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Post by daved on Nov 1, 2018 13:42:20 GMT
Little Richard made some of the most engaging, exciting music ever recorded. By audiophile standards it all sounds like shit, but I wouldn't want to swap it for something with 30dBs of dynamic range. Back when he had a job, Hoffman did some first-time stereo mixes of Chuck Berry's Chess material. The mixes are fundamentally decent - sounds like he got an engineer to lace the 3-track up, pushed the faders up and simply dubbed to stereo - but when they first came out they sounded weak and lifeless when heard next to the mono material. There was a book - I think it was "Rock on Compact Disc" - which singled them out, saying that while the remixes were beautifully clean, they sounded as if they had been recorded in an operating theatre. It's interesting to note that every subsequent issue of his remixes I've heard has benefitted from a bit of dynamic compression. I had a few of his CCR discs and he turned them into mush. Ball-less. Same with the Heart greatest hits that either him or Kevin whats his nuts did. Ripped anything that made them worth listening to right out of the mixes.
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Post by vinylaids on Nov 3, 2018 14:49:23 GMT
Electric Ladyland sounds fucking great, some of you guys sound like my old avatard on Stereo Central with a bunch of geezers passed out listening to Steely Dan. Not to get overly SHitey
Nah, you're doing a fine job of it.
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Post by graucho on Nov 24, 2018 15:16:50 GMT
A guy poated about finding a rare Led Zeppelin IV 'target' CD (Japan), and people are suggesting it would fetch around $1,000. Good on him if it did, but I can't find much info to suggest that anyone has bought one for a high price. In fact, most of those 'target' CDs sell for not a lot. It seems SHF is pretty much responsible for putting out the idea that these CDs are sought after, special and valuable. Does anyone know of anyone who paid a lotta money for one?
Edit, on second thoughts maybe this should go in 'unleash thy inner shite'.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Nov 24, 2018 15:54:21 GMT
I have an overwhelming temptation to start a thread about getting a 'target' CD of some random album in order to send SHiTEs scurrying to find it, but then reveal that I meant I bought it in Target.
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Post by graucho on Nov 24, 2018 18:33:04 GMT
I have an overwhelming temptation to start a thread about getting a 'target' CD of some random album in order to send SHiTEs scurrying to find it, but then reveal that I meant I bought it in Target That would be funny, but it would probably get pulled, just like my recent 'Should Steven Wilson remix my mind?' thread did. They didn't seem to like that one.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Jun 13, 2020 7:23:16 GMT
Now these idiots are arguing about the value of Tom Port’s ears and desperately calling out the following bargains at his snake oil emporium (www.better-records.com, for the curious):
Marc Perman
Veech is at least smart enough to suspect this is all bullshit
EdogawaRampa
There’s a sucker born every minute.
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Post by audiopro on Jun 13, 2020 11:45:21 GMT
Mint is absolute. Mint minus is not mint. Fucking scalper.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Jun 13, 2020 11:59:05 GMT
Just in case you wanted to know more about this absolute chancer and his money-making machine (a six figure salary, no less), here's a short article: www.wired.com/2015/03/hot-stampers/Interesting to see he's so much of a prick that even Fremer thinks he's garbage.
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Felonious Spunk
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Jun 13, 2020 13:28:14 GMT
Just in case you wanted to know more about this absolute chancer and his money-making machine (a six figure salary, no less), here's a short article: www.wired.com/2015/03/hot-stampers/Interesting to see he's so much of a prick that even Fremer thinks he's garbage. I wouldn’t give Mikey too much credit there. He and Port run in the same “vinyl expert” lane and neither like competition.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2020 13:32:31 GMT
The dude marks a record at 7 on a scale of 1 to 10 as mint minus minus? I visit two used stores regularly and neither will mark anything mint or near mint unless it was a personally bought and owned copy by the owner. Sealed are marked sealed because, as they said, they have no idea if the record inside has flaws from the plant. Any vinyl that is opened is marked as very good plus because, as they said, it may be mint but they feel marking something mint gives false advertising.
I stopped reading when he was talking about his ratings for conditions. If memory fails they pull another copy to listen? The guy relies on his memory of how singeing sounds? I made it my whole life never knowing, or caring, and what part of the “life of a stamper” my music was pressed with so why should I start to care now? Besides, how the hell would one know if it was an old one or new one anyway - and who would care?
Gotta hand it to the guy and give credit where credit is due. He’s figured out a way to take advantage of the one born every minute.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2020 13:33:56 GMT
Just in case you wanted to know more about this absolute chancer and his money-making machine (a six figure salary, no less), here's a short article: www.wired.com/2015/03/hot-stampers/Interesting to see he's so much of a prick that even Fremer thinks he's garbage. I wouldn’t give Mikey too much credit there. He and Port run in the same “vinyl expert” lane and neither like competition. I think Fremer’s issue may be that Port is a little, uhm ... old for him. Had he been a 12 year old boy then perhaps Fremer would have more “patience” with him.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Jun 13, 2020 14:32:40 GMT
Going back to that thread, Veech also rightly points out that having a 'mint' sealed UK Revolver is impossible, since LPs weren't sealed in the UK in the 60s.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jun 14, 2020 0:34:29 GMT
Can Steve Hoffman legitimately claim to have coined the idiot phrase "tubey magic"? That certainly sounds like a patented golly-gee-whiz STeVE original moronicism. He probably stole it from an episode of The Donna Reed Show anyway. More likely, it was this guy:
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Post by ledzeppelin2rl on Jun 14, 2020 2:22:42 GMT
SHiTEs hate Fremer because he called them "wankers". Anyone who pisses them off is alright by me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2020 15:34:32 GMT
SHiTEs hate Fremer because he called them "wankers". Anyone who pisses them off is alright by me. Populism needs a bogeyman.
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