postjack

werd. what table are you looking at? they say that vinyl is king.

Its a fantastic looking set. Worth $45? Well, for that price I would have expected a slightly beefier case, but its plenty durable. I would think $35 would be more reasonable, but hell vinyl is pricey these days, so I can't complain. The good news is that the vinyl sounds great, only a few pops in the first track, from then on its quiet. The vinyl is thick, heavy, and perfectly flat. As far as sound comparisons go, I feel the CD has more punchy impact, more visceral immediacy. The vinyl doesn't make me want to "rock out" like when I'm cranking the CD . Typically I find the vinyl version of any album to be more visceral, but on this album it isn't the case. What you get in return is a surprising liquidity, considering this is a DDA, and the deep bass notes reach waaaay down low. This liquidity and deep bass makes the album sound slower and more PRaT-ty. Its like I feel like at any moment the record is about to slip into slow-motion, but it never does And no this isn't speed issues with my table, cause I have a technics. even die-hard DD haters will tell you the 1200 has perfect speed. What this all adds up to is a very involving listening experience that is different from the CD. If one has a vinyl rig, and loves this album, and is willing to spend the money, I recommend it.

i'm not the biggest radiohead, but I believe in what they are doing. I placed my preorder for the digital download last week. I paid 3 pounds (6 bucks). If its any good, I'll buy the discbox, which ships Dec. 3, according to the website (I thought it was originally slated for later this month?). I hope this is what we are moving towards. Who the hell needs record companies? Basically all they are is overpaid promoters who don't even like music. fuck 'em, straight from artist to the consumer, I love it.

Winding Wheel is a great audition track, but if I had to choose one from HB MFSL it would be: Ryan Adams - Oh My Sweet Carolina Also: Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights (entire first half of album, CD and LP. its just so exquisitely recorded, so alive and clear but raw) Genesis - Squonk (both album version and "Seconds Out" version) Genesis - Afterglow Bob Marley - Natural Mystic (MFSL) Phish - Punch You In The Eye / The Sloth (NYE 2005, SB commercial release) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia/Sincerely Dian (MFSL) George Kawaguchi's "Big 4" (XRCD 20bit K2) - whole album (this is actually a brand new audition cd for me, thanks reks) Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks 5 CD 2 - Estimated Prophet Joy Division - Closer (whole album) Medeski Martin & Wood - I Wanna Ride You (and other tracks off Uninvisible) Pink Floyd - Meddle (silver harvest OR mfsl, whole album) Soft Machine - 5th (recent japanese DSD remaster, first few tracks) And slowly some of these new Widespread Panic SBs are making their way into the audition tracks list.

oh, he said twenty-nine. Christ he's so insane.

Ah, okay. I remember someone putting them up for sale almost immediately after he had them refurbished, I couldn't remember if it was 003 and he took them off the market, or juzmister. I'm pretty sure your right though, I recall now if was juz. BTW, did you get your name from the Malazan series of books? There is a character in there named Icarium.

he's 82 years old?! or was it 72?

okay, I misread your first post.

dude, he's been clean since Exciter. basically thats what his first solo album (Paper Monsters) was all about.

holla, preorder it. songs: http://www.myspace.com/davegahanofficial

Finally watched episode one. Classic episode, no doubt. "You don't know me, you've just seen my penis."

I'm all for new features, but unfortunately I'm a black theme kind of guy. :'( But I'll go with the crowd on this one if a white theme is preferred.

nate is a total MOT. i bought some speaker wire from him, and he made me pay what he paid for the wire and the connectors, AND pay for shipping. So basically the only thing I got for free from him was the labor (terminating the wire and attaching the locking banana plugs and heatshrinking them so they look all nice), his additional time spent boxing up the wire and taking it to the post office, and his patient, friendly, and professional advice.

i use imageshack, with the imageshack toolbar in firefox. Its fantastic. My favorite part is being able to rightclick any picture on the web and upload it to imageshack, very handy.

they were that super beat up pair that went for $700 on eBay. He did indeed get them refurbed by Alex.

no, i am tough. perhaps you missed the <--- that is the tough face.

don't get smart with me, boy. make me come over there and smack your mouth.

I hate to say this, but typically I have found that the more resolving my rig becomes, the harder it is to listen to brickwalled/max gained modern recordings. \

grrr, i already changed my bookmark! i can name one place where this will never be happening.

okay, due to popular demand, this thread has been unlocked!

kk, all done here, thread locked.

Link To Audiocubes Thoughts?

So I just bought two albums that I first heard about in the "What Are You Listen To" per jpak's posts: and It was actually watching the video on the amazon page that made me realize I absolutely had to own Mirrored. Check it out, its gnarly as hell: [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Mirrored-Battles/dp/B000OLHGBQ]http://www.amazon.com/Mirrored-Battles/dp/B000OLHGBQ[/ame]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It was actually your dissension on the D5000 that stopped me from buying a pair sound-unheard. I'm sure I'll hear the D5000 or D2000 eventually, and no matter what I think of them then, its always nice to have someone present the opposite side of the story on a piece of gear.

I'm going to try to do like jpak, and post albums that were seminal in my development as a music snob. Okay, so I was 11-12 years old, I think (6th grade), when I first heard this album. A buddy of mine had snagged a cassette tape dub from his older, cooler, pot smoking brother. None of our parents would let us buy the album since it had pot leaves all over it. Hell I still remember what the track listing looked like on the label in the cassette, all scrawled out in my buddy's distinctive goofy handwriting. Of course I'd seen the videos for "Dre Day" and "Nuthin But A G Thing" on MTV, but they left so much up to the imagination, what with half the video bleeped n' blurred out. Even after listening to it, I had no idea what half the words meant. Hell, I was in pre-adolescence. But to this day that album has stuck to my ribs: its flow, its beats, its sense of mystery and utter cool confidence falling from the lips of Dre and Snoop with apparent ease. Sure, it depicted a violent gangster fantasy world I knew nothing about, but coming to a kid who's favorite book was Clive Barker's Imajica, in hindsight parallels are easily drawn between the two fictional worlds rooted in reality presented so well by both artists. Dre brought melody to hip-hop, and in doing so he brought it to the masses. For better or worse, this makes it one of my all time favorite albums.