My Morning Jacket – Z

Phenomenal pressing — quiet, huge soundstage, and amazing instrument separation. In 2005, I was busy with newborns and toddlers. 🍼 I this album being a sort of gateway to escape the noise of life. At the time, I did not have a quality system — my only system was a standard issue car stereo, played while speeding down interstates. I am NOW experiencing this album for all it was meant to be and am incredibly thankful.

Notes : « Limites to 2500. »
Discogs infos : « Have : 3766. »

That’s a big 2500…!

My copy sounds great. I got it new back when it came out. As others have stated, it has excellent lows/full bass. It reaches the depths, is present and dynamic.

I didn’t wet clean my copy, just used an antistatic brush. I only heard two pops. The beauty is they were both together and perfectly in sync with the beat.

I like that two people did the album art. The inner gatefold imagery is a nice juxtaposition in style to the front and back.

My copy of this slaps. I should throw it on and compare it to the purple pressing. I’ve been doing a mmj immersion this week. Maybe I’ll leave some more reviews.

I'm surprised to see that folks are complaining about the sound. My copy is quiet, flat and the mix sounds great to me. Dynamic and clear. I got this mid 2022 so maybe there's a newer press with these issues? It seems like older reviews all praise this pressing.

Sound quality is all over the place. Side A - excellent. Side B track 1 is compressed to hell, and the mix is absolute shite. The rest of Side B is extremely ordinary. The record needs a full remix and remaster - my guess is the album was not well produced / mixed in the first place. Pressing is generally quiet and clean. Inner paper sleeves are junk, and scratch the vinyl.

It is okay. Kick drum sounds great, but it overhelms the mix (Revel M106 speakers; no sub). The entire mix sounds like it exists in the lower range. The vocals come through good enough, but other instruments sound too on top of each other. No warping or ticks/pops on my copy. Press quality is fine, but the mix is lacking.

Warped with a defect on the second disc causing surface noise throughout Dondante

Good press and release, nice improvement over the original. Doesn't really blow me away as it seems to have others, but a nice release of a great album for a very reasonable price

Flawless look, flawless sound.
There are no tics, pops or surface noise to be heard anywhere. No warps on either of my records, either. My apologies to those who have that problem, but both my records are perfect and sound the same. If you see this reissue, get it.