Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine

Clean and punchy - 52 minutes on 1 LP has never sounded better.

Presentation: 4/5
Pressing (pops, skips): 4/5
Mastering (audio source): 5/5
Sleeve: Printed Artwork Inner

Setup (turntable, stylus): AT-120XUSB, AT-VM95ML

This is розйоб.
Sounds fantastic! Very groovy, powerful and realistic.
Highly recommend!

I believe that this is the pressing I own but its hard to know. My side A has "13546 7A" etched followed by the barcode but no pressing here on Discogs has "7A". This one has up to 6A so its as close as I could get. I do not have the 2017 for sure since that has completely different etchings.

Anyway this along with the 2015 Europe Back To Black Voodoo are my best sounding records. The sound of this press is breathtaking! The base punches you in the gut and everything is crystal clear and separated. I havent heard the original US but this is defenitily better than the original EU CD. Got it for about 25€ aswell which makes it a must have if you cant spend 100€ on an original. 5/5

Jesus! This sounds SO GOOD! I honestly thought it would sound brickwalled like their reissue of Battle Los Angeles.

The drum kit sounds HUGE. You can feel the kick drum hitting your chest. The bass is extremely well defined and punchy. Vocals is clear and sounds as aggressive as he is live (I have watched them live). The guitar work is jaw dropping. Morello’s sound design is on a different level and all the details are heard here. This is absolutely not the case when you hear this record on Spotify.

Huge soundstage and very high dynamic range. The only thing stopping me from giving this record 5/5 (in of sound) is sometimes the heavy guitar riffs sounds a little bit compressed/tad bit thin. This is if I am being super critical (I am a guitarist).

HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!

I don't have any other pressings to compare, but honestly, really cranked up on my system this sounds absolutely excellent! Very powerful and dynamic, NO complaints whatsoever. And, especially for albums that were made at the time this originally came out, I was not expecting much more than a fairly flat, digital sounding mastering like many from that time. NOPE! Sounds great, as well as it's companion pressing of the 2nd album Battle Los Angeles. I was able to get a 2-fer on Amazon and they both sound bloody amazing!

What I am listening on, and trust me, I'm not saying my system is the GREATEST, but it really does show up differences in pressings and mastering - Case in point, a lot of the recent 1/2 speed Abbey Road pressings on my system have sounded rather flat and 2 dimensional. Not this baby! 😁

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Sound quality of the repress is AMAZING. Mine is the 5A/5B variant but its clean, dynamic, full and it slaps. It is however slightly pringled, slightly off centre and has a few pops on track 2 from a tiny blemish. It still plays 95% perfectly typical of most MOV/Record Industry presses.

An amazing press of an amazing album! It really thumps in this format, and Zack's vocals really cut through. Not a flaw to be heard on my end, other than the slightest, and I repeat, SLIGHTEST surface noise between tracks. If you're on the fence, grab this one!

Sounds amazing. They did a good Job at Sound City Studios back in the days.

Cleaned a few times (wet and dry) and still a fair amount of surface noise between tunes... no problem when the ladz start cranking it to full melt on every single song.... - This pressing kicks like a concrete slab hitting you in the chest. Superb cut of a classic.

Fantastic sounding pressing. All I needed to do was clean it after opening and it was great.