Jim wrote:
Yeah, that's some curse that's been buggin some U.S. vinyls for ages. For
some time it was obvious to expect U.S. vinyl to sound shitty, it had a
"cheap"-feeling to it, making it more "underground" (as
ridiculous as it seems).
A_Zed wrote:
I once heard that the extreme temperatures between summer and winter around
the Michigan area resulted in records buckling over time if they are left
in warehouses (esp if they are still in shrinkwraps). All my records on
Plus 8, Telepathic, UR, and others all have slight warping.
When the 'vinyl warping' thread last popped-up on the list (maybe 9 months
ago) someone from NSC in Detroit (Ron?) posted a really informative
explaination to the whole situation. Something about the US having older
record presses (compared to Europe), not being able to cut the master plates
as deep, and using lower quality vinyl compounds.
Maybe someone could dig the original post out of the archives?
~Askew
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