Aphex Twin [WARPbot] Aphex Twin: New Warp vinyl represses

vinyl arrived yesterday

Damn, still don't have the repress vinyl I ordered at my local record store. They have it still for preorder with release date on January 25.

I have to stick to my original pressings then

How is the quality of the repress? Especially of the RDJ albums?

arrived today and i live in us

im in the US and got it a day ago...need to set the record player up....what a pleasant Xmas surprise!

Got mine today!

arrrrrrrrrived

I can't imagine how yummy rdj album (& esp. icbyd once that arrives for everyone) sounds on vinyl.. Anyone care to share the sound quality?

Sounds completely OK to me, with not top quality but decent audio system it's a pleasure to hear

when i break it out ill be sure to put up a review.....

i remember being really disappointed with a Mint copy of the R&S reissue of SAW 85-92, and the first thing I heard was scratching on the vinyl...must've messed up during shipment....what a downer.

Sleave on new copy of RDJ has a different UPC and a more reddish tone to the skin both on the front and on the back used in the collage/labels.

Original pressing is much louder and has more pronounced mids. At times it almost sounds like the master is on the verge of being overdriven compared to digital formats, but this really makes it thud and sometimes just go totally off the wall - in a good way(the filtered rolls before the beat drops out on 4 or the bass on cornish acid).

New pressing is quieter and cleaner sounding. The sound is a little less dynamic but the mix sounds more balanced.

The new pressing is pretty nice and for complex tracks accentuates certain aspects of the sounds in ways the original doesn't but the original is imo a more fun listen and sounds more "live".

I don't have an original of ICBYD. It is also a bit quiet of a pressing but sounds really great and lush. super deep tight bass.

Also, the cover on both Warp reissues has a slight touch of the blurriness you see all the time on represses these days, when inferior artwork sources have been used instead of the originals. Not the worst I´ve seen, though.

  On 1/9/2013 at 9:36 AM, psn said:

Also, the cover on both Warp reissues has a slight touch of the blurriness you see all the time on represses these days, when inferior artwork sources have been used instead of the originals. Not the worst I´ve seen, though.

I was going to mention this, too. The records sound fine, but the artwork for RDJ (at least my copy) is pixellated. You can clearly see this in the reflection on his eyes. I was somewhat disappointed by this: was the original pressing pixellated? It seems that they stretched out a JPEG that was too small for the cover art of an album. The contrast stands out even more clearly against the "Warp" logo in the corner, which has no pixellation.

My copy of ICBYD is just blurry, not pixellated. Again, I was disappointed because I found scans of the cover art that seem to have higher resolution than the ones they used for my repressings.

  On 1/9/2013 at 2:36 AM, datastream said:

Original pressing is much louder and has more pronounced mids. At times it almost sounds like the master is on the verge of being overdriven compared to digital formats, but this really makes it thud and sometimes just go totally off the wall - in a good way(the filtered rolls before the beat drops out on 4 or the bass on cornish acid).

 

New pressing is quieter and cleaner sounding. The sound is a little less dynamic but the mix sounds more balanced.

so, exactly what you'd expect from a record pressed with a CD master?