NapalmBrain

I don't think I'd feel good paying anywhere close to market price but if you want to make a trade (discogs in the sig) hit me up!

I didn't intend it as a slight at anyone, entering raffles helps too! I just did it to ease my conscience because I do not feel safe going to protest during a pandemic in a city where the cops are using excessive force. I think it's awesome that people are donating to all these causes who have the means to do so

Nice i just made a direct donation there myself today ( I felt I was being self serving for the RFC one and wanted to make a seperate donation where I wasn't potentially getting anything out of it), going to need it with all the arrested protesters many of whom are peaceful.

Rhino is way less hit than miss these days, often AAA releases cut by Kevin Gray that best originals for 60s/70s albums. for the price especially, that T. Rex - Electric Warrior Rocktober is incredible Plain is shit, as is all that scorpio stuff (runt/4 men with beards/pan am/doxy/waxtime/dol) I agree MOV has great in house mastering they cut in the NL and only have a DMM lathe (they have cut from lacquer but they have to have it sent over, the Hendrix and Dylan come to mind) so they are often high rez digital but there is a common misconception vinyl cut from digital is bad, most would be hard pressed to hear a difference from a well mastered record cut all analog from from tapes to one where the tapes were transferred to high rez digital. If the source material is quality, it comes down to mastering you can't always put lipstick on a pig but it is the last step of the artistic process and the first step of the manufacturing process.

the 2016 Bernie Grundmen mastered Dark Side is really great for the price, but as he mentioned the 2nd and 3rd pressing UKs are supposedly top dog (I think first pressings have some issue on Time). The Japanese pressings are very nice too, as is the 30th anniversary and the first MOFI.

$15 is not bad, that is the best solo album I forked out $12 and it's a little noisier than I'd like the lighting in that shop makes it really hard to see light scratches. I have all of her solo albums including the one with the strawbs, I still need Fotheringay I should not have passed on the one at Euclid in St, Louis. Everyone needs more Fairport! It's a shame most people start and stop with Nick Drake when it comes to british folk and there is so much amazing music from that era to explore

I had a pink rim what we did on our holidays on order get cancelled by a seller and refunded, placed the order right before lockdown. it's no worries I'd have really liked it but it's understandable my silver/gold a&m is no sonic marvel but @$495 I'll pass haha. Unhalfbricking is an RL cut so outside of superior plating the us versions are not half bad. I don't know if the tapes exist or are still usable , but I agree it's like printing money. If they did a mono and stereo they would get double from many

please I've got to move 4 of these I sold 2 on release and got overzealous and ordered 4 more I should have known only 2 people cared

Super weird that Stratosphere is pretty much gone, and my distro still have a whole box of Orange Contemporary Movement. I mean I probably prefer the first, but the second album is more consistent. Bummer I missed the box but happy to have grabbed the colored single LPs when I did. Do I need this I only kind of liked Calm and have never heard this project

I know 4AD reissued it and I own an original but I'd love to see Gene Clark "No Other" get the audiophile treatment like double 45 one step but it's too obscure to be considered for something that prestigious. others include: Fairport Convention/Pentangle/John Martyn (or is the abbey road half speed of solid air already a benchmark, have not heard, have an original US island) Zombies - O&O Howlin Wolf - Rocking Chair Etta James - At Last could see Chad (AP/QRP) doing Esquivel - Four Corners Of The World (was my first Exotica record, lost it in a breakup) I'd like to see Chad continue the golden age of classical and tackle more living stereo and do merc living prescence and Decca's most sought after pressings and I doubt It would ever get done as it's common and from 1980 but this is my favorite brahms double concerto and the sound quality is just ok like most angels compared to their emi counterparts, I should just buy an import pressing and give someone else my angel https://www.discogs.com/Brahms-Perlman-Rostropovich-Haitink-Concertgebouw-Orchestra-Double-Concerto/release/4267038

Still got the Indie Splatter variants left for less than that aqua if anyone still needs one (and free shipping within the US on orders $35 & more) https://vinylren.com/used-heartwork-indie-splatter/

I did, the imaging was incredible, one of the better sounding records I've heard, he had really nice dynaudio speakers too. I don't think I need to pay 10 times the price right now though as the 2016 is reportedly also sourced from the tapes and cut by Golden Mastering which does have the capabilities to cut all analog.

That's awesome those old japanese pressings were dead quiet. Wish I had the money at the time for Blood On The Tracks, I have around 50 Dylan records and none are audiophile pressings and that or Highway 61 Revisited I would pay $125 for the listening experience

I'd like to hear Surfer Rosa again but my initial reaction was it sounds too cleaned up, most people share your opinion. ORG Nirvana reissues are excellent Still haven't sprung for a musicmatters yet. I am loving the Tone Poet series I just picked up Introducing Kenny Burrell today, have not heard but read positive reviews and originals are a fortune I would agree and to think I put the pink Sea Change back in the rack and bought a couple crappy RSD titles I don't even own anymore instead. Fool am I. The standard reissue is almost as good I did a side by side at my friend's as he owns both and he sold me the standard reissue for $10

who the hell is that into DGD!?!?

I hope it's a surprise 7" and then it's just the Kane entrance theme, go out on a meme

I was alerted to this but grabbed one of the teals since I missed the band official drop. Came out to $42 shipped with exchange rate

was it worth it? I don't mind paying for good sound $125 seems a little out of reach, I did snag Cowboy Junkies from Analogue Productions and it was $55 but worth every penny

Honestly the Cows "Sexy Pee Story" is nothing special either in terms of sound, but it does look really cool and there is no retail pressing so glad I snagged it a couple months back. Not like I'm looking for audiophile on noise rock records though

The German Horzu is the one to get for a true stereo MMT or so I'm told. I have the mono reissue and that's as good as it gets to me. The MOFI Abbey Road is quite good actually, the ex got that one though. I don't blindly hate early mfsl and no matter what that japanese JVC vinyl was dead quiet, but have you heard the Sticky Fingers? It's unlistenable to me. The Emmylou Harris, Dark Side, Steeleye Span, Blondie, Frank Sinatra box are all winners. The newer stuff is just consistently good, I'd like to hear a one step without forking out the money. There are a glut of audiophile labels now and it's a better time than ever to be a collector. AP/MOFI/Intervention are doing amazing things. Blue Note with the Tone Poet series and labels like Rhino/Real Gone on the cheaper side are making incredible sounding records even for those that don't have ten thousand dollar systems. I know I don't (my whole setup is maybe worth $2000-2500)

A well mastered record sounds good no matter what, the revived MOFI has consistently quality records whereas the original MFSL was generally hit with a few misses (Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers and Beatles MMT come to mind) some versions are definitive

I miss you all, I remember the good old days when I wasn't working and going through some serious shit and you all helped with the loneliness and we were churning out pages everyday. I hope you are all hanging in there, I'm still slinging records in KC, Just chilling with the cat and spinning records most days throughout this madness

Boo I missed the limited variant, oh well copped the /300 and grabbed the last Makthaverskan 7" I still have been meaning to grab, seemed fitting since I saw them together several years ago

really great mastering job, dynamite sounding record and no issues on the indie red either. I'm not surprised the mastering engineer has done great work for Daughters, Austra, Mars Volta, Bjork, Hotelier and many other highly praised albums on these forums

This was an easy pre-order my distros did not have it on day 1 so I take no chances with Fiona. I hope When The Pawn follows shortly so I can complete the LP collection