Definitive Audiophile pressings

Are there any pressing or mastering details for that new pressing of The Nightfly yet? I know Rhino usually put out a pretty good product...
 
Are there any pressing or mastering details for that new pressing of The Nightfly yet? I know Rhino usually put out a pretty good product...
Sadly, while Rhino puts out pretty good product, you never really know what the details are until someone gets an eye on the deadwax. They are really bad at saying who mastered things. Hoping it's a KG or Bellman cut though. BG/CB seem to be doing a lot of the Rhino stuff as of late.
 
What's the point of having a boxset if you don't pull it out and look at it every once in a while?
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Might be a repress Of The CB from a few years ago,although doesn’t seem that long ago when it was readily available, I got a copy in the Fagen Xmas box set, but RL are pretty sweet. We’ll have to wait and see.
Sadly, while Rhino puts out pretty good product, you never really know what the details are until someone gets an eye on the deadwax. They are really bad at saying who mastered things. Hoping it's a KG or Bellman cut though. BG/CB seem to be doing a lot of the Rhino stuff as of late.
 
Speaking of Intervention, the highly regarded Matthew Sweet Girlfriend 2LP is getting a repress. Currently up for pre order on the Intervention website. Due to ship in March.
Intervention Records' amazing 180-gram vinyl reissue of Matthew Sweet's '90s power-pop classic Girlfriend is back IN STOCK and SHIPPING NOW!
 
I've seen them run a few sales in the past! Not often, but for a holiday or something if it's not a title that's selling out/getting repressed, they've done it.
Speak of the devil.
Valentine's special: 100% Fun Expanded Edition Double LP on sale for just $30!!
DISCOUNT APPLIED AUTOMATICALLY IN CART
ACT NOW! SALE ENDS AT MIDNIGHT 2.15.21
 
Intervention Records' amazing 180-gram vinyl reissue of Matthew Sweet's '90s power-pop classic Girlfriend is back IN STOCK and SHIPPING NOW!
FYI - Shane at Intervention is the man. Great customer service. Have ordered a few others in the past like the Joe Jacksons and they're really well done.
 
Speak of the devil.
Valentine's special: 100% Fun Expanded Edition Double LP on sale for just $30!!
DISCOUNT APPLIED AUTOMATICALLY IN CART
ACT NOW! SALE ENDS AT MIDNIGHT 2.15.21
I know I’m in the minority but I actually prefer this album to Girlfriend (both are great however!)
 
All the good stuff is on the inside which I pull out to look at! The box is just...a box!
The first time I just put the box almost directly in the bin though was the VMP Blue Note anthology. It was liberating.

Since then, I've kept some others (Chet Baker, Police, Nat King Cole, Mingus, etc) that seem to add artistic value/good design and have thrown away the ones that just felt like shipping material (Aretha). Where I stuggle are the good looking boxes (Coltrane, Sonny Rollins) that reduce the number of times I play the record because they are "fiddly." I then find myself doing the truly ridiculous thing of filing the individual records, and booklets with the artist and storing the boxes separately. My worst offenders here are the two Jack White/Paramount boxes -- which were a wonderful, thoughtful gift -- but are lousy non-user friendly packaging for anyone that cares about playing the music regularly.
 
The first time I just put the box almost directly in the bin though was the VMP Blue Note anthology. It was liberating.

Since then, I've kept some others (Chet Baker, Police, Nat King Cole, Mingus, etc) that seem to add artistic value/good design and have thrown away the ones that just felt like shipping material (Aretha). Where I stuggle are the good looking boxes (Coltrane, Sonny Rollins) that reduce the number of times I play the record because they are "fiddly." I then find myself doing the truly ridiculous thing of filing the individual records, and booklets with the artist and storing the boxes separately. My worst offenders here are the two Jack White/Paramount boxes -- which were a wonderful, thoughtful gift -- but are lousy non-user friendly packaging for anyone that cares about playing the music regularly.
I’m in the same boat as you...the One Steps I have are taken out of the box and filed in my regular stacks with their sleeves because I simply listen to them more than way. I’m moving soon so will redo my storage and listening area, so maybe that will change how I feel about certain boxes... but the fiddly boxes do make me listen to the music less sometimes. I spend a lot of my time listening in my home office at the moment just because of how our apartment is set up so I usually grab a record off the shelves and throw it on while I’m working or doing something else. I know it’s flat out ridiculous since by nature, vinyl listening is anything but convenient...
 
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