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good idea. but as rock records.

These are set sale prices from reputable high end dealers by the way. You can go to their sites and buy them right now if you want.

John Manship has this for sale for $14. Craig moerer has this for sale for $15. Both are mint promo copies. This isn't a soul record (maybe it's "northern soul" but I would say no). Please don't end up being one of those people that lists every record in every random genre as "northern soul". Those are the worst ebay sellers. Thank you.

your point was about digital recording though. Sebastian's point was about how pressing records is a lost art.

are you collecting sweet soul now? because i got tons of stuff to offer

I have the quinns record, I think it was straight garage. if you really care i can try to record it, but it definitely wasn't soul.

I already posted this, but: https://waxidermy.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=37937

easy, this is "the count". previous threads cover both him and les harris

actually your status on ebay pretty much depends on the DSRs (detailed seller ratings), and the seller is right that anything less than 5 hurts you (you can get kicked off pretty easily or your listings will appear much lower in search results). That said, that dude deserves to be kicked off and "lase his houe" if he doesn't get a real job.

true.the only thing differentiating them are the special sleeves, the deadwax, and in some cases, the publishing. and people can remove the special sleeves.

les harris richard, just hit the "report" button on his message and ignore it, don't engage him the stars are fake "anonymous" because if you monitor your stats you can see the numbers go up and down. I never leave DSRs except in extreme cases now since it's pointless since they're not anonymous and you can only leave all 5s without pissing off a seller.

lol@ the neo nazi newspaper, would love to see the paper if you kept it I would think a 45 in a washing machine sized box with packing peanuts (those foam things) would be ultra-safe. I got two cracked 45s yesterday. One was a crushed in part that was clearly cracked during shipping. The other was a very visible edge crack that had been GLUED TOGETHER which I don't think happened during shipping.

that is pretty funny. I know by "best" you mean funniest probably, but that isn't that great packaging as the box is easily crushable and those plastic bags aren't doing much. good 45 packaging always involves a completely rigid sandwich (unless it's double boxing which involves taking a perfectly packed 45 and putting it in another box of peanuts).

Moderator Edit: the purpose of discussion threads is not so you can bump the thread with a link to your own ebay auction (in this case without even a fake attempt to contribute to the discussion, just a link to an auction from an ebay user whose name matches yours). If you want to post a link to an ebay auction, do it in the Ebay and Website sales links. Please don't do this again. Thank you.

Just to be specific about the ways that a digital format might compromise the original audio, there are two separate phenomenons. One is quantization (which is how many bits the recording is at -- e.g. 16, 24, 36, etc.) and determines how many possible numbers are used at any time to represent the amplitude of the waveform. The other is sampling, or discretization, which represents how many snapshots of the waveform occur in the time domain. This is the sampling rate -- e.g. 22khz, 44.1khz, etc. Discretization results in the limiting of frequencies that can be represented in the digital file. Specifically, the highest frequency that can be represented is half of the sampling rate. So at 44.1khz (which is the sample rate for all CDs), the highest frequency that will be present in the recording will be 22050hz. Higher frequencies have to be filtered out of the recording before being sampled because otherwise a phenomenon called aliasing will cause higher frequencies to instead become much lower frequencies. This is similar to when you're watching a car ad on TV and the wheels appear to be moving slowly backwards instead of quickly forward, due to the TV's refresh rate. Note that the upper range of human hearing is about 20khz, although it is said that even higher frequencies that you can't hear make some sort of perceptual difference in the vinyl playback. Quantization error results in an annoying type of noise that depends on the amplitude (loudness) of the sound wave -- it is a weird sounding distortion that doesn't occur when silence is in the digital file (it's totally quiet at that point) but is loud and annoying when at a higher loudness. Unless you manipulate something to a very low bit rate, you generally won't hear this. However, the effect of this noise might be a cause of the "worn out" feeling some people report when listening to CDs for a long time. A common practice is actually to add white noise to a recording which will increase the noise floor so that the quantization noise falls under that level and is masked. This is called "dithering". Modern digital recording is frequently done at 96khz and 32 bits. This means the highest frequency that can be represented is 48khz, well above the human hearing range (dogs can hear higher frequences though). 32 bits is a very detailed representation of the amplitude of the waveform. So I don't think the technology, if used correctly, inherently makes new vinyl sound worse. There are other issues affecting new vinyl reissues -- e.g. the source of the master (e.g. tape or vinyl), the condition and degradation of the source, the original recording quality, processing of the audio, etc. I just wanted to make explicit the specific effects of digital recording and make the point that if used correctly it should not be responsible for any loss of quality given the current high bit and frequency rates available.

The group says that they have another 45 from 1976 which I don't know anyone who has seen.

The producers of the show were selling DVDs of the show a few years ago. There are a bunch of things from that show on the internet -- for example, the CODs "michael the lover" clip is from swinging time, if you want to see what the set looked like. I think not on youtube but I have a DVD with Marvin Smith on the show singing "Time Stopped" and a performance of Jerry-O by himself for some reason doing a Tom and Jerry-O cut.

re: info, Jerry Towns is the same person as Jerry Brown, who recorded with Richard Parker as the Dutones on Columbia in the early 60s. He sings lead on the Perfections on Twinight.

1978 offered me $200 for a clean copy. Thanks for the generous offer! I'm sure other copies will come out now and you'll get one ASAP.

can you still find the actual listing for the record if you look it up by ID?

it is the same guy. someone might have said it's not because of the ohio / florida disconnect but it is.

yeah, I had heard that. I don't know if people just say that because it sounds like her or if they have more concrete evidence. I think it's weird that she didn't write any of the songs though, she was already a songwriter with ashford and simpson around that same time. The Deena Johnson recordings are all new york / new jersey. Where were ashford and simpson based at that time?

I don't need to hear your excuses about the diamond dogs sleeve. You were never a true bowie fan.

Hi, thanks for posting. Moving this to look at your box which is record-focused. I agree their pic is creepy.

Brad Lundy is a jamaican thing right? I know it was pressed in the US. He credits himself but I think deena's is first. I think deena's is way better personally.