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barretter · 1st Jul 2015, 1:39 pm

I think the arguments deployed in the previous few posts only apply to pop music and not to classical or jazz LPs.

Welsh Anorak · 1st Jul 2015, 2:21 pm

Hi there
Some recent records are well cut and pressed (e.g. Thom Yorke's recent album) and others less so when they are just seen as a faddy alternative to the CD or (heaven help us) the MP3 download. Remember K-Tel in the Seventies with their 'double playing' albums - 40 minutes of quiet frequency restricted tracks? Not exactly hi-fi, but that was the point - quantity not quality. How things have changed - or have they?
I recently acquired quite a few classical LPs dating from the late Sixties to recent. Although not all to my taste I was pleased to get them. But how disappointing! By coincidence I had an identical copy of one - mine was fine (give or take surface noise) whereas the one I'd been given had little bass and nasal treble. The deck it had been played on for years was a fairly expensive Kenwood stack system which might have a good CD deck but featured a plough instead of a cartridge!
As the old advice went - the most expensive parts of your hi-fi system are the records.

1st Jul 2015, 1:39 pm	#61
barretter Heptode Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK. Posts: 870	Re: New Vinyl LP's I think the arguments deployed in the previous few posts only apply to pop music and not to classical or jazz LPs.

1st Jul 2015, 2:21 pm	#62
Welsh Anorak Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: North Wales, UK. Posts: 6,921	Re: New Vinyl LP's Hi there Some recent records are well cut and pressed (e.g. Thom Yorke's recent album) and others less so when they are just seen as a faddy alternative to the CD or (heaven help us) the MP3 download. Remember K-Tel in the Seventies with their 'double playing' albums - 40 minutes of quiet frequency restricted tracks? Not exactly hi-fi, but that was the point - quantity not quality. How things have changed - or have they? I recently acquired quite a few classical LPs dating from the late Sixties to recent. Although not all to my taste I was pleased to get them. But how disappointing! By coincidence I had an identical copy of one - mine was fine (give or take surface noise) whereas the one I'd been given had little bass and nasal treble. The deck it had been played on for years was a fairly expensive Kenwood stack system which might have a good CD deck but featured a plough instead of a cartridge! As the old advice went - the most expensive parts of your hi-fi system are the records.