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| Do you know why Rich,I have heard such comments before, but it certainly has not been the case in my experience. Record after record, new vinyl is flawed in one way or another, most frequently warped, while record after record, old vinyl I get is flat with some e... | |
| Dump Your 401K, Invest in records How ironic that most of Atlantic reissues are garbage, at least the cheaper jazz reissues, just like the rest. Of all people, with 750,000,000 records, he should know what a well-recorded, well-pressed vinyl record should sound like. At his salary... | |
| Quality of Analogue Productions pressings I emailed AS, and after about a week of waiting, I received a nice response from an individual email account at AS, apologizing for my disappointment and offering to exchange the record. I responded the same day asking to clarify shipping charges,... | |
| Why does most new music suck? Goose,Thank you for putting the record straight. I guess after nearly two months and nine pages' worth of posts, the full content of your original post got lost in the discussion. I'm still surprised nobody put their finger on it earlier though. L... | |
| Why does most new music suck? Toddnkaya,It pays to read the thread before you respond, my man. My response was to Donjr's post about air guitar. I took it to be a metaphor for getting excited about the music. If he meant it literally, oh well...I'm actually surprised that the ... | |
| Why does most new music suck? The problem is most of new (contemporary) music doesn't make me want to stand up and play air guitar like older stuff does. It just makes me turn it off...It has nothing to do with laziness. As a side comment, a LOT of contemporary artists shoot t... | |
| Why does most new music suck? You mean from the classic menu? :) | |
| Why does most new music suck? Mapman,I don't understand your point in this post at all. First of all, in my case, I'm not an old guy as I pointed out before. The classic rock and pop music was not "my music" when I was growing up; it was not made by my peers, and I was not the... | |
| Why does most new music suck? CsontosBad analogy. Nobody wants the same gourmet meal every night.It's a great analogy. The point of the analogy is that whether you want to eat the same gourmet meal every night or not, that meal is still a gourmet meal, not something mediocre ... | |
| Why does most new music suck? Snore. I grew up listening to The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and so on. I listen to The Beatles, Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones once a year. I can't stand The Who or The Doors anymore. I can't listen to the same stuff thousands of times any ... | |
| SoundSmith Counter Intuitive For VPI Arms Here we go again...But seriously, what Doug said. The thing is well worth the money. | |
| Quality of Analogue Productions pressings Roscoe,Relax. It works with certain companies, and it doesn't with others. For example, you cannot return a Because Sound Matters record to them unless you bought it directly from them. I didn't buy my AP record from Acoustic Sounds so I asked Dod... | |
| Quality of Analogue Productions pressings Thank you all for your feedback. Dodgealum, thank you for sharing your negative experience, and unfortunately confirming my suspicion that mine was not an isolated case as there were just too many issues that to me indicated lack of QC consistency... | |
| Need Advice on Checking Stylus Fremer in his review of the Anna cartridge wrote that a worn-out [extreme contact] stylus should do no damage to the vinyl unless it's chipped. His logic was that a typical wear of the stylus simply makes it duller, not sharper. I've always wonder... | |
| Why does most new music suck? Mapman,I'm 40-years-old and "some of those who are currently down on most new music." Many of the bands and artists I listen to and like were no longer in existence when I was born. I might not be a typical advocate for the superiority of older mu... |