SYRO $400 "Limited Edition" 3xLP

I will admit that I'm using the term lossless incorrectly and gratuitously to refer to total loss of sound quality (not just referring to compression)

Anyways I'm done mr Auxien I won't derail the thread anymore!

Hey, at least he's not doing a Kickstarter!

Can you imagine the type of person who'd drop $2500-5000 for "an exclusive dinner with Aphex Twin" ? I think Richard can and therefore that option isn't on the table.

One thing I think we can all agree on is that cats are the best thing in the world ever of all time in the universe ever. So..

ima stealing this as a quote for the cute pictures thread. holy mother of lel, is that kitten adorable.

  On 8/23/2014 at 1:47 AM, baph said:

What's the standard Warp non-audiophile pressing come in at, 120 grams? L-event was advertised as 140g but I don't remember if that was a special case or not.

 

Would have preferred a bit heavier this time around of course, mostly because my turntable isn't super high end and tracks kind of heavy and it makes me paranoid. Exai @ 180g is the best sounding record I have, but I don't have a huge collection so can't say if it's because of the vinyl or because of rob and sean being much better than everyone else at everything. Probably the latter.

I have quite a few 180g pressings now, some better than others. Exai is definitely up there with Drukqs limited edition as being some of the best vinyl I have. I've already mentioned to Sean that it almost sounds like it was pressed on virgin vinyl, because there's so little surface noise on Exai. In my admittedly amateur opinion, I would say it is virgin vinyl. If not, it's damn good stock and hasn't been done on heavily recycled vinyl. I have a copy of Pretty Hate Machine on what is supposed to be virgin vinyl, but it sounds like absolute shit, and it's due to surface noise.

  On 8/23/2014 at 2:35 AM, xox said:

@oscillik - that's a nice picture my friend but we can't hear sounds beyond 20 kHz even as a 10 yr olds and in our age not even beyond 18 k so no use from the extended bandwidth in any theory and even if we can hear it vinyl couldn't reproduce it as correctly as digital in, let's say 96 kHz of sampling rate. it's mostly noise.

I posted the picture because I could've sworn that someone had posted here saying something along the lines of CDs having a higher frequency response, which my picture proves is not true. regardless of the fact that we can't hear those higher frequencies, I was just trying to debunk that statement.

now it seems I imagined that statement, because I can't find it.

nevermind. WATMM fartists in full effect.

but honestly, I had no fucking idea vinyl could elicit frequencies so high until I checked out the spectrals. It's quite impressive, in my opinion.

http://youtu.be/UN5M2pHeDyU

I wonder if my V/Vm Aphex Twin 3" cds will be worth as much as Drukqs one day?

  On 8/22/2014 at 7:29 PM, mokz said:

So, when WATMMer gets a mid-life crisis he/she will shell out money on limited vinyls instead of buying a motorbike and a leather jacket like regular peoples?

But what if the aphex twins gets a motorbike and a leather jackets.....

  On 8/24/2014 at 12:29 AM, LUDD said:

 

  On 8/22/2014 at 7:29 PM, mokz said:

So, when WATMMer gets a mid-life crisis he/she will shell out money on limited vinyls instead of buying a motorbike and a leather jacket like regular peoples?

But what if the aphex twins gets a motorbike and a leather jackets.....

 

 

Urghh!! that is a frightening thought.

He must not do activities that are dangerous. We must keep him pristine and in the braindance workhouse, slaving for our precious prichard jams. Spose we could hook the motorbike up to a VR helmet and let him wear the leathers, we're not that cruel. Can't turn the bike on though, carbon monoxide might dampen the synapses.

money isnt everything. how you feel when you get a lot of it is what counts.

Gimme :)

From Pitchfork interview

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The limited-edition version of SYRO will include an extra track printed in ink on heavyweight cardstock: “I tried it a few times, and it sounds like noise, but you can hear music in there, somehow.

 

I'm not certain what that means really.

it means we'll crave it till the day we die

i would love to hang this on my wall

  On 8/25/2014 at 8:22 PM, PlatrixECV said:

From Pitchfork interview

 

  Quote

 

The limited-edition version of SYRO will include an extra track printed in ink on heavyweight cardstock: “I tried it a few times, and it sounds like noise, but you can hear music in there, somehow.

 

 

I'm not certain what that means really.

Well, theoretically if they are taking a masterplate and inking it to press onto the paper for the limited edition art print the plate could be depressed enough into the paper that grooves would be present for playback. That being said, given the lack of rigidity you'd be basically ripping apart a $370 piece of art in order to play back incredibly low quality audio.

I'm guessing he's having a laugh and they are probably using plates of one of the sides from the proper album. If he isn't, someone would do a high quality scan and write some code to try and extract the audio and it would likely do a better job than a needle ripping apart paper.

It may be a scanning process to extract audio. Or photo app.

  On 8/25/2014 at 8:47 PM, datastream said:

 

  On 8/25/2014 at 8:22 PM, PlatrixECV said:

From Pitchfork interview

 

  Quote

 

The limited-edition version of SYRO will include an extra track printed in ink on heavyweight cardstock: “I tried it a few times, and it sounds like noise, but you can hear music in there, somehow.

 

 

I'm not certain what that means really.

 

Well, theoretically if they are taking a masterplate and inking it to press onto the paper for the limited edition art print the plate could be depressed enough into the paper that grooves would be present for playback. That being said, given the lack of rigidity you'd be basically ripping apart a $370 piece of art in order to play back incredibly low quality audio.

 

I'm guessing he's having a laugh and they are probably using plates of one of the sides from the proper album. If he isn't, someone would do a high quality scan and write some code to try and extract the audio and it would likely do a better job than a needle ripping apart paper.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records#Etched_discs

  On 8/25/2014 at 9:12 PM, Joyrex said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records#Etched_discs

 

 

Sure, or flexi-discs like what they used to include in magazines or with happy meals. The Warp SE page seems to indicate that its simply a print though (and that the print is sealed in a way to protect it), unless there is another item inside.

It feels like to me this is a joke. UNless there's more to it than what's listed online.

Saw this a few months ago; might be interesting (somewhat related):

  On 8/25/2014 at 9:42 PM, apriorion said:

Saw this a few months ago; might be interesting (somewhat related):

 

jazzz

I hope the quality of that bonus record is at least to that standard, in case it wasn't a joke.

Wouldn't he get legal issues if he lied about something coming with the record?

shocking that a wood glue record made off a stamper sounds that good, i'm pretty amazed. 3d printed records so far sound waaaay shittier

James is obsessed with vinyl quality. Why would he allow a printed version of his music that sounds like 'noise', to use his own words?

A joke, albeit a funny one. If it isn't, I will be selling my ltd copy of the album (if I win it) pretty quickly lol.

I think they're pretty, even though I probably have more chance of winning the lottery than getting a chance to purchase one of them.

  On 8/25/2014 at 11:43 PM, Cheladrix said:

 

I think they're pretty, even though I probably have more chance of winning the lottery than getting a chance to purchase one of them.

 

I just realised that was a picture of the printed disc... it was there all along!