hoffa_nagila
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Nov 16, 2019 15:12:40 GMT
Why Is Vinyl So Unsatisfying?
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Nov 16, 2019 15:24:40 GMT
I bought five of those albums on vinyl. Apart from a minor blemish on the Mark Hollis LP that distorted it on first play, I’ve no complaints on any of them.
Some people just want to find fault.
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Post by bradman on Nov 16, 2019 20:50:05 GMT
English bob may need to brush up on the definition of insanity.
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Post by Mediocrates on Nov 16, 2019 22:12:38 GMT
Please allow me to list all of the rakes I have stepped on.
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on Nov 16, 2019 23:15:18 GMT
Over the years, I think I’ve returned fewer than 10 records to Amazon, and the vast majority of those were because they sent me the wrong item.
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Post by bradman on Nov 16, 2019 23:18:24 GMT
They all seem to be warped. Perhaps he lives on Venus, and the packages are left on the porch.
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Post by FabGear Prophylactic on Dec 7, 2019 4:33:50 GMT
Fair enough (i like ceedees) but I don't remember many records that were so badly made back in the good ol' days as the whining guy's list would indicate. Was i too tolerant? Have record plants become wildly incompetent? Is the whining guy exaggerating? I don't understand.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2019 10:41:37 GMT
Fair enough (i like ceedees) but I don't remember many records that were so badly made back in the good ol' days as the whining guy's list would indicate. Was i too tolerant? Have record plants become wildly incompetent? Is the whining guy exaggerating? I don't understand. I was just going to say the same exact thing. Until I discovered Hoofyville I don’t even think I knew anyone with a warped record. I remember shopping with my mom and buying an album with her putting it in the trunk of the car to keep the heat and sun off of it while we were finishing grocery shopping. That’s the extent of my experience.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Dec 7, 2019 12:34:11 GMT
My friend left his cassette copy of Jazz by Queen on the dash of his car in summer in Phoenix. It melted. That’s it for me.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Dec 7, 2019 13:53:22 GMT
Fair enough (i like ceedees) but I don't remember many records that were so badly made back in the good ol' days as the whining guy's list would indicate. Was i too tolerant? Have record plants become wildly incompetent? Is the whining guy exaggerating? I don't understand. It's almost like the standard was raised once CDs and then digital files were introduced. Suddenly snap, crackles, and pops were no longer a necessary evil.
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Dec 7, 2019 14:57:32 GMT
Fair enough (i like ceedees) but I don't remember many records that were so badly made back in the good ol' days as the whining guy's list would indicate. Was i too tolerant? Have record plants become wildly incompetent? Is the whining guy exaggerating? I don't understand. The early 80s was a bad time for vinyl. For instance, I’ve read in one of the old price guides that an astronomically high amount of “Thriller” was shipped defective (mostly from overused stampers) and CBS knew it and didn’t care. Personally, I exchanged two skipping copies of “Synchronicity” before I got the tape, but that’s the only thing I can say for sure. The only reason I remember that is it was an exception though. I have seen folks “in the biz” acknowledge that QC wasn’t very good right before CDs took over, but I’m sure consumers were a bit more tolerant too. (To be fair, I’d also point out rekkids were much cheaper then, weren’t claiming to be audiphool quality and I’d assume the average buyer was playing them on something closer to a Crosley.)
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Post by FabGear Prophylactic on Dec 9, 2019 4:22:44 GMT
That matches my memory of the state of things way back then. I (in my usual paranoia) assumed it was part of the "marketing push" to convince us to move to ceedees and repurchase our music library all over again. Maybe not mere paranoia though.
But even then I don't think I could have amassed a list of faults as terribad as documented by the Shiteville vinyl lover. Off-centre pressings were quite rare. Bad warping (I mean serious enough to care about) was almost always due to poor storage. Too bad these melancholy, disillusioned new-age vinyl types don't have any alternative media in which to purchase music. <sigh>
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Dec 10, 2019 0:52:12 GMT
I bought and returned a copy of the Clash’s Sandinista a few weeks ago because the second side played a Colin Blunstone album. Oops?
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Post by audiopro on Dec 10, 2019 20:50:03 GMT
I bought Abbey Road new in 1990. When I got it home, it was so off-centre that the arm swung about half an inch. I took it back to Woolworth's, who told me they weren't exchanging vinyl, even if obviously defective. I contacted EMI directly, who exchanged it by post.
I bought my first CD player shortly after.
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Post by daved on Feb 24, 2020 23:29:40 GMT
Asked a buddy of mine who works in a Memphis pressing plant about the lacquer plant fire. His answer:
Not sure what that means but he said the plant owner told him this.
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