Definitive Audiophile pressings

Turbo said:
Not to derail the talk of controversies... been fun keeping up with this while out of town. 🍿

But I wanted to share this find with you all. Came across a minty fresh 1985 canadian first pressing while in Montreal last week. This thing is an absolute beauty. Quiet like a japanese pressing, great dynamics, lush vocals and deep low end. Not sure anything can top this... A little bit of ringwear on the jacket but otherwise true NM media. Lucked out on this.

Leonard Cohen - Various Positions

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Bravo! Always exciting to make a find like that.
 
wmeugene said:
Or use the lacquers for more than one set of converts (which I take it is the one-step lingo for the stamper)?
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Lacquer is really really fragile. It’s in some ways the equivalent of a layer of nail varnish. The very process of making the convert, or in non one step father, destroys it. Hence why one step has exposed the potential issue because 40,000 records required min 40 lacquers to make the 40 stampers, and likely more if there are the usual breakages.
 
Turbo said:
Not to derail the talk of controversies... been fun keeping up with this while out of town. 🍿

But I wanted to share this find with you all. Came across a minty fresh 1985 canadian first pressing while in Montreal last week. This thing is an absolute beauty. Quiet like a japanese pressing, great dynamics, lush vocals and deep low end. Not sure anything can top this... A little bit of ringwear on the jacket but otherwise true NM media. Lucked out on this.

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A lot of those Canadian 80s pressings are really good if they are in good condition. I grabbed an original pressing of The Cars - Heartbeat City last week and it is dead quiet.
 
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Ginormousthumbs said:
I get so many IG ads for the perfect shirt that fit your tummy/body. Usually there is an attractive woman involved to mesmerize men to click the check out now tab, fast.
The Meta algorithm suuuucks.
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You don’t make jokes about ‘em, TC Tuggers. You don’t wear ‘em as a joke, you don’t give ‘em as a joke gift, or wear them ironically, or do pub crawls in ‘em like the Snuggie. They’re not like the Snuggie.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
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What they don't mention is how the first version of this commercial was filmed in a park where all the actors involved are now registered sex offenders since the Mom's were not too thrilled about a group of TC Tugging middle aged men making obscene gestures by the playground.

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I picked up a 74 rainbow label of Second Helping today with a KENDUN cut.
Must be on the cusp of a 2nd pressing.
www.discogs.com

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1974 Vinyl release of "Second Helping" on Discogs.
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This one is so close to a yellow label and NM that I think I will likely have my final copy.

Anyway, this article came up and I thought it was pretty cool insight for 1974 and today.
Old interviews from experts like this are enlightening.


Begins on pg 15.
 
AudioAce said:
Here's a question for all you record fans out there. I need to know the definitive pressings for Spoon albums if there are any to look for. What should I be looking for?
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You are in luck with Spoon, most of their albums released by Merge were pressed at RTI and can be had for reasonably cheap price.

Their Matador albums are not bad either most of the US copies are pressed by GZ their most recent album was cut by Chris Bellman and sounds quite good.
 
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Oh....and as long as a release isn't cut from a CD i really don't care if there is a digital step.

I probably can't hear the difference it anyway.

I think a bigger issue is who cut it and where it was pressed.


I do believe in transparency. If "Original Master Recording" is supposed to mean "from the master tape" like they said it means...then this means cut directly from the master tape, and I think there has been some shenanigans with marketing in the last couple years around this...and it isn't just MoFi.
 
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AnthonyI said:


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You could in theory daisy chain multiple lathes. Get 10 daisy chained and you’d only have to play the master tape 4 times.

Which brings up another issue: I’d think the records pressed from lathe 1 would sound superior to the others.

That said, and assuming that the One Step process is the best/most faithful to the source, there’s still no guarantee of great sound. I have a low number Stevie Ray Vaughan One Step. It sounds…..well….not $125. My assumption is that the master tape doesn’t either. My One Step is theoretically the best commercially available copy of an average master tape.

Fortunately I have no interest whatsoever in Thriller. I do find myself waffling on a few Van Halen One Steps though.
 
HiFi Guy said:
You could in theory daisy chain multiple lathes. Get 10 daisy chained and you’d only have to play the master tape 4 times.

Which brings up another issue: I’d think the records pressed from lathe 1 would sound superior to the others.

That said, and assuming that the One Step process is the best/most faithful to the source, there’s still no guarantee of great sound. I have a low number Stevie Ray Vaughan One Step. It sounds…..well….not $125. My assumption is that the master tape doesn’t either. My One Step is theoretically the best commercially available copy of an average master tape.

Fortunately I have no interest whatsoever in Thriller. I do find myself waffling on a few Van Halen One Steps though.
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I have a few SRV 1st pressings (CSTW and STS) that just rock.
 
Apparently confirmed MoFi are cutting from digital.

I agree with everyone saying that doesn't matter in terms of if it sounds good it sounds good.

However, I think it is incredibly shitty of them to leave the implication that they are cutting from tape, obviously knowing essentially the entire vinyl journalistic and purchasing community thinks they are and never clarify or correct that.

I am not the market for one-steps, so this doesn't really impact how I feel about them. I won't stop spinning the records that I do have from them that I love and are confirmed DSD as that is not important to me. This has further decreased my desire to support them though, something that their price hikes already have affected.
 
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