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RE: Great and Terrible Vinyl

Posted by flood2 (A) on March 15, 2025 at 16:58:58

In Reply to: Great and Terrible Vinyl posted by Bikefi10 on March 12, 2025 at 12:04:02:

That's a big part of why CDs rapidly caught on the 80s. The unfortunate thing these days is that quality is still variable because the pressing plants (which had scaled down if they hadn't otherwise gone out of business in the late 90s, early 2000s) are now so log jammed with orders that they clearly cut corners in quality. I've had Optimal pressings with large threads of vinyl stuck across the grooves making the entire side unplayable.
Off-centred records, dished records are almost the norm now I am finding.
The tragic part of this is that vinyl now costs roughly what I was paying for CDs in the late 80s and early 90s (factoring in inflation) whilst CDs are the price of what vinyl ended up being during the same period.
There's no doubt that on a good system, well-mastered and well produced vinyl sounds better than the equivalent CD when doing a comparison (and I am restricting that comment to standard commercial releases not audiophile reissues....largely because they are mastered badly with clipping on intersample overs and excessive compression and not because digital is inferior because the opposite is actually the case by every measurable parameter), but boy are we getting ripped off by the poor quality.

Regards Anthony

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