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To be sure! Sam Records. Nice. How did they know…?
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@tomic601 Good to hear you liked it. You have me wanting to give it another spin! |
@jerryg123 +1 The The - Infected. What a cracking album. The bastard gave me tinnitus 20 years ago. |
@big_greg +1 on Deep Purple morning moods. Do you have Come Taste The Band? Heavily Tommy Bolin influenced. |
Hey "turntable tonight?" thread guys. Anyone else annoyed by this recent practice of placing a standard LP length recording onto 2 disks (4 sides)? 2-3 songs on a side makes for lots of up/downs to swap sides. I can understand it for records that are significantly longer than a typical LP. However, standard record length releases spread across 4 sides seems like a marketing ploy to me. Does anyone think/know if there is a significant Sound Quality improvement to having more available space to spread the track across? Also, what are your thoughts on records that have the album spread across only 3 sides of a double LP? I have a few like this. Anyway, maybe I'm just getting lazy. But changing sides after only 10-12 minutes, or so, seems excessive to me.
Thoughts? Pro or Con.... |
I think they sound amazing. I just toss them on the BSR record changer and let it do the work. |
@big_greg - Are you mocking me? ;~) Anyway, you can't do that with modern records as they are pressed - Disk 1 (side 1, side 2) and Disk 2 (side 3, side 4). It would play out of order on a stacker. Now, if you have old double LPs, most of them were pressed - Disk 1 (side 1, side 4) and Disk 2 (side 2, side 3). This way you could play them on a stacker, listen to the first 2 LPs, flip the stack and listen to the rest, in order! |
Love David Gray, in particular White Ladder as it summed up / captured a life phase i was in….thanks Tom, i will check that out. The recuts MAY be driven by a move back to manual recutting with less compression and bass demphahasis (eq) caused by computerized lathe. Dynamic range and volume at low end drive spacing… The wider spacing is better up to a point. I surfed right up next to buying a manual Skulley lathe tgen discovered the Ferrari oil change bill… ha. Jim |
Tom, I was just goofing. I have some compilations that have side 1 & 4 on one disc and 2 & 3 on the other. I always chuckle a little when I see those. I do get annoyed by that, but on the other hand, just the last couple of days I've played a couple of records that have a bunch of songs on each side and hear occasional weird chirps / distortion. I am more annoyed that we seem to be back to having to solve a picture captcha for every post. That is going to put an end to my posting days. |
Tom, Sort of like the short sides on a 12” 45? Those are a different thing I know but every one I have (about 8) is worth the bother. I have very few replacement records at all and none with an expanded number of discs. I do however have several newer issue, 33 rpm sets with 3 or 4 relatively short sides and they all sound great. I believe it helps. Most times I don’t mind the extra trouble (except for maybe on Neil Young’s recent Colorado - which is new but as you describe and is annoying - exception that proves the rule …) opposite is too much ( > 25 minutes ) crammed on a side often doesn’t sound good on my rig. Case in point: in a box of piano sonatas nos. 1-4: < 20 min per side sound good. 5th: +30 min crammed on one side sounds flat, thin, crummy. Good test because every other aspect is apparently the same. But I suspect this is a well known thing to you and the cognoscenti here. |
I wonder if there is a sweet spot regarding how many minutes of content are optimal when considering maximizing content, without affecting Sound Quality. I'm likely not as critical of a listener as some of you, so I find it annoying when there is only 10/12/13 minutes of content on a side, pushing the album to two disks unnecessarily. However, if the Sound Quality is noticeably improved (even though I don't necessarily hear it), I'm all for it. |
@spiritofradio - Thanks for the link. Per the article, about 22-24 minutes per side before there is any effect on SQ. So, at least some of the offending albums had some "extras" thrown-in to make the 4 sides at least reasonable long. Still wish they would have just put the original content on 2 sides (or 3, if 2 would have been over about 23 minutes per side). Anyone have any 3 sided records with cool artwork pressed into side 4?
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@tomic601 - You're a dangerous man! Just sayin'... |