Whats on your turntable tonight?

@slaw : I did not know that Montrose played on that album. Good info. I have an early pressing but paid $20. It sounds pretty good though.

"Nothing about the The Teskey Brothers (lp) is compressed!"

Excellent. At $11 its a steal then. As tomic601 mentioned it is on back order right now but hopefully that won’t last. I might even check my local record store. It will cost more but I like to support local business when I can.

@tomic601 ,

I don’t know how much you delved into Chris Isaak further, but, going forward, you will never be disappointed!

Not to break a tie, what I suspect you are hearing is the compression you get naturally by pushing the tube microphone preamps and the tape deck, which is NOT the same thing as modern CD’s with global compression applied.

you can clearly hear this on a few tracks near start of album
i streamed it on Tidal
will check analog LP when I get it

i thought intentional production when I heard it... I can and have got same effect with my Royer ribbons, Fern preamps into the Revox

while there is a bit of margin, when it’s gone it goes to €£¥%# in a hurry...

fun

great to have these instant responses.

Excellent article by Allison Gallagher in Industry Observer - The Teskey Brothers a DIY Success Story

” ...and getting that crunch, that analog distortion when you’re running hot into the tape machine”....