steve hoffman forums, C or D?

here's that slam forum: https://stereocentral.freeforums.net. Like I said, some of it is good reading, particularly the stuff they snag before it's deleted where some SHF posters go off into really awful right-wing political shit.

anybody wanna explain what the hell is going with that forum?

i'm out of the loop and seriously confused by all of this.

discovering that forum makes me wonder where the anti-ilx forum is

it's called ilx

ha.

Austin, i wish i could help but i don't think i know anything you don't know. birdistheword's post sort of sums it up pretty well i think.

yup. I visit about once a month and the threads on bands I'm really interested in have been pretty helpful.

Good god, the current thread over there about RZA's new ice cream truck jingle is.... something.

lol I racked my brain trying to think why RZA would write an ice cream jingle and how it would become a clusterfuck on the steve hoffman forums and I'm sad to say I pretty much guessed right

discovering that forum makes me wonder where the anti-ilx forum is

hipinion?

xli?

so wait, it's literally a parody thread full of fake posts in the SHF style? That seems like a...very odd use of time

Its not really full of parodies, more filled with threads mocking Hoffman and specific posters.

There can't be many places that banned so many users they decided to start their own forum just to make fun of the one where they originally posted.

That actually happens a lot, 2 that I could think of in recent years.

Looks like the Hoffman Forums got taken out by hackers, at least that's what is implied by some posts on that slam forum.

Looks like it's been DOS attacked

Xpost blimey!

dammit they are my source for Jethro Tull news

According to that other forum, someone may have hacked H0ffman's own account and posted a few things under his name.

Now we will never know which pressing of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs best foregrounds God’s coked-up despair.

lol

I got a message on there thsi morning saying they'd been hacked, claimed to come from Steve Hoffman himself. NOt sure how true that is, also seemed to be an individual message to me so is that a BCC type thing.

Got told i might need a 2fa which i know nothing about

Tried to chjeckj back on there about 20 minutes ago and I can't get near the site apparently.

According to that slam forum, every user got that message from Steve himself.

what are the odds that SH posted something horrible and then decided to blow up the board

Fuck I wanted to figure out what the hot-stamper for Breakfast in America was!

sounds like the whole joint got hot-stamped

You think the hackers used MyDoom or Slowloris in the attack, or do you think they went the classic route with Stacheldraht?

Those first two will definitely keep your victims guessing for a few hours but the pitch on Stacheldraht leaves you with no doubt that you've been fucked.

Six of one, half a dozen perhaps....

According to the big guy's twitter, it was one of the mods that got their account hacked.

As much as there was a lot to make fun of there, and what an alternately lame and borderline toxic place it was in general, I did use the search function a ton to try to suss out eg whether it was advisable to pick up certain represses & such. If it’s permanently gone, I’ll miss it.

yeah it was actually a pretty good resource sometimes

Yeah, as easy and fun as it was to dunk on that place and some of the people that populate it, it was often a good place to get some good information. For better or worse, there were a lot of connected people that shared some good info about releases. Andy Z@x, for example, would stop by to give updates on that Woodstock box.

Absolutely. It amazes how many people, mostly engineers, have left that forum, either because of Hoffman or because of the socially-dysfunctional assholes who would lash out at them. Mastering engineers who have worked on countless releases, but also people like Ken Scott (The Beatles, David Bowie, Devo) and the late Orrin Keepnews (every jazz listener should know him). And yet, look at how many reissue producers still participate on that forum. The producers behind the new Richard & Linda Thompson, Tom Petty and Replacements box sets (all different producers) were actively participating in threads, answering questions and taking feedback.

*amazes me

looks like it's working now?

I.. uh.. no, no idea.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/is-rock-music-dead.937372/page-22#post-25206133

(comment is gone btw, I actually reported it with a not very nice comment to their board admins about how they delete the most benign crap but leave up some sexist weird bullshit like this; it was gone within ten seconds)

i'm trying to figure out if the recent Brian Eno vinyl remasters are worth it and 40 pages later I still have no goddamn idea

Without having heard them, I'd say probably not (especially ambient albums with four tracks at 45 RPM on 2 records with a decent chance of pressing defects that were very well DSD mastered for CD in 2004/5)

Say what you will about the Hoffman Forums, but The Grateful Thread is the best place on the internet to discuss the Dead if you're into that kind of thing. Just a bunch of chill, good-natured Deadheads of all ages nerding out about their favorite shows and jams. 5,385 pages and counting lol

ha funny enough I’m listening to the new vinyl remaster of discreet music and it’s sounding good to me! Not that there’s an insane amount of detail there lol

it’s cool cuz you can play it at 45 and double the album length.. I have reflection on 45 double vinyl too it’s all good

Oh yeah, I settled on avoiding the 2x45 releases. I’m not thrilled about the idea of getting up every ten minutes to flip a record in the middle of an original LP side. Going to check for pressing errors but it seems like the single 33 versions are ok, and I only ever picked up the first four albums on CD.

it can be hard trying to get a consensus on the SH forums. also, the fussiness over pressings, like on discogs, makes it bloody hard to gauge sometimes.

I have 3 of the 4 vocal albums. Tiger Mountain sounds great, Before & After Science is crisp but I think its mastered a little hot. though its better than my original copy.

Tiger Mountain is the one that caused the most fuss over there, with some v angry debate over whether minor audio dropouts on the 2x45 were from individual bad pressings or tape degradation on the original master

because if there's one thing to be fired up about, it's that am i right.

oh wait. I have the Astralwerks single LP versions. I forgot they made 2x45 versions

I like it when guys on sh forums post pics of the 9 diff pressings they have of the same album.

sometimes i want to register just to reply "weird flex, but okay" on those kinds of posts.

Even better is when those dudes (they are always dudes) tell someone else they can't possibly comment on an album because they haven't heard every possible pressing.