New Pink Floyd vinyl reissues

I beg your pardon, but I don't see a box here, just a (n massivere overprized) bundle..

 

Not strange ... just in time for Christmas. Bet they sold a bunch of these bundles.

 

Cut at a lower volume? Turn up the volume.

Not as much bump? Turn up the bass. Oh wait, that's right ... a lot of people have convinced themselves that tone controls or EQ are the devil incarnate.

 

Many people don't have tone controls. What's your suggestion for them?

 

I dunno, Jon, an external EQ, maybe? Which at one point were extremely popular? There's got to be a better solution than hunting down an exact pressing of an LP that matches ones preferences for bass, midrange and treble, or going to huge lengths to change the loading on a cartridge.

I swear, half the problems people moan about on this board would go away if they would just put their hands on the tone controls.

 

Disagree completely, I have to say.

On a good audio system you get good sound with a good source, not the other way around.

Sure, if you have a poorly designed audio system with severely flawed or biased playback, then some upstream solution like EQ might help, but that's like killing flies with a hammer breaking the wall they're sitting on.

I seriously doubt (like 100%) that you can get the 2016 Animals reissue to punch like the UK original with EQ alone. You can change the tone, you can even immerse the sound in loose bass, but that dense layer of sound is not going to just born out of some EQ box...

 

I don't think the EQ thing is really an option. I think the answer is simply find a pressing that suits your tastes better. This site is a fantastic resource for that.
If somebody doesn't like this new one... why mock their personal tastes, and tell them they should just make do with it?

 

Fine, disagree.

Straw man. I haven't done either.

 

You seem to get kinda mad if someone dislikes some of these releases.

If I'm wrong, what prompted you to write that last post? Just friendly random thoughts you wanted to share with the forum?

 

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Fella, you're the one who keeps taking things personally when you feel your preferences about these releases are mocked. I don't get mad. I get boggled, sure, when really good releases get rubbished.

Anyway, this is eking over into the personal side of things, so let's just agree that we don't see eye-to-eye on this and move on.

 

Hard to fix whats broke - after the fact with knob twirling!
Just sayin'.....

 

Yet we have many people on this forum who proudly proclaim they've used audio editing software to adjust the EQ on CDs. Even our host has provided EQ fixes for releases such as the Ryko Bowie CDs. What is that, if not knob-twiddling (or slider-moving)?

Hell, mastering itself is knob-twiddling.

 

There's a BIG difference between Audio Production and Audio Reproduction.

 

Not having any pressing of Animals...I look forward to it's arrival at my door next week.

 

Aye, cap'n.

 

Buy a $2400 powered subwoofer. Bass you can feel throughout your whole whole being without the low end muddiness.

 

Fk is it cold here right now....jeezuz

 

Man, Bernie did a good job with WYWH, those wine glasses sound like they are in the room at the beginning of 'Shine On'.....

 

You do hear yourself....right? And you are still cool with it?

 

Not my favorite remastered from the bunch, but yes this part stands out! Tempranillo or Cabernet anyone?

 

I was just thinking the same thing....but compared to where you are....I should just shut up!!!!!

 

Have you tried the 5.1 layer of the SACD? That is an interesting listen, and I'm not a surround fan.

 

I was using the term loosely. the absence of an actual box doesn't really affect my point.