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CITY AND COLOUR - THE LOVE STILL HELD ME NEAR

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Mono explanation via TMR. 

Grabbed the Doctor VI. Gonna have a cleaning session this weekend. 

As far as “even new” records benefiting, I would strongly encourage cleaning new records because god damn these plants are dirty and paper residue seems to be worse these days too. I got 8 records in last week and two had some of the worst paper residue I’ve seen in 10+ years — both recent presses. I open and clean all my records upon receiving them, and put them into new sleeves and bags. I am interested in getting a more thorough machine to clean them though, cause I’m just using a cleaning kit with a cloth and spray, and brush before spinning. Looking at the Big Fudge manual cleaner since it’s on sale for under $50 right now. Watched a few videos of that vs ultrasonic vs $4k machine and doesn’t seem to be much difference. I’ve cleaned my records in the ultrasonic machines before and they work pretty well, but it’s a production to clean them plus takes 15 minutes per run (5-10 records at a time). Decisions decisions.  

Same. Easy choice for me. 

Would you mind embedding the photo? I can’t see it cause I don’t have IG. 
 
Never mind. BV updated their site. 

Purchased. 

Everything in the family room. Wife didn’t want a tv in the living room, but I convinced her to let me have my set up and records in there. Records on one wall, set to on perpendicular wall. Obviously she’s into Xmas. Haha. Slowed down on records the last 2 years since how damn expensive they are, so I’ve been really loving my network player + Roon. End up listening to way more music now which I love. Even taught the wife how to use it so she uses my set up which I’m all for. (Excuse the mess. We got married a week ago so there were way too many people in my house. Haha.)

Awesome collection. Love all the paint colors too. For your set up, see a few posts back about my suggestions for speaker placement. Make that killer collection sound even better.

Everything in the family room. Wife didn’t want a tv in the living room, but I convinced her to let me have my set up and records in there. Records on one wall, set to on perpendicular wall. Obviously she’s into Xmas. Haha. Slowed down on records the last 2 years since how damn expensive they are, so I’ve been really loving my network player + Roon. End up listening to way more music now which I love. Even taught the wife how to use it so she uses my set up which I’m all for. (Excuse the mess. We got married a week ago so there were way too many people in my house. Haha.)

Hell yah. Love your store so that’ll be perfect. Thanks. 

I’ll echo my speaker placement post. See above. Will help a lot! 
https://uturnaudio.com/pages/speaker-placement — here’s a helpful link. 

What’s your price range? My immediate suggestion is an SVS SB-1000. So much bang for your buck, and I’m sure you can catch a good deal coming up this week. If you have a large space / bigger budget / etc. let me know. But given your comment I really think that would be the best bang for your buck and round out your set up. Plus there’s an app where you can set it up and tweak; super user friendly. 
 
One piece of advice I can give for your set up is also speaker placement. I know it’s easier said than done as your room might not allow it, but if you can get your (badass) Def Techs on stands that would help a lot. It’ll bring them to ear height, and you can get them away from the wall a little (if the room allows). Your soundstage will improve dramatically. If not, maybe try experimenting by putting them on the outside cubes of the third row and see what that sounds like. Toe them in a little (stands or not) so they’re just angled slightly to the outside of each respective ear at your listening position. Def Techs are already killer (I loved my SM55s — recently gave them to a buddy as his intro to hifi) and I remember how much they opened up one I got their positioning right. But I do agree that they could use a sub to help round them out. But yah, just play around and see what happens. Took me 15 years to get a room where I could even place speakers the right way, so I totally get if it isn’t in the cards, but I bet there’s a few minor tweaks that you could do that’ll help.

That’s rad that you have a killer collection after such a short amount of time. If 23yr old me has all those I’d never leave my house. Haha. 
 
I’ll suggest these stands: Monolith Stands — they’re on sale too. You can fill them with sand / cat litter or whatever and they’re perfect. 
 

I've been collecting since January 2014 (when I was 14 years old; I am now 23). If you were to count every box set by the individual albums they contain, and include the stuff that isn't in the photo, I estimate I've got a few shy of 2k. Unwound are one of my favorite bands, admittedly I double-dipped on a couple of the more recent pressings too.
As for the speakers, it's kind of a makeshift setup until I've got money set aside for new speakers (and/or better speaker stands than a couple of Uhaul boxes from when I moved into this place a few months back). They're triangulated to the center seat of my couch.

Now we need a S/T repress not through SRC. 

Now we need a S/T repress not through SRC. 

Now we need a S/T repress not through SRC. 

It was on Sargent House’s Twitter, as well as Brooklyn Vegan (as far as I’ve seen).

The speaker placement on that subreddit makes my eyes roll so hard. There’s a reason I haven’t looked at it in years and it’s even worse now; the shit that gets upvoted, my god. 
 
Very cool RATM, my dude. 

The speaker placement on that subreddit makes my eyes roll so hard. There’s a reason I haven’t looked at it in years and it’s even worse now; the shit that gets upvoted, my god. 
 
Very cool RATM, my dude. 

You’re officially banned from the post thread for taking this long. Mogwai is where you start, not where you end. How dare you. 

You’re officially banned from the post thread for taking this long. Mogwai is where you start, not where you end. How dare you. 

You’re officially banned from the post thread for taking this long. Mogwai is where you start, not where you end. How dare you. 

You’re officially banned from the post thread for taking this long. Mogwai is where you start, not where you end. How dare you.