What S The Problem With New Vinyl Pressings

In the early 90s i was paying 15 20 for a cd.

What s the problem with new vinyl pressings.

The machines that press vinyl records are decades old and no one s building new ones so keeping up with increased demand. The only pressings that i can say good things about are mfsl. 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. Every one i ve bought is dead quiet and problem free.

But if there s one problem with the vinyl resurgence it might be this. Shop your favorite lps and albums and receive free shipping with your b n membership. Its remaining presses to a plant being built in new jersey. He s watched enough vinyl pressings of albums by.

I agree many new pressings are a disappointment either in pressing quality or sound. I ve vented on this subj. When in doubt play the record on a friend s turntable or record shop to rule out the vinyl itself. New vinyl inflation adjusted isn t that bad.

We hope this article has provided guidance on why your new vinyl record is skipping. 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. It s also one of the many reasons black was settled on as a standard color. Has anyone else had a similar problem.

New vinyl pressings of the nightfly skipping. Rip v s other machines were split. 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. The only problem i encountered was a lot of skipping at the same places throughout the record s title track.

By ben rayner. Inflation for that 30 year period is a touch over 100. Unless you legitimately scrub the entire machine down between pressings it s impossible to get perfect every time. I picked up a newly pressed packaged record of the nightfly the other day and it sounds and plays great.