NathanRicaud
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I’ll keep this in mind when I listen to my copy! Should be noticeable if the distortion is ‘brutal’! Hope your replacement copy is good!
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Nope. My copy is just perfect.
Honestly, it sounds like a worn neddle or cartridge misalignment.
Haha it's not. All my other albums sound perfect. Stylus is barely half a year old. It sounds exactly like what happens when one of my dogs hairs get stuck around my stylus, but no dog hair. BVSC sounds heavenly. Ghostface sounds digital but decent, as expected.
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ByersVinyl
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VMP have set up a new quality control Dept, a private address in Toronto and they don’t even pay the staff !
I get paid in pure unfiltered aggravation.
180 proof.
I drink their milkshake, I DRINK IT DOWN.
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Ethos99
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Man who knows, maybe it is my cart. But I can't imagine it would be if everything else sounds good. This amount of distortion, if it was misalignment, I gotta think most of my other vinyl would sound like crap too. But I have a spare stylus so I'll check that when I get home to at least remove wear from suspicion. But I'm pretty sure it's my copy of the album...Finally listening to mine and I'll report back.
Ethos99
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Well it's not just you. It doesn't happen continuously but there are electrical fizz and pops on the last few minutes every so often. Just like Shabaka.
Speaking of how was your Shabaka?
Same for Shabaka but much much less, and really only RIGHT at the end of the side. THANK FUCK IT'S NOT JUST ME. But that sucks and I'm sorry but thank you for letting me know. I was starting to second guess myself...
ThePakoBuelna
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My Shabaka was the same lol.
Ethos99
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I think about 75% of the VMP Shabaka's were like this. I haven't seen many people saying they actually got clean ones. Too bad because it sounds really good otherwise.
Wes C. Attle
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I think you guys all have Eustachian tube problems. That can make you hear pops and clicks
Whoaaaaa holy hell that third one is insane, it sounds like your amp is melting down. Thankfully mines not that bad, man.... This is why I maintain GZ is the worst pressing plant in the world. There are worse smaller plants but none that put out the volume that they do. They infect the entire vinyl world with their suck. I'd say 50% of the vinyl I get from them is badly screwed up in some way.
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Ethos99
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Shabaka was pressed at Hand Drawn. Is that also GZ?
Have you listened to Spiritualized 02a song 2 yet?
Pops all over for the first 20-30 seconds.
Ethos99
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Yes the 12 second clip sounds like the needle lost the groove for a bit.
That's odd because the black version is GZ, but no I don't think Hand Drawn is related to GZ. Either way, GZ SUCK.Shabaka was pressed at Hand Drawn. Is that also GZ?
Have you listened to Spiritualized 02a song 2 yet?
Pops all over for the first 20-30 seconds.
And no I didn't because side one was such a mess. But I'll check it later tonight, I'm sure It's awful.
At least he has a record to complain about! I’m still waiting on my shipping notice.
Not sure how VMP can expect me to renew at their “discounted” rate at the end of the month when they fail to send me the records I have already paid for. They’re kind of bad at what they do.
HuddieLedbetter
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So I just poked my head in to ask about A/B but I guess I have an answer.
My C/D are fine (not perfect, but well, fine) But A/B has 3-4 moments on each side of distortion (coming out as distinct layers of static on the right channel) that isn't great. I've accepted disappointed over the years, but this is my first heavy sound quality miss. I don't have great expectations of essentials (too much package over substance) but this is a shame -- especially when the c/d is such a contrast. I think I'm pretty forgiving, but well, bummer.
Edit: the contrast with the dead silence of the Sonny Rollins is the best simple expression of quality difference between plants I've heard....RTI ought to use it in an ad
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