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RE: warped pressings

Posted by flood2 (A) on December 25, 2022 at 00:24:12

In Reply to: warped pressings posted by michael22 on December 24, 2022 at 21:12:06:

I think you may have slightly missed my point - even IF the record is pressed flat, warps can occur due to packaging (tight shrink wrapping) and during distribution and storage. I'm in the Southern hemisphere so whether I import in Summer or Winter I still have a problem either at source or within my country due to the temperature conditions in transit. I should imagine you would have the same issues in your Summer within the US.

With the current high demand for vinyl, 180g pressings are less likely to be flat now than at any previous point in time - almost without exception, I'm having to flatten new reissues (180g or less), Tone Poets, One Steps, UHQRs...the lot. The tight shrink wrap and single LP gatefolds seem to not help things, but the warped One Step I got tells me cycle times are being pushed down to the absolute limit to meet production targets.

I wasn't aware that Japan was still producing and exporting new reissues so I'm not sure how Japanese quality would help your VMP complaint. All the reissues I'm seeing on the market are pressed either in Europe or North America. Sony were planning on setting up pressing plants in Japan, but my understanding was that this was to satisfy the local market rather than for export.

Do yourself a favour and ask Santa for a VinylFlat this Christmas!
Have a Merry Christmas and enjoy your music :)

Regards Anthony

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