@n80 I see some really high prices on some of the previous One Step records but there are other more reasonably priced copies if you shop well. But as much as I love those stupid dogs I want to take out two of them right now. I guess it would only effect resale price and I can't see myself letting any of the one steps go so I shouldn't get worked up too much but I do try to baby my records and for F sake I didn't even have it for a full week and is the most expensive single record I have purchased in a while! The National - Sleep Well Beast - not Boxer (as far as the performance) but it is a great sounding recording and pretty darned good pressing. Crazy super low end |
So last week my copy of The Nightfly MFSL One Step showed up that I found on Discogs for a pretty reasonable price. It is phenomenal and was mint. Today I get back from San Diego and my wife shows me that my dogs ate the cover while I was gone. :( At least the vinyl is ok Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha - incredible record, so so vinyl |
I am absolutely freaking BLOWN AWAY with how quiet the vinyl is and the incredible sound quality on this Yo La Tengo is. I know Summer Sun is not considered way up the list for a lot of YLT fanatics but I have always loved this disc and found a new copy for 25 bucks and it is AMAZING. Researching who mastered this for Matador records and who pressed it. It is THAT GOOD! |
@Boxer12 - are you referring to the Afrocubism? I picked it up at a local shop, Waterloo Records in Austin. One of the owner turned me on to the World Circuit stuff. Most of it is AMAZING, https://shop.worldcircuit.co.uk the Caichaito is my favorite, incredible, the Ruben Gonzales is also excellent. Right now: Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days |
@boxer12 - if you had a lathe at home that could handle a 12"+ piece of stock I was going to be even more impressed. Over, that is a phenomenal achievement. Much better than anything Slaw could pull off , ha ;) hell, I felt pretty impressed just setting my new table up. I even did it with my big boy pants on! Radiohead- Amnesiac 45rpm version- stellar |
@boxer12 Congrats on the new cart. That one should sound pretty sweet. Mine seems to be settling in nicely as well. I played side 3 and 4 of the Simon and Garfunkel Bridge One Step tonight on the new table. That record is so stupid good that I wound up playing The Only Living Boy in NY 4 times. It is so incredibly great in every possible way. Elton John - Madman - reissue Donald Fagen - Nightfly - MFSL One Step - the low end is just awesome and the whole record is so balanced. @slaw you are in for a treat when What's Going On arrives. |
I was also posting the other night how blown away I was with my new reissue of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road but somehow it didn't post?? I picked up a new, relatively cheap ($26 I think) copy at a local store as my old copy is pretty rough. Mercury tri-fold version. Holy smokes the new one is incredible. Vinyl is super heavy and nice, SQ is phenomenal, staging, clarity, dynamics are off the chart. I guess that Bob Ludwig knows a thing or two?? Highly recommended if you have an old copy like I did. |
@slaw Slaw, the cart is new, I installed an Ortofon Quintet Black, which is the cart this table comes with if you order this table with a cart. The previous owner took his cart to a new table. The Ortofon is much smoother on the high end and MUCH better on the low-end extension but I suspect that is table and arm related as well. Overall I am very pleased so far. I suspect the cart will break in nicely. Right now: Beck - Morning Phase - incredible |
@slaw I bought an EAT C-Sharp and will be putting the cart that is typically factory fitted on it, an Ortofon Quintet Black. I got to hear one a while back at a local shop but the shop changed hands and they no longer stock the EAT gear so I was looking online. I was comparing it to a Rega P6 and the EAT was extremely impressive and is drop dead gorgeous, work of art from a design perspective. Big change from my current table. |
@slaw That Aretha is very, very good. I really like that record. I am kinda curious if AP will put out a pressing in 200gram 33rpm at some point. If so I want to compare. For some silly reason I just bought a turntable from a guy on the forum? I am not bright. Now I have to find a dang cart for it. Should have probably just bought more AP records and the TP box set. |
White Stripes - Elephant Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven- AP 33rpm 200gram, holy frik, it is so amazing sounding Kings of Leon - Youth and Manhood, great album, just wish the low end of the record was better done Elliot Smith - Either/Or, I still can't get over how good this reissue is. So highly recommended Flaming Lips- Yoshimi, German pressing |
@slaw Sorry, thought someone else was talking about the quality of How the West Was Won. Thanks for the heads up. I like your competition. Let's hear your results, but Filmore East is a pretty strong live album. Today: Bob Marley - Survival from the box set, not my favorite Bob album but it sounds really good in this pressing |
That is the trick bdp, when I think "perfect" you can't pull off a single song (like Yellow Submarine) and EVERY track has to be awesome. It is a tough criteria and even renders a massive number of masterpieces 'imperfect' to me. Doesn't mean they aren't the greatest albums of all time but very few "perfect" |
"Perfect Record" as in every song is perfect, no filler songs or bad songs on the record or/and? Perfect vinyl quality and sound? As many phenomenal albums as there are in this world I think there is a handful of "Perfect albums" Kind of Blue, Dark Side, Aja, Led Zep I, Highway to Hell, Never Mind the Bollocks, In Rainbows, Trace and...? Are a few I put into my list. Hell, Exile on Main Street may be the greatest Rock and roll album of all time but there are two schitt tracks on it I can't stand, just like OK Computer. Now Morning Phase is a strong contender to me for the most perfect album ever. Amazing performance, amazing recording, amazing sound quality and mastering. It is awesome in every way to me. Pablo |
@bdp24 GDP, I couldn’t agree more. I personally thought Trace just absolutely mopped the floor with the first Wilco record from a songwriting and execution perspective. And I too could not figure out why Tweedy got so much more attention than Farrar. Didn’t compute to me. Hell, in my opinion, if you listen to Anodyne the two bands had already formed and when I would play that record I would skip most of the Tweedy tracks. Oddly, I was never a huge fan of Jay’s solo stuff. The first 3 SV records were just so frigging great. A golden period like the Stones from Beggars Banquet to Sticky Fingers. Pablo |
@slaw Agreed, I have seen them about a dozen and a half times and met Jay briefly at a solo show in Austin that was in between Straightaways and Wide Swing (I think). I was an Uncle Tupelo fan prior and when they split I actually think Son Volt is the better band (at least for the first 3 records) and I like Jay more than Tweedy as a song writer. I am really not much of a Wilco fan. I would have told anyone for many years that Trace was my favorite collection of songs on one record. It is incredible. But from a playback perspective, my copy of Straightaways smokes Trace. They went kinda wonky after Wide Swing and I was not happy that it really became a solo effort for a while as I really liked the Boquist brothers, they are super talented. And the pedal player from the Jayhawks, who's name escapes me at the moment. They are not super exciting live but can be damn good. Pablo |
@slaw The solo in Comfortably Numb is in my top 5 of all time and that reissue sounds epicly large and wide. I had forgotten that The Wall won Grammy for best engineered that year. I remember skipping school to get my copy the day they released it and I must have put 100 spins on it the first month I had it |
@slaw That reissue of The Wall is damn good, my daughter got me a copy for my birthday this year and it sounds pretty spectacular and I agree, it really has to be fairly full volume for me as well which means I get windows to which I can listen to it, kinda like Rage. That Aretha's Gold is pretty damn good. Tough to remaster a greatest hits as the originals are so different but it is very good nonetheless. Dr. Feelgood is exceptional. |
