The Dead Weather – Live At The Mayan, Los Angeles

I think a lot of the "surface noise" people are hearing is actually just unwanted snare vibration on White's drum

My copy came with 2 A/B sides, no C/D. The second A/B has some dark markings on the vinyl as well.

If you're only going to listen to one side of this, Side D all day.

Received mine during the week and can happily report my copy is perfect. No QC issues and nice SQ. I haven't listened to a lot of The Dead Weather's music before, but will now explore their back catalogue off the back of this great set.

Received my Vault Package #32 yesterday. HOLY QUALITY CONTROL BATMAN!
My A/B record has SO MUCH edge trim left on it and the same surface noise others are reporting.
The C/D record is dished pretty bad and will only lay flat on the platter when I us a clamp.
Emailed TMR today so we'll see...

I'll update as I listed, but so far I haven't had a good start. The A side is stuck on a loop before the stylus gets a chance to start moving into the grooves - and no matter how precisely I try to place it into the starting grooves, the stylus skips across and a few seconds into the opening track. Surface noise is also pretty horrible for the first song - but it gets better.

Side B was pretty good throughout.

Side C, and this is a REAL shame, has some consistent pops for the first couple of minutes. It's a quaint quiet track, so this is particularly annoying.

Side D is perfect.

I have ed Third Man, we'll see what happens.

Update: Third Man got back to me in ONE HOUR and they're sending a new A/B LP my way tomorrow! Great, great service. Hopefully with future presses of The Vault coming from Third Man's plant, we'll never again have to worry about these problems :)

Update 2: Replacement A/B arrived! While side A doesn't loop in the entry groove anymore, it does seemingly just start playing seconds into the first track. Does the intro track not fade in? Or have I ended up with another shoddy copy? oh well...

I received mine yesterday. Oh my god. The B side label was printed horribly bad. It looked like United pressed the heck out of that label, the A side had so much surface noise that it was hard to listen to. I didn't use a Crosley turntable. I used an Audio Technica AT-LP120. The Third side was out of center with the grooves. I didn't want to ruin my record cartridge at all. The D side was fine. Disc 1 had a cropping error. There was a small chip on the edge of the record. I'm sending my defected copy back to TMR to get it replaced.