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Yeah, the SR60s are kind of universally considered great entry level audiophile headphones. The Sennheiser PX100s are also cheap and good, and even more portable. Neither of them isolate, though. But closed headphones are usually pretty terrible until you get to the mid-to-high end Denons, although I've heard the Shure SRH440s are decent. Obviously there's a lot of snake oil shat about at places like head-fi.org, but getting a nice clean source with decent amplification and decent headphones is really all you need. The payoff for stuff like Autechre is pretty huge, if you want Bine to sound like an alien winged multipenis tearing into your parietal lobe, which you TOTALLY DO.

Audiophile Party Foul

Ah, fuck, I sound like a twat.

I totally agree. I don't have a crazy audiophile set up by most standards, but I've got a really nice Apogee DAC with a great headamp stage and some pretty nice Sennheiser and Grado headphones and semi-decent studio monitors, and the Oversteps leak sounds incredibly. . . squashed and flat through all of them. Even stuff like sound staging, which is usually very impressive in Autechre's work (even Quaristice) sounds really dull. The sound design is pretty much ruined, and until I hear the physical/WAV copy sound this bad, I can't really believe that Autechre of all people would go this route with their sound. Basically, it just seems like whatever captured the original audio feed wasn't really a very professional piece of equipment. It's not completely horrible, but it's really doing a disservice to some of the best aspects of Autechre-- and you can sort of tell those aspects are there, just not represented properly. Edit: that's not to say that other people can't dig what they've got now; it's just not working for me.

Motherfucker supported. The sound quality is pretty pisspoor, Mr. Hauntingsoul. Obviously it'll sound even worse if you transcode it down to 128. The crossfades, if nothing else (oh yeah, the fucking file corruption) make this way too unsatisfying for me to approach and appreciate.

Oh, thank fuck.

I can't get past the crap quality of the m4a and the terrible crossfades, not to mention the error towards the end of the album that I can't bypass on my portable device. This is an album I can't really dive into without having the full presentation available. Thus, WHAT THE FUCK, WARP/BLEEP?

That's asking for trouble:

Because of all the goatse?

Actually, I'm pretty sure Lithgow is Mira Calix; she hacked into Sean's secret watmm account.

Who are you, again? Hows about I have my own opinion and not fall in line with all you sheep fawning over Joe Electronica's "My First Whack At Reason"? Obvious Sean Booth is obvious.

What could possibly go wrong? Also: please post updates on location so that I can make sure the people I don't hate are off the roads in that area.

I don't want to sound like a prick, and I don't know how things are in the great land of "Not Selected," but not everyone has the same opportunities to go out and just discover new music like that. Not in the bumfuck suburbs. I'm sure the local Best Buy would let you preview some Autechre, before you buy, if they had any in stock. And Club 69 down on mainstreet would probably play some of pretty exciting new music too, if it was produced by Timbaland.

It's Kari Byron and she's perfect. My DL must have been incomplete; it cuts off around what should be Krylon. I think I'm just going to hold off until the WAV comes, for realz this time. Some of this is immediately awesome (ilanders) and some of it is getting a little same-y, but that's a first impression based on half-listening to an incomplete DL while trying to do some work. And also I'm exhausted. So who the fuck knows.

Yeah, I've already got 95 megs downloaded. Haha. Edit: I'm going to try to just preview it, and then wait for the WAV to come earlyish (I hope) from bleep.

:facepalm: :facepalm:

Holy fuck, ilanders is great. ::trying not to DL leak::

This is gorgeous. Bands as Sex Partners. […] - Autechre: a $500 vibrator that somehow got stuck on the weird setting you never use so now it just sits in your backdoor. […] (@ tumblr) FTFY

Oversteps won't be available until the Comet Rale-Dropp is at its brightest. But you can castrate yourself a few weeks before; that's ok.

This sounds awesome. I'll get some new black and white nikes and then not wear them until the rest of the Away Team is ready.

Oh hai, I'm Thom Yorke, and I'm cruising Obel.

If I was king you would be first against my balls.

How can I get it out if I keep it zipped?

Autechre sez: I promise not to come in your mouth-- GAAHHHERRRRRUGH.

wtf, tracks autorship? AH YAH, I HADN'T TOUGHT OF DAAH There's a Spaced reference I haven't heard for a while I don't really see Saint Epreo throwing shapes in the church of dance, do you?