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From: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tim Takahashi)
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Subject: Re: LP Quality
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Date: 7 Feb 91 13:52:19 GMT
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In article <9370@uwm.edu> kucharsk@Solbourne.COM (William Kucharski) writes:
>I was in the record store the other day, pondering the purchase of a LP
>($9.99?!), when I asked myself a question:
>
>Now that the record companies are only pressing a few thousand LPs of any
>particular title (if they're available at all), has the quality of those LPs
>increased at all?

I have found that recently pressed LP's are of fine quality. In my quest for
vinyl, I have purchased many new (as well as used) LP's since 1987, while
some of these are NOS, many are late 1980's or even early 1990's pressings
I have found the pressing quality to be excellent. At the same time I have
found some sealed mid 1970's pressings, when played they bring back all of
the nasty LP memories (dynaflex, dynagroove, noisy surfaces, etc.).

Tim Takahashi
ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
.