Day - Saves The Day (Black 1st Pressing) Secret Machines - Secret Machines Silversun Pickups - All // Sound like garbage, especially Swoon and Carnavas Small Brown Bike/Cursive split 7" Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie Box Set (1st US Pressing )(Fixed on 2nd pressing) Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (Plain Recordings) Spooky Black - Leaving EP Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (SRC's green marble) // Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (All pressings) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (grey marble) Tame Impala - Lonerism (2014 Repress) // Very noisy. That Pianos Become The Teeth - Close RSD 7" // unbearable amount of noise, destroying two excellent tracks. The Antlers - Hospice // Distorted, flat, unlistenable The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis (OG Deep Elm Pressing) The Cure - Seventeen Seconds // Despite being a MOV release, it doesn't sound good, "A Forest" hisses through) The Fugees - The Score // Quiet and noisy. Very noisy. And expensive which makes it worse. The Menzinger's - OTIP The Wonder Years - Greatest Generation (1st Pressing) The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (single LP press) Thursday - War All The Time (grey with smoke/marble) Tigers Jaw - S/T (5th press | orange/white starburst) Title Fight - Hyperview (Grey) Turbo Fruits - Echo Kid // Major skips across both sides Twitching Tongues - In Love There Is No Law (1st Pressing) Twitching Tongues - In Love There Is No Law (First Press) Volcano Choir - Repave (Clear) Warpaint - The Fool // This one isn't terrible, but it's still disappointing that such a lush and nuanced album sounds so... flat. Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright // sounds like someone threw a blanket over my speakers Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

I'm rocking that Rogue Sphinx right now. It's powering some of the Wharfedale Denton 80th's. I love it! Really great amp, super versatile. But I agree with the others suggesting a cartridge upgrade first. I'd go Dynavector or Nagaoka before I'd Ortofon. I have a Nagaoka MP-500 on my Clearaudio Concept. When I was auditioning stuff I listened to a 10x5, a 2m Bronze, a 2m Black and the MP-500 on both the Clearaudio concept and on a Scout 1.1 and in the end went with the Concept/MP-500 setup. It's a great pair. BUT when I was listening on the Scout I definitely preferred the Dynavector and Nagaoka over the Ortofon stuff.

Killer job, Mesi! Most listening spaces and setups stress me out just looking at em. This is perfect.

They do! Some of my favorite pieces are their ltd releases. Also, just listened to Moon Ate The Dark II in it's entirety. It's perfect! Really excited to get both of these records.

Yup. Totally worth it.

Yes. Built in.

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