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    Following up on the hot take below, I'm listening to the AP 2 LP 45 Mono of Pet Sounds and... honestly it's nothing special. The songs are great but the mastering is flat and kinda crunchy, sounds like I'm listening through a transistor radio on the side of the local speedway in 1966 and my black leather jacket is getting hot but it's cool because I've got my smokes rolled up in my sleeve...
    Mather
    Watching Hereditary, then I think I'll listen to Flamagra in the dark... I figure as long as I'm not gunna sleep I might as well go whole hog.
    Mather
    Well, after doing 175 pushups every day since March I've become very adept at pushing various things approximately 3 feet away from myself... repeatedly... ad nauseum. Still useless at everything else though...
    Mather
    Holy flaming Jesus on a pogo stick... YOU GUYS... I just got my system dialed in so well that even that horrendous Titanic Rising pressing sounds glorious... this is awesome.
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    Mather
    Mather
    Yeah I dunno, it's confusing as hell. I mean either way it sounds great now with the 10 db drop going into the AVR. But it would be nice to know where the fault lies, or if it's fixable without the attenuators.
    kvetcha
    kvetcha
    I was wondering if maybe the Aria was calibrated mostly for Regas own carts, and maybe the 2M Black was coming in too hot, but then I discovered that Rega's MM carts have an output of 6.8-7.2mV, which is...very high.
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    Yeah like, I can't figure it out. I initially thought it was a fault with the ADC chip in the Arcam peaking too easily. But now I just don't know where the issue was coming from. For the Rega to be outputting that seemingly low, and the Black to be several MVS below the Rega carts, but the AVR was still popping at 4 RMS. Makes no sense to me.
    Mather
    So Mofi is doing "Train" now? Are you kidding me? Drops Of Jupiter might be one of the most insipid songs of the past 50 years. I honestly thought this was a joke at first, I don't know who picks Mofi's albums for them but dear god make it stop.
    Mather
    Out of commission all day today... Barely eaten, slept most of the day. Now I'm cooking chicken wings and exercising at 1130 pm... Sure body... okay I guess, if you say so...
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    I mean the wings are baked... because you know... gotta be healthy when you're exercising and pounding wings at midnight... OBVIOUSLY...
    Yer Ol' Uncle D
    Yer Ol' Uncle D
    Late night chicken wing aerobics require some resting up for proper form.
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    Honestly I don't know what came over me. It's probably the extreme heat and lack of sleep that's caused it. But 175 pushups later and 1.5 pounds of wings and potatoes and I'm RARING TO GO.

    ...buuuuut seeing as it's now 2:08 a.m. I will just be going to bed... Which is super boring. I'm sure I'll have a great sleep while my body attempts to digest all this...
    Mather
    Whoever invented the flat head screw should be tied to a giant flat headed screw of his own design and then slowly, inefficiently and inaccurately screwed into a giant block of very dense wood.

    This would please me very much right now.
    Mather
    Hey uh... Did anyone happen to get an extra copy of that Moon Shaped Pool "Love Record Store Day" release today? I set my alarm but still missed it...
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    Sadly was one per person everywhere. I got one from @Joe Mac 's local store but seems like they don't have any left. I set up a notify message on rough trade though so will tag you if I get an alert!
    Joe Mac
    Joe Mac
    @Mather this is all the shops in on the Love Record Stores thingy. I checked the 10 or 11 I really like and have enjoyed buying from but everything seemed sold out at them...

    I don’t know if it’s worth your while checking through them all, but just in case

    www.loverecordstores.com

    Record Stores

    To ensure that an opportunity to highlight the work of record stores at this critical time remains in place despite the postponement of Record Store Day, we will throw a day-long event featuring over 130 record stores, on 20th June.
    www.loverecordstores.com www.loverecordstores.com
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    I know this is likely not news to most of you, but the 2013 Deluxe 3LP pressing of Postal Service "Give Up" is absolutely incredible. Both the package and the pressing and the mastering are phenomenal.
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    Question, has anyone seen whether there are black vinyl pressings of RTJ4? Or right now are they all 2 LP pink or the 4 LP pink and yellow?
    Mather
    Watching "Us" with all the lights out in the middle of the night with headphones on and halfway through my dog suddenly jumps up and starts staring towards the sliding glass doors at the back of the house.
    So now I'm staying awake till the sun comes up obviously.
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    New Orville Peck EP "Show Pony", six songs for... THIRTY EIGHT DOLLARS HAHAHAHA no.
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    Got two Analogue Productions 2 LP 45 RPM records coming from the west coast. The shipping manifest lists the package as "thick envelope". This does not instill confidence.
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    Best audiophile Tom Petty pressings? Anyone have any suggestions on this? Individual albums? Box sets? ENLIGHTEN ME
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    Yer Ol' Uncle D
    Yer Ol' Uncle D
    I own every TP release on vinyl. Original pressings sound nice. Tom luckily worked with good producers who understood what he wanted to achieve via The Heartbreakers. And Tom cared about what he gave the fans. There's a nice 2LP reissue of Damn The Torpedoes . I also love The Live Anthology. It's essential. You could make the case TP was the greatest American rock musician. I wouldn't fight you.
    Joe Mac
    Joe Mac
    If i didn’t already have a few I’d be looking at the two album box sets from a few years back, the modern pressings are decent and if you can find a copy it’s currently the only way to get Wildflowers without bankrupting yourself. I can’t remember an audiophile company releasing any copies of any of his stuff.
    debianlinux
    debianlinux
    Slightly unrelated, my OG copy of Full Moon Fever I got for $5 is in pristine condition all the way around and sounds fantastic. My dad and I still kick ourselves for not getting the Wildflowers LP when we saw the tour and it was all of $15 in 1995?.
    Mather
    A pair of albums I sent from Canada to Europe just arrived. I sent them Jan 28th. EIGHTEEN WEEKS. So yes, don't lose hope in that thing you bought and ordered that's seemingly gone, it could have just been hanging out in some nether-realm along with a copy of Mr. Hands and Yusef Lateef.
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