What S The Problem With New Vinyl Pressings

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What s the problem with new vinyl pressings.

Find a wide variety of vinyl records to add to your collection. I ve vented on this subj. Perfect panning and a delicately balanced mix allow the deep grooves and even deeper emotions to come forward in equal measure. Has anyone else had a similar problem.

To celebrate what would have been bob s 70th birthday all of his albums for island records have been faithfully reproduced in fresh new 180g pressings but natty dread has the most compelling 1970s sound quality. New vinyl pressings of the nightfly skipping. Rip v s other machines were split. Before so i ll try not to wax on too much but it s the main reason i don t buy much vinyl anymore.

Pylon announce box set featuring first vinyl pressings of gyrate chomp in 35 years quadruple lp collection also boasts 18 previously unreleased tracks and a book with contributions from r e m. Unless you legitimately scrub the entire machine down between pressings it s impossible to get perfect every time. When in doubt play the record on a friend s turntable or record shop to rule out the vinyl itself. I agree many new pressings are a disappointment either in pressing quality or sound.

Remember the two main culprits the setup and the record and that more often than not it is a turntable or environmental issue when it is a brand new record. New vinyl inflation adjusted isn t that bad. The only pressings that i can say good things about are mfsl. In the early 90s i was paying 15 20 for a cd.

We hope this article has provided guidance on why your new vinyl record is skipping. By ben rayner. The machines that press vinyl records are decades old and no one s building new ones so keeping up with increased demand. Its remaining presses to a plant being built in new jersey.

I picked up a newly pressed packaged record of the nightfly the other day and it sounds and plays great. But if there s one problem with the vinyl resurgence it might be this. The only problem i encountered was a lot of skipping at the same places throughout the record s title track. Inflation for that 30 year period is a touch over 100.