^ wait, why did you bring an odd musical instrument into the regression in music storage technology? XD

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alright, i received the Agalloch Wooden Box set in the post today. brief rundown: it's amazing, buy one while you still can if you like Agalloch and vinyl a lot and can drop the $200. haven't listened yet; will do so soon.

Got Infinity today. Amazon says it only has one vinyl, but it has 2. Is Physicist the same? Does anybody know why they're cheaper than the others?

Got Infinity today. Amazon says it only has one vinyl, but it has 2. Is Physicist the same? Does anybody know why they're cheaper than the others?

Physicist definitely is a single disc.

I don't know about Ki bc I don't have it (yet) but all the others (except Physicist) are 2LPs. I got mine a few days ago and I've looked at them but haven't had time to listen to any of them yet. They are all beautiful and unless they end up sounding awful (unlikely), I'm very happy with my purchase. I will post full reviews of each later as time allows...

Alright, thanks. Is Physicist a gatefold or just a regular sleeve?

Ki is 2 disc.

Alright, thanks. Is Physicist a gatefold or just a regular sleeve?

Ki is 2 disc.

Gatefold

Contrast this with Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile. That one was definitely recorded at 16bit 44kHz so primitive by today's standards but that triple LP is one of the greatest sounding releases in history. Absolutely awe-inspiring depth and clarity, and such a perfect record to demonstrate those qualities!

i'm afraid exactly the opposite is true. Trent Reznor has been recording at high, high bitrates for decades — see the Ghosts I-IV 24/96 Blu-ray disc release for solid proof, but since i've got a 24/96 rip of The Fragile vinyl that visibly spikes far above the frequency storing capability of 44.1 kHz, you're just way off the mark on this one. (with that said, his How to Destroy Angels project recorded all their wonderful analog synth stuff in 48kHz — pitiful!) however, the masters are still blasted volumewise, so you get squaretop transients even on a format that can't reproduce that.

Alan Moulder:

"Everything went straight into Pro Tools, and it wasn't 24-bit. Twenty-four bit came out when we were in the middle and we thought, "We're committed, we're not going back, forget it!" We did go through an Apogee, the stereo one; some of it was self-limited, and some of it wasn't."

http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_alan_moulder_trident/

^ that comment was referring to the vocals, not the whole thing. even if it was, 24bit recording mainly affects the accuracy of stored dynamics, and has nothing to do with my refuting your comment whatsoever! (i definitely was off the mark when it comes to bitrates vs. sample rates, though; still, the bitrate affects the perceived sound much less than the sample rate, arguable as that is!)

Yes they probably did record at 48k because they mixed down to DAT

But recording the vocals in 16 and the music in 24 is highly unlikely. So I think we're both a bit right and a bit wrong and they seem to have done the album in 16bit/48kHz

I downloaded that vinyl rip you're talking about, they did a really fantastic job on the transfer! Clean as a whistle. Definitely nicer sounding than the digital one but I think the main difference is a lack of the brickwall limiting that the CD suffers from. Every sound has more room to breath (and this is one of the albums that would benefit from that more than most!) I own the LP but it's nice to have this in digi format for the mp3 player

tasty

Good effort!!

Doesn't the new cover to City look bloody awful tho... Century Media, geez

[swervedriver]

Good effort!!

Doesn't the new cover to City look bloody awful tho... Century Media, geez

Why was it changed? Just to show off the "standardized" band name font?

Not sure why they changed it, probably as you suggested - to use the "standardized" logo

They made the schematics brighter too, taking away from the subtlety the original version had