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radiodead said:
Phoebe Bridgers arrived yesterday. Haven’t spun it yet but looks great. Nice faint pink that mixes with the blue, I think it’s the best variant by far.
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Oh nice! Glad it arrived in good time, mines on its way according to the tracking. I have managed to avoid listening to the album so far, I really want the first spin to be the first time I listen. Cant really go wrong with Phoebe Bridgers.
 
Skeletonframes said:
Well, I decided to listen to the Khruangbin album today. Boy, what a bad press. Side A1 is warped, but not too bad. Pretty heavy click at the end of track 2. Fuzz at the end of the side. Side A2 is flat, but has surface noise throughout. It gets worse as the needle gets closer to center. Gave it a quick cleaning, but I’m im gonna have to go in deeper tomorrow. I just have the normal cleaning brush with liquid, nothing fancy, maybe I’ll invest in a better cleaning system.

I’m just getting so tired of contacting support on vinyl. It’s taking a lot of the fun out of collecting. Oh well. I guess I shouldn’t take it so seriously.
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So, I posted this a few days ago when I was really disappointed with a string of records that arrived in the last few weeks. But, there is light at the end of this tunnel!

I live in an apartment and my set-up consists of my turntable to amp to receiver to speakers. None of it particularly high-end, but my speakers pick up every tiny little pop, fuzz, and bump. I have one wireless satellite speaker that I use when we're out on the balcony and that one doesn't seem to pick up much surface noise or pops or anything. I don't know if it is because it's not hardwired, or because of the ambient noise outside being louder, or just because it's a lower quality speaker....

...all I know is now I have 2 separate sections for records. Indoor records and outdoor records, because we were on the balcony having a few drinks and I wanted to spin Mordechai and let me tell you.......outside it sounded damn fine. I would walk inside to get another drink and still hear the surface noise of the record, but once I got back outside it was as if I was playing it on digital. Cheers to outdoor records!!!
 
Skeletonframes said:
So, I posted this a few days ago when I was really disappointed with a string of records that arrived in the last few weeks. But, there is light at the end of this tunnel!

I live in an apartment and my set-up consists of my turntable to amp to receiver to speakers. None of it particularly high-end, but my speakers pick up every tiny little pop, fuzz, and bump. I have one wireless satellite speaker that I use when we're out on the balcony and that one doesn't seem to pick up much surface noise or pops or anything. I don't know if it is because it's not hardwired, or because of the ambient noise outside being louder, or just because it's a lower quality speaker....

...all I know is now I have 2 separate sections for records. Indoor records and outdoor records, because we were on the balcony having a few drinks and I wanted to spin Mordechai and let me tell you.......outside it sounded damn fine. I would walk inside to get another drink and still hear the surface noise of the record, but once I got back outside it was as if I was playing it on digital. Cheers to outdoor records!!!
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I ended up grabbing the VMP variant and the Dead Oceans variant and forgot to cancel one. They both arrived the other day and I was worried after everyone saying Dead Oceans pressings suck and that the album sounds awful. I spun the Dead Oceans variant and it sounds perfectly fine to me. No early, no surface noise, no pops. Maybe I just lucked out! None of my Secretly Society pressings sound bad either.
 
MikeH said:
I ended up grabbing the VMP variant and the Dead Oceans variant and forgot to cancel one. They both arrived the other day and I was worried after everyone saying Dead Oceans pressings suck and that the album sounds awful. I spun the Dead Oceans variant and it sounds perfectly fine to me. No early, no surface noise, no pops. Maybe I just lucked out! None of my Secretly Society pressings sound bad either.
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My friend brought over the Dead Oceans variant last Friday and spun it on my system and it sounded pristine. I think I just "un-lucked out" what with the color and pressing, but I'm okay with it. It has a new life outside. ha.
 
Mather said:
That AP LA Woman is a revelation. That iconic descending organ run at about 4 minutes into Riders On The Storm is absolutely heavenly, I actually said "holy hell" out loud to no one when that part hit. I think it's partly the reverb on a lot of their songs that just comes alive on this pressing. I liked it so much I bought the AP 45's of their self titled first album, Strange Days and Morrison Hotel. So far that LA Woman is the standout of the bunch, though I haven't spun Morrison Hotel yet.
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Just arrived today. I've been listening to this album pretty solidly for the best part of 30 years and this is by far the best I've heard it sound. It's outright marvellous. Big balls out brilliant
 
Rowan said:
Just arrived today. I've been listening to this album pretty solidly for the best part of 30 years and this is by far the best I've heard it sound. It's outright marvellous. Big balls out brilliant
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Glad to hear you like it. Honestly I cannot fathom how it could sound any better. Riders on the Storm, that opening thunderstorm fx literally sounds like I'm listening to it in surround sound. The dynamics and the soundstage on it are just unreal. And I have to say, whether you like Morrison Hotel as a complete album or not, the 2 LP 45 AP of that one is also absolutely incredible. Peace Frog and Waiting For The Sun being the two standout songs on it in terms of sound. Dear god.
Strange Days is great but LA Woman and Morrison Hotel are, in my mind, the two you really want of these AP 45s.
Disclaimer: I do not own the APs of Soft Parade or Waiting For The Sun. So they could also be great, but.... I don't need Soft Parade thanks... Waiting for the Sun MAYYYBEEE...
 
Mather said:
Glad to hear you like it. Honestly I cannot fathom how it could sound any better. Riders on the Storm, that opening thunderstorm fx literally sounds like I'm listening to it in surround sound. The dynamics and the soundstage on it are just unreal. And I have to say, whether you like Morrison Hotel as a complete album or not, the 2 LP 45 AP of that one is also absolutely incredible. Peace Frog and Waiting For The Sun being the two standout songs on it in terms of sound. Dear god.
Strange Days is great but LA Woman and Morrison Hotel are, in my mind, the two you really want of these AP 45s.
Disclaimer: I do not own the APs of Soft Parade or Waiting For The Sun. So they could also be great, but.... I don't need Soft Parade thanks... Waiting for the Sun MAYYYBEEE...
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Haha. Do it, man. Soft parade has quality on there. Plus the big band Doors sound at this quality has be worth a go.

Morrison Hotel is actually my fave Doors album so I'm all in for that... At about 90 English pounds. But this L. A Woman is wild! Amazing that I can be blown away totally by an album I must have played hundreds and hundreds of times.

The guitar kick back on L. A Woman after Jim's Mr Mojo Risin section is bonkers good! My fave Vmp pick up ever!
 
Rowan said:
Haha. Do it, man. Soft parade has quality on there. Plus the big band Doors sound at this quality has be worth a go.

Morrison Hotel is actually my fave Doors album so I'm all in for that... At about 90 English pounds. But this L. A Woman is wild! Amazing that I can be blown away totally by an album I must have played hundreds and hundreds of times.

The guitar kick back on L. A Woman after Jim's Mr Mojo Risin section is bonkers good! My fave Vmp pick up ever!
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Okay well if Morrison Hotel is your favorite than trust me, fork out the cash and get it. You will not be disappointed, of the 4 AP 45 Doors I have I'd say it's 1A/1B with LA Woman. The pounding guitar line in Waiting For The Sun is like a wall that punches you in the chest, and Peace Frog is... I have no words. I literally had a tear in my eye. My wife was looking at me with thinly veiled concern. There is no way you will ever find a better sounding copy than this, until they invent some new sort of "HD Vinyl" or some such nonsense.

-checks notes-

I'm sorry apparently they've already invented this... so you've probably got 3-5 years before there's a better one that costs £1000.
 
Mather said:
Glad to hear you like it. Honestly I cannot fathom how it could sound any better. Riders on the Storm, that opening thunderstorm fx literally sounds like I'm listening to it in surround sound. The dynamics and the soundstage on it are just unreal...
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This comment tipped the scales for me. I've got the LA Woman DVD-Audio which was mixed in surround, but my DVD-A player crapped out years ago. Have a credit with VMP and applying it to this release.
 
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