Haven't listened to the recent reissue but have heard it's decent. If you can find one in decent shape an original UK (one that appears wine red/translucent when held up to light) is hard to beat. Second place for me is the japanese pressing with catalogue number K18P-207/8. Sounds better than...
Just picked this up as a part of the Target B2G1 sale: The Cars – Heartbeat City (2018, Vinyl)
Sounds really really nice, mastered by RKS pressed at Record Industry. Disc of extras is worth having if you're a fan of the album
I picked this up a while back. Packaging is super bare bones but they were all pressed well and sounded nice to my ears. A good way to pick them all up in mono for pretty cheap. Whether or not pressing quality will remain good in the current vinyl climate remains to be seen...
To add to the recent Japan pressing craze I just ordered a bunch of albums off a seller on Ebay. Again somehow most of the records look cleaner than an album pressed yesterday. Haven't listened to them all yet but the standouts so far are:
Stevie Wonder – Talking Book (1977, Quiex II Pressing...
Anyone have surface noise on songs A1 and B1? I've had this same thing on two copies and I reached out to customer support and they're telling me its part of the recording. I'm cranking these songs on my streaming app and don't really hear any baked in noise...
Anyone else get their De La Soul preorders canceled? Ordered from popmarket and just got refunded. They're completely taken down from the site, not even listed as backorder like usual. Wonder if they ended up being boots...
Anyone have any opinions on this? https://www.discogs.com/Billy-Joel-52nd-Street/release/11753233
I've seen what seems to be a repress of this pop up in a few places but haven't seen anyone comment on the quality.
Yeah I went ahead and got a replacement and similar issue on this one. Its less noticeable on the replacement but still present so 🤷♂️. I can live with it, otherwise sounds amazing
Although the Santana is gone it seems Plaidroom also restocked a handful of other MoFis like TRex Electric Warrior, Grateful Dead Blues for Allah, Simon and Garfunkel PSR&T, Natalie Merchant Tigerlily. Maybe some others? Not sure