I agree, EMI and Phillips made wonderful recordings well into the late 70's.
Rob On Mar 5, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Eric Goldstein wrote:
The problem with 70s vinyl had little to do with the how thick or thin the pressing were, or the quality of the plastic itself. Making good pressings requires a clean process with a lot of quality control, and those practices are expensive. That is where American pressings began to be compromised. You could still get fine, careful pressings out of Europe in the 70s for reasonable money... Eric Goldstein --On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:53 AM, David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:In the early 1970s, the quality of vinyl became abysmal, as the record companies made their records thinner and thinner, with a lower qualityof plastic. Warpage and other manufacturing defects were a real problem.--- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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