Addicted. Moogtastic 
no clicks or pops, a flawless pressing. Hopefully yours is
too and the CD will therefore get ltd plays!
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I hope you are correct on all counts, and I will be content with that. I’ll find out tonight when I get back home.
The CD will be used in an old CDP in the garage/workshop/gym. It will also be ripped for use on the Nova in another room, and sometimes will be used in the van.
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yes it’s good to have options. I use a Fiio x5 3rd gen so always like a decent Flac or hi-res copy of all my vinyl.
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Pleased to have this arrive this morning from Rough Trade
The excellent debut from Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul
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Lee Scratch Perry - Disco Devil Vols 1,2,4 & 5 (Studio 16)
Colin Young who is an audio restoration specialist - See Why Audio - specialises in restoring and transferring from rare vintage vinyl.
Has done work for different labels and genres but also happens to be a committed Reggae fan and is building a great archive of Reggae music restored to HiRes digital.
Bought direct from Colin, here are 4 volumes of Lee Scratch Perry Disco Devil Series restored and transferred by him from almost impossible to find, in clean condition and affordable prices, original LSP prime period Black Ark recordings.
Each volume has 5 or 6 priceless original 12" Discomixes, very inexpensive and fantastic value too. Colin says he doesnt do this for money but out of love of the music and to make it affordable
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Thanks to RexManning post and a strenuous ambush to Amazon I managed to find this very interesting SC edition… thanks 
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There’s plenty out there, but it’s still nice to hear of those good souls who do things for love and the pleasure of others.
Thanks Dread for giving Colin a well deserved shout out (even though I don’t know him!)
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I’ve only recently become acquainted via email after a few mentions of his work over on the Hoffman Forum. He comes across genuinely passionate and has a hands on approach to audio restoration preferring according to him to not be over reliant on technology/software.
I was admittedly a little sceptical about these LSP Disco Devil series, given the sources he’s worked with my scepticism proved unfounded he has produced a superb labour of love that sound sweet without throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
vinyl sources will always have noises that you want to remove but be careful - it’s a one-way process. Remove too much of the bad and you risk losing some music along with the junk. It’s important to get your decisions right.
There are two main approaches to digital audio restoration and you must choose the one that best suits your needs.
One way is to use specially written software such as CEDAR. It employs fiendishly clever algorithms written by genius software engineers to remove the unwanted junk from the music signal. It’s one approach and may be suitable for you, however there is another way: the manual human approach and arguably only humans can decide if something should remain. I’ve worked on material ranging from flawless mint Japanese pressings, all the way down to battle-scarred Jamaican 45’s. Each project is different. A machine can never know all this. A skilled manual restorer can save little things such as the switch clicks of a King Tubby dub-mix, or Eric Clapton plugging in a guitar on-stage, for example. You’d want to keep those clicks and these are choices only a human can make. If your material includes many such elements, you probably should choose a manual approach.
http://www.seewhyaudio.com/
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Chet Baker - Cool Cat, (2021) Pre Order
Was released for RSD in the summer now on general release in December planting a well deserved kick in the balls to the eBay flippers.
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So… just arrived from Bureau B (the record label) – the gorgeous Faust vinyl box set. I cannot wait to dive into this!
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Only it’s not the flippers who’ll feel the pain, it’s the poor sods that got screwed …
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Yes but the flippers will be left with stock (hopefully) that will only sell for the rrp.
One of the reasons I generally dont dance to the RSD tune
Most RSD stuff tends to get released one way or another anyway.
If I understood you correctly I agree, it’s the record buying punters (who queued to by the RSD “exclusive”) getting mugged over not by the “flippers” but by the label subsequently putting records on general release
Not sure theres really any such thing as an RRP in record buying land 
You understand correctly sir. I was assuming that the bulk of these titles, appearing on eBay within minutes of purchase, had already been flipped.
I did the RSD queueing thing once, for 5 hours too (6am to 11am), only to have the guy in front of me buy the last copy of the album I wanted.
The next RSD I paid £10 extra for the album I wanted to a flipper. My reasoning was he was the mug for queueing for hours to make such a meagre profit.
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Latest offering from Mr Trunk - 10” reissue of the Basil Kirchin de Wolfe album.
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