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by **patient_ot** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:49 am

Rope Sect - The Great Flood FLAC
Legendary Pink Dots - The Golden Age LP
Durutti Column - Guitar and Other Machines - cassette
La Fraction ‎– Aussi Long Sera Le Chemin - cassette
Inkwizycja ‎– ...Na Własne Podobieństwo... - cassette

by **lewdd** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:06 am

I haven't listened to a full album in several weeks. The last few days I have been trying out a new integrated amp and phono pre amp by listening to a few vinyl tracks by:

The Specials
The Doors
Rolling Stones
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Duane Allman
Muddy Waters

I have also been streaming via Spotify, Amazon HD, and Sirius XM to see how they sound through the new gear.

Over the next few days, I will spin some punk vinyl to see how that sounds with and without the Schiit Loki.

by **scannest** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:12 pm

Neil Young had entered into some agreement with Amazon because he claims their HD streaming is better quality than anyone else offering a similar product. And he really seems to care about such matters.

by **lewdd** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:14 pm

scannest wrote:Neil Young had entered into some agreement with Amazon because he claims their HD streaming is better quality than anyone else offering a similar product. And he really seems to care about such matters.

Yeah, he seems to be really critical about that. At one point, he had his own digital walkman type device because he felt there wasn't a good digital one out there that sounded like analog or something like that. He has a huge archives website with all of his stuff in HD format. I just read somewhere (probably Rolling Stone article about the new archives vol 2) where he changed his thoughts on how he was going to rerelease his archive material.

by **version sound** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:51 pm

Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets
Circle Jerks - Golden Shower of Hits
Beatles - Past Masters
Black Flag - Everything Went Black
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
Bob Marley - Selassie is the Chapel
DJ Trace w/MC Dub2 live at Where The Wild Things Are 10.7.96

by **patient_ot** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 12:59 pm

Outre Tomb - Repurgation - tape
Nahash - Wellone Aeternitas - tape
Hailu Merga + Dahlak Band - Wede Harer Guzo - tape
Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus - tape
Acid - S/T - tape

by **version sound** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 1:23 pm

Jane’s Addiction - S/T
Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Jane’s Addiction - Strays
Jane’s Addiction - Cabinet of Curiosities

by **drew** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:02 pm

version sound wrote:Jane’s Addiction - S/T
Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Jane’s Addiction - Strays
Jane’s Addiction - Cabinet of Curiosities

Hey! The 90’s called........(I don’t have a punchline)

by **version sound** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:54 pm

drew wrote:
version sound wrote:Jane’s Addiction - S/T
Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Jane’s Addiction - Strays
Jane’s Addiction - Cabinet of Curiosities

Hey! The 90’s called........(I don’t have a punchline)

I rarely make it past the ‘90s these days.

by **xxxMidgexxx** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:47 pm

Bob Mould 'Blue Hearts'
Moving Targets 'Humbucker'
The Black Watch 'Brilliant Failures'
Sepultura 'Quadra'
Napalm Death 'Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism'

by **patient_ot** » Tue Oct 06, 2020 11:50 am

Crow - Last Chaos - tape
Asta Kask - singles comp - tape
Soberania Personal - tape
Death Side - Wasted Dream - FLAC
Death Side - Bet on the Possibility - FLAC

by **earthdog70** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:14 pm

The Last In Line-II-CD
Gameface-Every Last Time-CD
Date Bait-I Split on Your Grave-CD
Judas Priest-Firepower-CD
Duck and Cover-Rob Them Blind-CD

:ugeek:

by **patient_ot** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:08 am

Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker - LP
Government Issue - You - tape
Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue - tape
Illusion of Safety - Surrender - tape
Wedding Present - BBC Sessions - tape

by **version sound** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:46 pm

Van Halen - S/T
Social Distortion - Mommy’s Little Monster
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Love - Forever Changes (mono)
Suicidal Tendencies - S/T

by **version sound** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:50 pm

patient_ot wrote:Crow - Last Chaos - tape
Death Side - Wasted Dream - FLAC
Death Side - Bet on the Possibility - FLAC

That’s some seriously choice Japanese hardcore. I was bummed when I found out that Prank reissued Last Chaos on vinyl and I totally missed it. I have the Anarchy, Chaos, and Destruction CD, though, so I didn’t really NEED it.

by **xxxMidgexxx** » Fri Oct 16, 2020 12:08 pm

version sound wrote:
patient_ot wrote:Crow - Last Chaos - tape
Death Side - Wasted Dream - FLAC
Death Side - Bet on the Possibility - FLAC

That’s some seriously choice Japanese hardcore. I was bummed when I found out that Prank reissued Last Chaos on vinyl and I totally missed it. I have the Anarchy, Chaos, and Destruction CD, though, so I didn’t really NEED it.

TIGHT!

by **patient_ot** » Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:47 pm

version sound wrote:
patient_ot wrote:Crow - Last Chaos - tape
Death Side - Wasted Dream - FLAC
Death Side - Bet on the Possibility - FLAC

That’s some seriously choice Japanese hardcore. I was bummed when I found out that Prank reissued Last Chaos on vinyl and I totally missed it. I have the Anarchy, Chaos, and Destruction CD, though, so I didn’t really NEED it.

That CD is seriously difficult to find these days. I just wanted a physical copy, and the vinyl went fast so I grabbed the tape. It was good timing since I recently acquired another tape deck and can play tapes through the stereo again.

I bought the Feral Ward LP reissues of the Death Side stuff a few years ago but wanted digital copies so I bought the FLACs from Qobuz. Unfortunately they are compressed within an inch of their life, just like a lot of newer Japanese hardcore. I'd love to get the original Death Side CDs, but again, hard to find and very expensive these days.

By the way, Prank is going to be pressing more LP copies of the Crow reissue. The packaging will be different and it will be a few months probably.

They also recently reissued one of Totalitar's best albums, but I already have the old Prank CD so I didn't get that one.

Prank is/was a very good label. I hope they get going again with more regular releases.

by **version sound** » Sat Oct 17, 2020 12:00 am

They repressed the Crow CD not too long ago. I think I had to order it from Japan, though. I’m pretty sure the Death Side CDs were repressed recently, too. I used to buy a lot of Prank stuff, then it seemed like they disappeared for a few years. They were supposedly going to do a Septic Death discography, but it doesn’t seem like that’s ever going to happen.

UPDATE: Record Shop Base has the Crow CD and the Death Side CDs.

UPDATED UPDATE: Looks like those Death Side CDs are the BTR reissues, which are probably as bad or worse than the FLAC files. The recent Rocky & The Sweden CD is loud AF.

by **patient_ot** » Sat Oct 17, 2020 1:19 pm

version sound wrote:They repressed the Crow CD not too long ago. I think I had to order it from Japan, though. I’m pretty sure the Death Side CDs were repressed recently, too. I used to buy a lot of Prank stuff, then it seemed like they disappeared for a few years. They were supposedly going to do a Septic Death discography, but it doesn’t seem like that’s ever going to happen.

UPDATE: Record Shop Base has the Crow CD and the Death Side CDs.

UPDATED UPDATE: Looks like those Death Side CDs are the BTR reissues, which are probably as bad or worse than the FLAC files. The recent Rocky & The Sweden CD is loud AF.

Last time I ordered CDs from Japan it was very expensive. I might do an order once a year now if I'm lucky. I haven't heard the recent Rocky and The Sweden album, but the last albums by Nightmare and Forward were brickwalled and compressed badly. I can tolerate it when the music is good, and those albums are, but if there is an older pressing that's within reach price wise, I'd try to get that instead. Unfortunately the early Death Side CDs are HTF and expensive now.

Prank did slow down for a few years. The story I heard was that they got screwed over by their pressing plant (Rainbo - now closed) and it cost them a lot of $$$ to get all their metalwork back from the plant (palettes of it). Then they switched plants (to Bill Smith), only to have that plant close down after a year. Now they are using RTI but their release schedule has slowed a bit for a variety of reasons I'm sure.

My understanding re: the Septic Death release, which was "in the works" 20 years ago, is that the problems and delays have nothing to do with Prank at all, and are entirely the fault of Pushead or whatever ex-members of the band are still alive. I wouldn't count on it happening either.

Prank is worth following on social media or however you want to do it. I suspect they have some good stuff coming eventually.

by **patient_ot** » Sat Oct 17, 2020 3:55 pm

The Cure - Faith LP
Lowlife - Diminuendo LP
Shonen Knife - s/t tape comp of first 2 albums
Wargasm - Why Play Around? tape
Anti-Cimex - Scandinavian Jawbreaker CD

by **lewdd** » Sat Oct 17, 2020 3:55 pm

Looks like you are breaking in that cassette deck you just hooked up

by **patient_ot** » Sat Oct 17, 2020 4:55 pm

lewdd wrote:Looks like you are breaking in that cassette deck you just hooked up

Ha, yeah. Pulling out some old tapes and a few new ones, though some of the "new" ones are sealed cutouts and NOS from the 80s and 90s. My brother has some more tapes in storage so I asked him to check what he has for me.

by **lewdd** » Sat Oct 17, 2020 6:01 pm

I just can't get myself to believe that a cassette sounds better than vinyl. I wouldn't be surprised if a cassette sounds better than a CD though. I have no idea how the Dolby on/off impacts the sound of the cassette though. Would be interested to hear your perspective.

by **patient_ot** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:29 am

lewdd wrote:I just can't get myself to believe that a cassette sounds better than vinyl. I wouldn't be surprised if a cassette sounds better than a CD though. I have no idea how the Dolby on/off impacts the sound of the cassette though. Would be interested to hear your perspective.

Cassettes are just a fun/nostalgia thing for me. I wouldn't call them hi-fi for the most part. I grew on them and they were my primary format for a number of years. Back when I was a teenager, I used to tape all my vinyl and CDs onto cassette and listen to them through a Walkman.

In terms of a purely technical perspective, both vinyl and cassette tapes are inferior to CD.

RE: Dolby Noise Reduction that stuff is tricky. Dolby B and C will filter out a bit of noise but also make the music sound lifeless in some cases. I've experimented with it but generally don't use it unless I have a pre-recorded tape that was made with it. If I make tapes for other people, I generally leave Dolby off entirely.

Now, another issue with tape is the quality of blank media currently available. Not just to home users but tape duplication factories as well. No one makes type 2 or type 4 tape anymore. If you see anyone selling type 2 or 4 tapes, they are either NOS, or NOS pancake reels put into newer shells. When the latter is done, often times the NOS reels are used to fill lower quality type 1 shells. And then there is the issue of how the pancake reels were stored over the years - sometimes they are screwed up from that. You can buy type 2 blanks on eBay all day but they usually start at $5 a pop and can easily go up to the $10-20 each range depending on the brand/model. Type 1 blanks for consumers are still available, but starting to dry up, and the prices are rising.

by **version sound** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:31 pm

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Rowland S. Howard - Teenage Snuff Film
Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun
Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral
Come - Near Life Experience

Bonus:

Social Distortion - Mommy’s Little Monster

by **patient_ot** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:18 pm

Hysteria Ward - From Breakfast to Madness LP
Anti-Cimex - Absolut Country of Sweden CD
Krakatoa - Channel Static Blackout CD
Nightmare - Blood Sucker Years CD
Jazz Mixtape I made

by **xxxMidgexxx** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 1:56 am

Television (self titled 3rd album. I think it's my favorite from them)
Snow Patrol 'Eyes Open'
Deftones 'Ohms' (new album)
War Babies (demo LP)
Faithless 'Reverence'

by **earthdog70** » Sat Oct 24, 2020 2:01 pm

Lazycame-Finebegin-CD
Dinosaur Jr.-Swedish Fist-LP
Shades Apart-Eternal Echo-LP
The Sharpshooters-Self-Titled-CD EP
Saxon-Sacrifice-CD

:arrow:

by **patient_ot** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:58 am

Crimson Glory - Transcendence CD
Howard Devoto - Jerky Versions of the Dream LP
Hard Response - Single Bullet Theory CD
Telescopes - s/t/2nd LP
Woody Shaw - Little Red's Fantasy LP

by **xxxMidgexxx** » Thu Nov 05, 2020 9:51 pm

Sleep 'The Sciences'
Controlled Bleeding 'Body Samples Vol 1'
G.I.S.M 'Detestation'
Pan Sonic 'various tracks...'
NIN 'With Teeth'

by **version sound** » Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:30 pm

Circle Jerks - Group Sex
SS Decontrol - Get It Away
G.I.S.M. - Detestation
Television - Adventure
Television - S/T

by **scannest** » Fri Nov 06, 2020 9:11 am

TEENAGE HEAD - Fun Comes Fast
OLD 97's - Twelfth
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Letter to You
LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES - 2-4-6-8 Motorway E.P.
PRETENDERS - II (with that amazing live show they threw on as a bonus CD)

by **lewdd** » Fri Nov 06, 2020 9:43 am

scanny, do you like Pretenders II better than Pretender I?

by **scannest** » Fri Nov 06, 2020 10:37 am

lewdd wrote:scanny, do you like Pretenders II better than Pretender I?

Noooooo, but this recent re-listen convinced me it's not nearly the huge drop-off in quality I always thought it was. It's more of a Van Halen to Van Halen II drop in quality.

by **patient_ot** » Sun Nov 08, 2020 11:46 am

V/A - Annexe - Cottage Industries 2 Comp. - Neo Ouija Records FLAC
Institution - Domen Ar Satt LP
Humant Blod Flykten Från Verkligheten 7''
Duke Pearson - The Phantom LP
Woob - Tokyo Substrate Paradox FLAC

by **version sound** » Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:46 am

Whirlpool - S/T
Shades Apart - Save It
CIV - Set Your Goals
Hum - Inlet
Jimi Hendrix - Songs for Groovy Children

by **lewdd** » Sat Nov 14, 2020 9:25 am

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged LP
Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker LP
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - S/T LP
Hank Mobley - Soul Station LP
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue LP

by **FlexMyHead** » Sat Nov 14, 2020 8:45 pm

I just listened to the first pressing of Husker Du's "Eight Miles High" 7" about nine times in a row. That fucking song hits me so hard when Bob is just wailing. I couldn't wait till it was over so I could pick up the needle, which doesn't make sense, but it does.

by **patient_ot** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 11:21 am

Yusef Kamal - Black Focus LP
Raveonettes - Observator CD
The Gary Burton Quintet with Eberhard Weber ‎– Ring LP
Gigi Gryce - Rat Race Blues LP
Box set of Schumann Symphonies - LP 1

by **earthdog70** » Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:52 pm

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists-The Brutalist Bricks-CD
The Pursuit of Happiness-Brave New Waves Session-LP
Banner Pilot-Hearts Beats Pacific-CD
Shot Baker-Crack The Code-CD
St. Vitus Dance-Glypotheque-CD

:arrow:

by **xxxMidgexxx** » Sun Nov 22, 2020 8:57 pm

Holy Rollers 'As Is'
Holy Rollers 'Fabuley'
Holy Rollers '3rd s/t' LP
Bowie 'Ziggy....'
Bowie 'Aladdin Sane'

by **xxxMidgexxx** » Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:01 pm

earthdog70 wrote:Shot Baker-Crack The Code-CD

They played Brooklyn opening for Naked Raygun years ago. I thought Shot Baker were INCREDIBLE. I bought the Awake LP and didn't take it off the turntable for weeks.

by **version sound** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 4:28 pm

Galaxy 500 - Today
Galaxy 500 - On Fire
Galaxy 500 - This Is Our Music
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland-off (1968 Reprise vs. 2010 remaster - spoiler alert: both are good but the complete lack of surface noise on the 2010 put it over the top).

by **earthdog70** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:59 pm

Yep Midge-I saw the same tour in Baltimore at the Ottobar in 2009. That was the one time I met Pierre Kezdy. Tony the singer is a good guy I hung with him at a couple Riot Fests.

by **patient_ot** » Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:35 am

Big Star - #1 Record LP
Comsat Angels - Chasing Shadows LP
Patrice Rushen - Straight From the Heart LP
Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain CD
Targets - Massenhysterie LP

RN: Puressence - s/t FLAC

by **xxxMidgexxx** » Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:15 pm

patient_ot wrote:Comsat Angels - Chasing Shadows LP

Good!

by **patient_ot** » Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:47 pm

xxxMidgexxx wrote:
patient_ot wrote:Comsat Angels - Chasing Shadows LP

Good!

Yes it is, and very underrated IMHO. A big comeback after the 2 weak synthpop albums they made just before it.

by **version sound** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 12:30 pm

Scream - NMC17
Bad Brains - Live at the Fillmore
Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Jimi Hendrix Experience aka the purple box (the whole damn thing)
Bad Brains - ROIR
Bad Brains - Rock For Light
Bad Brains - I Against I

by **patient_ot** » Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:18 am

Sidewinders - Witchdoctor CD
Sidewinders - Auntie Ramos' Pool Hall CD
Incubus (Opprobrium) - Serpent Temptation CD (original version)
Cast - All Change CD
Marion - This World and Body CD

by **version sound** » Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:38 pm

Swervedriver - Petroleum Spirit Daze
Swervedriver - Honey Heavens Above
The Cult - Dreamtime
Mourn - Ha Ha He
Swervedriver - Youth at the Summit

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