A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders

This sounds great to me. "Precise
Bass-heavy, and just right," in fact. And I've had the album on CD since it first came out.

Really surprising that a 25 mins/side pressing sounds as good as this. Frankly, that's a positive - as splitting this over four sides would have made for a really fragmented listening experience.

Zero quality issues - clean out of the sleeve (which I have replaced with a poly/rice paper bag, and you should too), zero surface noise. Just a shame there's no picture inner sleeve. Buy with confidence.

Listening with Rega P3-24, Rega Elys II, Rega iO, Dali Oberon 5.

No skips for me but it does indeed sound very poor. My copy has been reserved to the shelf for years now as a result.

it came covered in dust and had so much static i had to rip the inner sleeve open and yank the vinyl off from the bottom, but it's mostly silent! I didn't bother cleaning it, but surface noise is kept to a minimum

but for under 18 bucks??? hell yeah!

there's always something I disliked about the sound of the original disc, but this is great! theres so much life to how this sounds.

i am gonna get an exchange to see if i can get a slightly better copy though.

My pressing is absolutely dope as F.

Technics 1200 MK3 Japanese Custom
Ortofon Concorde Club MK2
Rane Empath
Rane TTM 56
Focal Studio Monitors

Bought this years ago and when i got home to play it, I thought I bought a bootleg it sounded so bad. Was really bummed out as it is such a classic album. I need to find a better pressing of this :(

confused on whether this is a us or europe pressing lol says manufactured and printed in usa on the back but has a made in czech republic sticker

i really wish they’d do a double lp of this album like low end. there nothing that shines in this pressing. super quiet music almost drowned out by the surface noise. pops and crackle everywhere even after a deep clean. speaking of clean, it arrived FILTHY, even worse than old thrift store records. this album is amazing and i wish they’d give it the treatment it deserves. was NOT precise, was NOT bass heavy and was NOT just right. i might just exchange for a cd.

Not quite sure where all the hate for this pressing is coming from. Listening to it right now and the mix is great. Super deep, warm, punchy lows. Crisp, bright highs. My copy has no noise whatsoever. Flat/not warped record. No IGD on mine. Put this on after listening to another record and actually had to turn it down a little, so def not a quiet pressing. Solid play all the way through.

I’m getting real tired of people on here nitpicking shit down to a molecular level. I don’t understand the hate for perfectly fine pressings. Don’t even get me started on the blanket “GZ pressings all suck” umbrella statement. Got plenty of GZ pressings that sound better than other manufacturers. It’s like an echo chamber. They hear someone else say it so now they stand hard on statements that have no merit.

Do I have records that have noise, are warped, or just mixed terribly? Absolutely. But this isn’t one of them. Don’t let the people who can’t form their own opinions keep you from grabbing this slab of wax.

pretty damn good. would be better as a double lp. still great to enjoy side by side with your green friend ;)

I recently rediscovered ATCQ and decided I wanted to own this album. In researching the various pressings that were reviewed here on Discogs, I was convinced that a “good” pressing of this album did not exist. I decided to take a chance on ordering a random one from Amazon ($18.67 USD) simply because of their return policy if it sounded as terrible as reviews of other pressings led me to believe.

This is the pressing that arrived and I must say that it sounds EXCELLENT! Crisp and clear highs for that classic old school rap vibe. Great midrange in the vocals. And the bass is solid and punchy. Sounds very good. I highly recommend!