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| Anyone heard/compared the Steven Wilson... Qdrone- dunno, if the deadwax is any indication i'm happy to post it once I receive the record. I didn't have much interest in paying for the entire box of goods since my primary system is vinyl only- would rather spend on harder to get older pres... | |
| Anyone heard/compared the Steven Wilson... Well, I answered my own question, it was just released as a stand alone piece of vinyl. Another copy on the pile! I'll take a photo at some point of how many pressings of this record I have- it's almost not funny. And, it isn't even my favorite Tu... | |
| Anyone heard/compared the Steven Wilson... Qdrone- am I correct that the Wilson remix vinyl LP of Aqualung is not available as a 'stand-alone' copy (without the CD or DVD-A or whatever other digitally readable formats it was sold in as a package?- that's how I saw it marketed originally).M... | |
| TheVinylPress.com http://thevinylpress.com/further-reading-and-reference-materials-island-pink-label-and-early-pink-rim-era/ | |
| Anyone heard/compared the Steven Wilson... I haven't heard the Steve Wilson remixed LP only because as far as I know, it was only available as part of a multi-media package. He did good work on Benefit, though, which was a really murky recording. I have quite a few Aqualung pressings, amon... | |
| Interesting Article I buy a lot of used vinyl, much of it collectible now. I'll usually hold out for minty condition records, but given the subjective nature of record grading, not all are in the high level of playing condition I prefer. For the records I truly care ... | |
| TheVinylPress.com I've just begun a series of related articles, interviews and album reviews on the Island "pink label" era. Once complete, the series will provide a fairly in-depth look at a label whose artists, producers and releases gave us music that was not ju... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution Broadstone- I realized how seemingly inefficient my beloved electrostats were, and how high the threshold was for system noise, only after I switched to horns. I started back in the early 70's with a pair of old Quads (a/k/a '57's) and used them s... | |
| Stillpoints LP Isolator Record Weight Here's the difference I heard on my Kuzma XL (with Airline arm), compared to the factory screw down clamp which is also heavier than the Stillpoints:not as loud, not as prominent a bump in the upper bass which tended to give music explosive power ... | |
| TheVinylPress.com Thanks to all of you for your kind words and support.I recently added an interview with Stanley Booth, the guy who wrote the insider's view of the Stone's '69 tour, was hanging with Otis Redding as they laid down "Dock of the Bay" (a few days befo... | |
| We lost another bassist: Free's Andy Fraser dies Although that song was one of their best known, the group's first album, "Tons of Sobs" was an outstanding mix of blues, psych and hard rock. Later albums, and of course the eventual morphing to Bad Company, is what people tend to remember, but Fr... | |
| Classic Rock: best domestic pressings You should spend some time searching the Steve Hoffman forum; once you have read posts there for a while you learn who knows these records and who is just posting what they have. For what it is worth I think my early Santana's are KC prefix; on Ru... | |
| Hot Stamper - myth or reality? It was a pretty balanced article, i guess. Tom Port is not without controversy and this didn't really stir up anything new. As to the system, doesn't surprise me- there were a lot of well-known engineers who monitored over pretty middle of the roa... | |
| Best copy of Wish You Were Here I have the UK first press, and the black shrink was one of several attributes of the packaging, there was other indicia as well that had to do with how the jacket was cut, but my memory fails me. These early UK pressings sound pretty good, but I s... | |
| KLH MODEL NINE ELECTROSTATIC SPEAKERS. My suggestion above also concerned the relationship between the speakers and the amp; electrostats have some pretty extreme impedance dips (at least the older Quads did) and present a difficult load for some amps. So, apart from the fact that the ... |