However, if you do get a decent quality record, I think the quality is
better than the older stuff, but still I totally agree with you.
Dan Howells
dan1@dircon.co.uk
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> From: grandblk@grove.ufl.edu
> To: acid-jazz@UCSD.EDU
> Subject: Do They Make Vinyl Like They Used To?
> Date: 08 August 1996 10:18 am
>
>
> I've been having this debate with friends for about the last week or so
> over the quality of new records vs. old records. It seems that vinyl
> today sounds worse and is less durable than wax pressed back in the day
> (up to, say, 1985). Maybe I'm just having bad luck, but I feel like I can
> hardly touch new vinyl without it scratching up; I have played my copy
> of _Headz_ maybe 4 times and always taken good care of it (kept it in the
> covers, no fingerprints, etc.), but when we tried to mix with it, it kept
> skipping. I know people who have bought 12-inches that were skipping as
> soon as they took it out of the wrapper! By comparison, I can pull out
> records that weere in thrift store condition when I got them (no cover,
> visible wear-and-tear, etc) and still play them without any problems.
> When my friends and I were making mix tapes recently, they had to keep
> stopping beause their (hip-hop) records would skip while I was able to
> make a tape of old funk using the oldest records in the house without one
> problem. It's not a needle problem either, because I'vve played the same
> records on everything from those old-school
> stereo-systems-with-a-turntable to some 1200s and gotten the same result:
> new vinyl skips, old wax doesn't. I've gotten to the point where I would
> rather have new releases on cd rather than wax, because (among other
> factors) I feel I have to be extra-sensitive with new wax to keep it
> playing. [I don't want to start another wax-vs-cd thread]
>
> Has anyone else encountered this? Are today's records made more shoddily
> (cheaper quality vinyl, bad preessing plants) than in the past?
>
> Anthony