Just as a followup to my first experience with feedbands.
As reported I had a high level of surface noise on the disk that I received. I sent a question out to customer service - trying to see if this was pretty standard for them. I got a quick reply back, talking about the recording quality, but offered a replacement disk. I was okay with the recording quality - from the digital download.
I got the replacement disk (no charge) in yesterday, and spun it last night. It was Much better - not silent, but surface noise was low enough not to really bother me at all.. So happy to report - good customer service - and not systemic issue with the disks.
Looking forward to the next release.
Cheers,
Mikey