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Bloodlemons said:
FINALLY spinning Funkadelic - Finest... I can't say that this sounds "bad," because it sounds wholly unlike anything else I own. I'll have to own up to recognizing George Clinton as a pop-culture personality for many years but not spending much time with his studio output. Is this compilation supposed to sound like a cassette mixtape? Is it due to it being a compilation in general? Is the sound this hollow and weird (but kind of great) on the original albums? Provide me with some context, guys!

EDIT: the red and yellow splatter on this pressing looks really, really good, btw.
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Spinning mine right now and it sounds really good on my system. Funkadelic/Parliament was always kind of whacky. The weirdness is definitely present on several of the albums. From what I hear, they were fairly well known for their weirdness on the stage as well. Would love to get the take of someone that saw them live in their hey day.
 
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Crabbers said:
I saw this at Plaidroom today at $7:)
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Turbo said:
Spinning mine right now and it sounds really good on my system. Funkadelic/Parliament was always kind of whacky. The weirdness is definitely present on several of the albums. From what I hear, they were fairly well known for their weirdness on the stage as well. Would love to get the take of someone that saw them live in their hey day.
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What type of system are you running?

I ask because I spun this a few days ago and it sounded pretty bad to me. Flat and thin sound with no real depth or dynamics. I was highly HIGHLY disappointed. Granted, it had immediately followed an OG German pressing of Wish You Were Here, so it had a tremendously tough act to follow. But still, it sounded bad man.
 
Tyr said:
What type of system are you running?

I ask because I spun this a few days ago and it sounded pretty bad to me. Flat and thin sound with no real depth or dynamics. I was highly HIGHLY disappointed. Granted, it had immediately followed an OG German pressing of Wish You Were Here, so it had a tremendously tough act to follow. But still, it sounded bad man.
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That’s not good to hear that the Funkadelic pressing sounds poor.....😟

That’s one of the exclusives I was most excited about too......
 
NathanRicaud said:
That’s not good to hear that the Funkadelic pressing sounds poor.....😟

That’s one of the exclusives I was most excited about too......
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Me too my man, me too. I didn’t mind the delays but either this is horribly mastered or there was an issue in the pressing. My system is fairly beefy (not quite audiophile but not far off) and I was underwhelmed from the very first song. It never improved.
 
Tyr said:
What type of system are you running?

I ask because I spun this a few days ago and it sounded pretty bad to me. Flat and thin sound with no real depth or dynamics. I was highly HIGHLY disappointed. Granted, it had immediately followed an OG German pressing of Wish You Were Here, so it had a tremendously tough act to follow. But still, it sounded bad man.
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My system should be listed in my signature. Technics 1210 mk5 with an at150sa. Midrange system. Like I said, it sounded fine to me. I can AB some of the tracks with my original pressings of Maggot Brain and On the Verge to check, but I’m away from home for a week starting tomorrow morning.

Not going to start arguing about the merits of anyone's system though.
 
Ok so I couldn’t wait a week to check. I quickly AB’ed Hit it and Quit It and Standing On The Verge and the original pressings killed the comp pressing. I see what you mean. The comp sound is much flatter. It’s serviceable to me, but yeah, I can understand the disappointment. Though I kind of wish I didn’t do the A-b... ignorance was bliss :).
 
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