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My dust cover gets HELLA dusty after just a couple of days. Add to that the fact that it's summer and I have a cat, and it's just a dusty hairy mess. Dust covers are good things, and a dust-free turntable is a happy turntable. 
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Aug 9, 2011 20:18
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poo poo that is awesome. Love that album.
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Aug 22, 2011 23:46
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LtTennisBall posted:So Jeff Mangum just put up a massive new website for Neutral Milk Hotel, including news that a new vinyl boxset is coming out in November, containing everything they've ever released (On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Everything Is) three seven inches (one with Holland, 1945 b/w engine, one with two unreleased tracks, one with two versions of the track Little Bird) a 10 inch with 8 unreleased tracks and two posters. Holy poo poo, instant purchase is right. This is so exciting, and I'm so glad I just happened to have some extra cash.  Edit: vvv Agreed on the Blu-Ray SW set. The "special edition" films have so much terrible poo poo added that it really does make them worse films. It's really sad because the original original trilogy is fantastic. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Aug 26, 2011 |
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Aug 26, 2011 22:48
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fozzie dunlop posted:Use the code turntables20 at Insound this week when ordering a turntable to get 20% off. I recommend the Music Hall, Pro-Ject, and Numark models, and the Vestax is great if you can afford it. Stay as far away from the Crosleys as possible. I have the Music Hall USB-1 and I think it's great. It's my first table, and I bought it because it seemed like a good value for my budget at the time. Looking back, I have no real need for a USB connection, as every new vinyl I've bought comes with a download code, and any of the older vinyl I have, I either already have a digital version, or I don't want one. If I had known that before I bought it, I might have gone for a different one. Still, it's a really nice table for the money, in my n00b opinion.
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^^^ Awesome.Vintersorg posted:How can one not care about the track listings? It's the way the album is meant to flow. I guess if all your care about is singles and poo poo, than yeah but man, track listing and flow is super imporant. Totally. Part of the reason I got into vinyl is because I love sitting down and listening to an album start to finish. If I've heard an album, and then hear it again with the tracks mixed up, it just sounds weird.
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Oct 4, 2011 01:57
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cheese eats mouse posted:The album that got me into The Mars Volta and my second favorite of theirs. I had to have it. Don't ask me how much this fucker cost me. Aw drat. That's kick rear end. I look for TMV vinyl every time I go to any record store, and can't ever find them. *envy*
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Nov 3, 2011 17:51
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NESguerilla posted:drat. Didn't realize that their poo poo was so pricey. I have the Tremulant EP sitting around here somewhere. Bought it when it came out for $6 Checking out Discogs right now, it is loving hard to believe that the Deloused 2LP goes for $200. Goddamn I need a higher paying job. That is craaaazy.
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Nov 4, 2011 16:25
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CPL593H posted:I picked up the new Black Keys 12" single earlier today. It's got a pretty interesting gimmick. The record plays backwards. The recording isn't backwards, but you put the stylus on the runout groove and it plays from there instead of the other way around like usual. Has anyone released a record like that before? I read something about this recently. I think a lot of older classical recordings were done this way to reduce distortion as the music got louder toward the end. Something to do with the number of rotations increasing as the needle gets closer to the center of the disc.
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Nov 27, 2011 06:32
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Something to do with the feet would be my guess as well, but it's also very likely that it's just some random spring that has nothing to do with anything. I have two turntables and neither of them have any springs anywhere.
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All this talk about feet led me to Needle Doctor to check out some stabilization pads. I was shocked to see that some of them get up to $1500, but then I started browsing their shop a bit more, and came across this cartridge.  $15,000. I can't imagine even being able to hear well enough to justify spending that much on a single component. Craaazy.Then again, they also have a turntable that's nearly $200,000, so I guess if you're going for that kind of eccentricity, you may as well throw in a 15 grand cartridge. Chump change. Has anyone here ever listened to a record on equipment that outrageously expensive? If so, what's it like? 
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Nov 29, 2011 06:34
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Exactly. I haven't spent much at all on my setup and it sounds loving amazing. The only time I've had an issue with the sound has been from the vinyl being staticy or dirty. There has to be a point when the record itself is not creating a perfect sound, even if the equipment is. I now have an image in my mind of someone in a clean-room with advanced air filtration, humidity control, sound dampening, etc., wearing an anti-static suit and gloves, handling records like they're loving uranium and enjoying pure audio bliss for like 10-15 minutes at a time before having to carefully flip the record over, making sure the earth's rotation and gravity haven't thrown off the syncing of the turntable, and so forth. vvv That's downright reasonable compared to this. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Nov 30, 2011 |
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Nov 29, 2011 12:55
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Dissapointed Owl posted:After watching Scott Pilgrim vs The World for a second time and doing a complete 180 about it, I got interested in looking for the soundtrack on vinyl. Limited + colored vinyl + awesome songs + hipster cred = Pay out the rear end. Wasn't the vinyl a Record Store Day release? Maybe not. Maybe you're not even talking about the price. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Dec 4, 2011 |
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Dec 4, 2011 22:35
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CPL593H posted:I went to pick up the new Black Keys album and it was sold out, but then they had the new White Stripes singles reissues. So it all worked out in the end. Kick rear end. I found a copy of Icky Thump today which I was very happy about. My first White Stripes LP, and also my favorite WS album. Really want to find GBMS one of these days...
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Dec 7, 2011 00:58
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Good point. A reissue seems like an inevitability to me.
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Dec 7, 2011 05:35
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I might be interested in this oneNESguerilla posted:Mastodon-Lifesblood (Colored 2x7" also very limited)
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Dec 13, 2011 02:37
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alg posted:just saw this over on FB.  I want to blast it right now, but one of my speakers is in the shop... Could do headphones I suppose, but um... I want to BLAST it. loving love that black and pink splatter. This cell phone photo doesn't do it justice whatsoever. NESguerilla posted:It's on clear red. I bought it around the time leviathan came out I think or maybe a little before that. I'll have to look into which pressing it is. Let me get back to ya on the price. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Dec 14, 2011 |
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Dec 14, 2011 01:57
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My Neutral Milk Hotel box set arrived today, and it is a thing of beauty. Can't wait to dive in.
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CPL593H posted:On a totally different note, an indie label called Joyful Noise Recordings (they put out weird novelty items like oF Montreal and Dinosaur Jr. cassettes) is doing a record of the month club where they'll issue flexi discs with songs exclusive to each release. Every disc is limited to 500. Truth be told I've not heard of half the bands on the list, but it's only $5.75 (shipped) a month so I figured why not. If you pay an extra 20 bucks for the first month, they send you a special hand numbered and decorated wooden box to hold the discs. I figured the folks here would be interested to know this because it's a pretty unique offer and a few of the bands on the list for these singles get name dropped here now and again.
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Crumbles posted:Yeah, it's clipping no matter what, also clipping in Ableton. I'm thinking maybe the output voltage of the cartridge I got is too high Have you tried listening to it without going through the computer?
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Jan 1, 2012 02:15
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Jerry Cotton posted:Auto-return is the best thing since bread. It should be mandatory.  But seriously, I seem to have an inordinate amount of records that don't have an endless groove at the end to stop the stylus from running over the label, so I tend to be pretty quick to get up and lift the arm before it does. It really would be nice to have an auto-return on my table. I have a TT with a linear arm that does everything auto, but it's missing parts. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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Jan 5, 2012 18:00
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Stuntman posted:Amoeba is considered the best, so look into finding one near you.
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I think part of the problem is also that record companies want to sell an image more than they want to sell music. Take a look at Kings of Leon. When they first started out, they were these kinda scraggly looking country dudes making gritty, original, upbeat southern rock. Once they switched to a major label, they become these stylish pretty boys and now all of their music sounds exactly the same, and may as well be Coldplay or something. Lana Del Rey is another good example. No one had heard of her last summer when her first single was released, and almost immediately afterward, she's featured on magazine covers, getting her two songs played constantly, music videos, the whole shebang. She was even on SNL this weekend, despite not even having an album out yet. Because her music isn't what's for sale, her look and style are. If you saw her SNL performance, you know that's pretty much all she has going for her outside of the studio. Still, even with all the manufactured garbage out there, there are plenty of artists who make really quality albums consistently.
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My Joyful Noise flexi-disc showed up today, but instead of the box, it came with a little note saying they're sending the box out next month.  On the plus side, the note has a little hand drawn apology cartoon thing, so that's kinda cool.Edit: Good track, too. I've never really listened to Lou Barlow before, but part of the reason I signed up for this is to hear artists I wouldn't normally hear. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jan 20, 2012 |
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Jan 20, 2012 02:13
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CPL593H posted:I liked the little drawing. It adds a nice personal touch instead of the "gently caress you give us your money" attitude everything has these days. Yeah, I'm going to keep the note in the box when it comes. It's definitely a nice touch for them to do something like that.
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Jan 20, 2012 06:21
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Ron Burgundy posted:The reason you don't hear much about extension cords for turntable leads is because the turntable-amplifier connection is extremely susceptible to the introduction of noises and should be kept as short as possible. The signal along this run is really really weak and it massively amplified at the receiver. Any introduced noise on this section is also greatly amplified. If you really must do it you will also need to run a ground wire. Any small gauge wire should do the trick. I think this is happening to me, even though my cords are all pretty short. I've been noticing that when I have my receiver on the Phono setting, it's picking up radio signals. It's faint, but enough that I can hear it in the silence between tracks or when I don't have something loud playing. Would adding a ground wire get rid of this?
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the posted:So wait, this album by Bjork is considered rare? I've had it forever and not realized this. In fact I'd never listened to it until today. Bjork has been putting out albums since 1977?  I guess I had no idea how old she was. That's pretty crazy, dawg.
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MokBa posted:To be fair, she was only 12. Right, which makes it even more impressive. That's a long career for anyone, let alone someone who started before most people have even figured out who they are and what they want out of life. I knew she had been in music school since she was very young, I just didn't realize she had been creating for that long.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I snagged Shepherd's Dog. I've never heard this one! I think it's easily his best album. My favorite anyway, alongside the Woman King EP. I got my fuchsia Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks last week and have been greatly enjoying it. Also on the way from good ol' Norway, White Willow - Terminal Twilight. I've always wanted to take some record porn shots, so I'll probably wait for that one to show up and post it. Can't wait!
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I've ordered a few LPs from Amazon and they've arrived in perfect condition. Their packaging is really good.
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Do you buy a lot of things on ebay? I think if you buy things too frequently, they'll shut your account down, or at least limit you because of some fraud prevention jazz. You might be able to get in touch with them and be like, "can I have my account back please?"
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My only problem with Joyful Noise is the grammatical error in their shipment notifications: "You're order has shipped." I am!? Oh boy!
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Haha, well at least that one kinda makes sense.
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Got my Joyful Noise box today and it's really cool. Much nicer than I expected, really. Still waiting on that goddamn White Willow LP. Why do things have to take so long to ship from Norway?
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CPL593H posted:I'm still waiting for mine. Would you mind posting a picture? I've been dying to see what the boxes look like.    I might have my front cover on upside down in that first image, but that's how it was when I got it, so I'm sticking with it.
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Ron Burgundy posted:So wait, are the discs actually real flexis just like the lovely ones you used to get in Readers Digest where you had to put a coin on the label to make sure your changers 500 gram tonearm didn't stop the thing from actually turning. They had the fidelity of AM radio being transmitted over CB radio. Is this some new trend I've somehow missed? I don't know about a trend, but it's kind of a quirky fun thing. I haven't had any issues playing mine without a coin, and the sound quality is acceptable. I think the biggest issue for me is static, as I'm in a dry environment and it builds up super easy on thin plastic like that. Here are a few recent purchases, because my White Willow LP finally came: 
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:That Gainsbourg album owns. JohnnyWarbucks posted:Was it just me, or was anyone else disappointed in February's selection? The song was OK, but I just didn't imagine they would be releasing live recordings in this series. Seemed like they just sort of copped out by taking a live recording from a show.
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Rama Lama Magnus posted:So is White Willow even known abroad? Because in Norway they are sadly pretty much ignored. I got into them when I heard Terminal Twilight compared to Leprous' Bilateral, which I love. No one I know had ever heard of them before, though. I imagined they would be big in Norway, considering their discography, so it sucks to hear that they're not. I'd definitely love some recommendations.
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Rama Lama Magnus posted:Norwegian vinyl: Been listening to Phantom Stimulance on Spotify, and it's right up my alley. Very cool stuff, thanks for the rec! I'm definitely going to have to hunt down some of this guy's records.
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Really hoping to get a copy of the Mastodon/Feist 7". That sounds kickass.
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