From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:teklabs!tektroni!tekcad!shauns
Newsgroups: net.records
Title: Re: record quality
Article-I.D.: tekcad.294
Posted: Tue Dec  7 16:55:32 1982
Received: Thu Dec  9 08:28:44 1982



Always excellent:  Windham Hill
		   ECM (getting spotty, though. Still, considering it's
			manufactured by Polydor, quality is superior)
		   hnh (specialty classical)

	      OK:  Warner on established groups
		   A&M
		   Kicking Mule (Renaissance/Folk.  Somewhat spotty)
		   Columbia Classical
		   Erato (french classical)

Absolutely awful:  Atlantic (Absolutely beyond hope. play with teakwood
			     stylus only. do not turn amp on.)
		   MCA
		   Electra/Asylum

	Re: Deutsche Gramophon-The record surface is usually great for the
	first play.  After that the grooves collapse.  I don't know-a weak
	vinyl compound or unusually high static charge retention, perhaps.
	Very noisy.  Uggh.
	No London mastering engineer has yet proved he can produce a record
	(particulary digital) with any dynamic range at all, so I could care
	less about their pressing quality, which seems to be pretty good.


				Shaun Simpkins

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