RE: Is new vinyl any good? / need input

Posted by John-from Seattle (A) on November 16, 2021 at 07:02:03

In Reply to: RE: Is new vinyl any good? / need input posted by cactuscowboy@bresnan.net on November 15, 2021 at 18:06:34:

Agree, most new reissues are quite good in terms of surface noises go and general pressing quality itself for the most part.

The warpage, I posit that it can be from walking home from the store on a warm, sunny day and the sun hits the bag, or been in a warm UPS/FedEx truck etc, not necessarily from pressing plants.

As to buying older vinyl, most vinyl pressed prior to the mid 70's and up, most lived a hard life, with many played on lesser players with crystal carts, so may exhibit groove damage of one sort or another.

Back around 2004 or so, bought a stereo pressing of Night Lights from Gerry Mulligan Quintet (1963, Phillips) and while it played fine in the store (the old Be Bop Records warehouse in Ballard) and when I got it home, crackle city, so it exhibited groove damage. Part of that was a very poor alignment of the cart om my table at the time, it took some time fiddling with it to get it to play cleanly, and has since then.

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Topic - Is new vinyl any good? / need input - catbert242000@yahoo.com 12:55:13 11/13/21 (18)

RE: Is new vinyl any good? / need input - Dasyatis 17:38:38 11/19/21 (0)

RE: Is new vinyl any good? / need input - Goober58 21:48:00 11/16/21 (0)

RE: Is new vinyl any good? / need input - Munkie_NL 06:58:28 11/16/21 (1)

+1 As the song says: "Take those old records off the shelf ...." )MT( - J. S. Bach 08:44:30 11/17/21 (0)

RE: Is new vinyl any good? / need input - cactuscowboy@bresnan.net 18:06:34 11/15/21 (1)

RE: Is new vinyl any good? / need input - John-from Seattle 07:02:03 11/16/21 (0)

Accounting for inflation, they cost the same - richardl 14:25:26 11/15/21 (0)

RE: Is new vinyl any good? / need input - Audioquest4life 17:38:38 11/13/21 (0)

It's good but I'd recommend looking for clean used original copies first. - ghost of olddude55 13:23:10 11/13/21 (7)

RE: It's good but I'd recommend looking for clean used original copies first. - Story 13:41:03 11/13/21 (6)

Great idea! I thought those headlamps were only for repairing rooftops at night. - alaskahiatt 19:31:28 11/13/21 (3)

I love the old OJC releases. - ghost of olddude55 05:08:33 11/15/21 (0)

there's nothing like a midnight roof repair - Story 01:58:44 11/14/21 (1)

Thanks. It was a leaky roof at 10:00pm, and I had to do something. - alaskahiatt 13:00:10 11/16/21 (0)

Great idea! - ghost of olddude55 13:57:57 11/13/21 (1)

RE: Great idea! - Story 14:00:05 11/13/21 (0)

yes, but they can be costly - Story 13:06:23 11/13/21 (1)

Same here - jedrider 20:00:24 11/13/21 (0)

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