Jack White (2) – No Name

As others have said, pleasantly surprised with how quiet this LP right out of the sleeve. Thew it on without a wet clean, and it is easily the best TMR pressing I own. Dead quiet, and it sounds great. Dynamic, punchy, and a fun listen. Like the other Jack solo albums I own, it is cut a bit on the quiet side, and you do have to turn it up, but I have absolutely no complaints. I know TMR quality control can be dicey, and I originally was trying to track down one of the blue variants, but given how dead quiet this black vinyl is, I'm glad I went with this one.

Gotta say I was pleasantly surprised by this one after reading a lot of the comments. I have absolutely no love for TMRs vinyl pressing abilities but I must have lucked out, flat and dead quiet. I know some people have commented on this having poor sound quality in of the mix or the mastering but honestly this is clearly what Jack wanted it to sound like, it's mastered by Bernie G for vinyl and it's punchy and grimy but it's not soft or muffled. It's the usual Jack White routine where tracks range from fuzzy almost mono sounding garage rock to big wide staged studio recordings. Some tracks you can draw a line right down the center of your room and the music doesn't extend more than a few feet on either side, others the stage is quite big and you've got good extension on the guitars and a lot of punch on the low end. As always your mileage may vary depending on your system and cleaning regimen but if you can manage to avoid the TMR pressing pitfalls, then I think this is a really fun one on vinyl. Sounds better than the high res stream on my rig. Just for reference it was cleaned with a Degritter and played on a VPI Classic Signature and a Soundsmith Paua MKII cart.

Lordy does this record rock hard. Probably a bit limited at the frequency extremes to shoehorn so much into two sides of wax. You all have 3 knobs at your disposal: volume, bass, and treble. Guess what? It's all there. Don't be afraid to "decode" this LP if needed.

If that sounds like an apology or an excuse, it is not.

Great mastering and pressing of what would have to be inherently a very compressed recording. Buy the $11 24/192 -- you read that right -- from Bandcamp if you need to compare!

A bit quiet compared to most of the records I own, but god damn it rocks. One of the Jack White's best albums.

I can't believe that the fact that this was cut by Bernie Grundman wasn't used to market the record. That said, I'm both glad and not surprised that Jack White went right to the top shelf when it came to the mastering of this LP.

Great stuff. Fantastic album and sounds fine to me. I did however find this to be the dirtiest album I have ever pulled out of the shrink. Covered in dust and grubby finger marks.

Great album and good pressing to boot
Compressed... Hell yeah but it's how Jack wanted it

An Ear orgasme awesomeness play me loud can’t sit still record😁🤘

The comments here complaining about the audio fidelity are kind of hilarious. We’re talking about Jack White here…of course it’s going to sound like this, deliberately. if you go into this expecting Steely Dan sonics you’re setting yourself up for bitter disappointment.

Musically, this rocks harder than anything JW’s done in years. Thoroughly enjoyable, *especially* at top volume.

Pretty decent, echoing comments from other people that the sound is very quiet compared to a lot of the other records I own..