Secretly Society

I’d have figured they’d be driving more memberships at the end of the year/Black Friday by pulling in some heavier hitters. Maybe the opposite? Loading new membership months with low-cost titles to offset the one or two and done discount crowds.
 
It's been a while since I've actually asked for a "swap", and by comments in here over the past several months it seems their internal policy on this has changed. So before I ask for something that they won't do......has anybody had any recent-ish luck in actually swapping for a non-past ROTM?
 
livinsmall said:
It's been a while since I've actually asked for a "swap", and by comments in here over the past several months it seems their internal policy on this has changed. So before I ask for something that they won't do......has anybody had any recent-ish luck in actually swapping for a non-past ROTM?
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In the past but not recently since they apparently changed it.
 
livinsmall said:
It's been a while since I've actually asked for a "swap", and by comments in here over the past several months it seems their internal policy on this has changed. So before I ask for something that they won't do......has anybody had any recent-ish luck in actually swapping for a non-past ROTM?
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Really had to beg and the guy was like “I’ll make an exception just this once” and I felt like I was just let into Berghain
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
anyone else gotten their Big Red Machine? Mine arrived but I'm not going to open it until I read some sound reviews lol
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I’ve got mine in UK. Sounds good to me. I have to say here though this debate always comes up and so many people listen on so many different types of systems. High end systems and budget £50 suitcase decks that sometimes the question becomes a moot point. And poorly maintained expensive and cheap systems. Just my opinion. But it sounds good to me.
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
anyone else gotten their Big Red Machine? Mine arrived but I'm not going to open it until I read some sound reviews lol
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Mine shows out for delivery but I've got a pretty big backlog so I'm not sure when I'll get to listen to it. 64 minutes long puts it towards the bottom of my listening pile.
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
anyone else gotten their Big Red Machine? Mine arrived but I'm not going to open it until I read some sound reviews lol
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I didn't get the Secretly club variant but I did get my weird colored variant from Ambient Inks a few weeks ago and it sounded quite good on first listen. Mine was flat with no surface noise at all. I'd have to go back and do an A/B with the high res digital to see any differences though.
 
Ghost said:
Just got mine, sounds like shit. Horrible surface noise so far. Commence replacement roulette.
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damn. my crazy color one had zero surface noise whatsoever. i did hit mine with the zerostat before playing it though since i've had bad luck with static lately...
 
MikeH said:
damn. my crazy color one had zero surface noise whatsoever. i did hit mine with the zerostat before playing it though since i've had bad luck with static lately...
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Seems like Track 2 has shed the surface noise, but Track 1 was ATLiens type surface noise except it was present through out the entire track. Curious as to what caused it. Record is surprisingly flat, but I noticed my cart is kind of swimming in a left - right fashion, any experience with that?
 
Ghost said:
Seems like Track 2 has shed the surface noise, but Track 1 was ATLiens type surface noise except it was present through out the entire track. Curious as to what caused it. Record is surprisingly flat, but I noticed my cart is kind of swimming in a left - right fashion, any experience with that?
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Seems to be pressed off center?
 
Ghost said:
Seems like Track 2 has shed the surface noise, but Track 1 was ATLiens type surface noise except it was present through out the entire track. Curious as to what caused it. Record is surprisingly flat, but I noticed my cart is kind of swimming in a left - right fashion, any experience with that?
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Spinning mine again now--no surface noise on A1. There's the smallest amount of drift on mine but its really negligible so doesn't seem to affect sound. That's usually due to an off-center pressing. On perfectly centered pressings the tone arm shouldn't really sway left to right as it tracks. Most pressings nowadays (Especially in the last year) have had some sort of minor drift for me but I have only asked for replacements in that case if it's really moving a ton left to right.
 
About 3/4 of the way through Big Red Machine. My copy sounds pretty good. Did notice Side A was off a bit. The pianos at the end sounded a bit wonky but I've heard worse. Didn't notice it on any other sides.
 
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