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In Reply to: RE: Something embedded in my LP! posted by TSWisla on August 14, 2014 at 20:38:45
Remember the Shah of Iran and the Oil Embargo of 1973? Oil shortages created the need for recycled vinyl and after that point the quality of vinyl started to steadily decline. What year was your record manufactured in?
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British and most European Lp quality was ALWAYS better than USA!
I bought many, many US made Lps before, and after 1973, and 98% were good quality.
Returned or thrashed very, very few. But certain labels were crap, and I avoided them.
What I'm saying is that USA vinyl got worse after they got hit by the oil embargo that started in late 1973. European countries were hit selectively, depending on their respective political stances. The Netherlands got hit hard, for example, while France and the UK did not.
Thank you everyone for the replies. I was so upset about this that it consumed most of my thoughts for a good part of the day at work. I decided to simply toss it as I did not want to damage anything. After reading your responses though, I may give it a try...
Strange, European pressings seem to have never suffered from that. A poor excuse for bad US pressings. When vinyl was the only thing I had to return about every third record bought brand new because of warps, off-centre pressings, and noisy surfaces, but one is not allowed to point to these facts in these cultists days.
You just did.
-Wendell
.., and others were much less affected by 1970's oil problems. So, it seems reasonable that European vinyl might have been of better quality than US vinyl during that time.As far as manufacturing problems go, could it be that quality control was in a slump during the 1970's due to the rise of hedonistic values and the laziness and complacency that accompanied it (part of the aftermath of the free-spirited 1960's)? Who knows...
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After 1972 USA quality started going in the crapper. In 1975 I lost a job because I tried to explain to upper management to problems poor quality were causing.
It didn't help that the upper management were all high on coke!
Dave
It says 1982
Most likely that spec is a bit of paper. When melting down old vinyl records for recycling, old labels get chewed up and mixed in there with everything else.
Edits: 08/15/14
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