big_greg
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Got my turntable back from the shop (problem went away without them doing anything and so far it is working great) and back to my project of getting all my records into Discogs. Jeff Beck Group - Rough and Ready | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Grimes - Miss Anthropocene, Qobuz | |
| Headphones with Volume control...? Consider a headphone amp with remote control instead. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Got a shipment of white label promos from Japan yesterday. First up, Linda Ronstadt - Greatest Hits Vol. 2. Foreigner - Records on the table now. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz, Qobuz. One more reason to like Sweden! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Steve, I think there are the same kinds of differences in sound quality that we see with domestically pressed records. I'm not sure that you can generalize, but it seems like the sellers in Japan are more meticulous in terms of taking care of thei... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Genesis - Duke | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw Steve, I don't think he's on Discogs. Here's his website: http://rarerecords.net/Recently I've been shopping mostly in Japan and Europe on Discogs, picking up some white label promos and Japan pressings with the cool OBI strips. Those OBI... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A little follow up on my post about the Steely Dan Gaucho record I mentioned in a previous post.I wrote to Rare Records to express my disappointment and the owner, Charlie Essmeier, wrote back to me. He confirmed that his records are visually gra... | |
| Tidal vs Quobuz I have both. They each have some things that the other doesn’t - Tidal has a larger library and I like the "my mix" feature where they put together playlists for me based on my tastes. I prefer Qobuz because there’s no gimmick like MQA, just high ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Led Zeppelin II, Japan pressing. This one sounds nice! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Gaucho. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @mammothguy54 I’m a little disappointed with the sound quality of this record. If it has a lot of surface noise and was supposed to be NM-. My first purchase from Rare Records, probably my last. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Steely Dan - Gaucho, Japan white label promo. | |
| Choosing Headphones up to 1700 USD Generally speaking, closed back headphones dig lower, similar to sealed subs, speakers, etc. There are of course exceptions. Both my LCD-XC and the Sony MDR-Z1R reproduce bass really well. It's a weird sensation when you feel your head being "p... |