HW: value of some items

[Todd Hong]

I don't know about the more modern hi-fi pressings, but in my collection of
LPs (about 1000) the 1-4, 2-3 pressing is 95% of all my double sets.

Todd H

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Mather [mailto:paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:03 PM
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Subject: Re: HW: value of some items


Denis Regenbrecht wrote:

> - "Space Ritual" original pressing but with interchanged sides (disc 1 ->
> sides 1 and 4, disc 2 -> 2 and 3)

I came into possession of a copy of _Electric Ladyland_ by the Jimi
Hendrix Experience that was pressed this way.  I thought, "hey, a
mispressing!" until a friend reminded me, "no---that's so you can stack
it and play it."

Indeed, I was enlightened, because I remembered ye olde home cheapo
turntables that had an extra long spindle upon which discs could be
stacked.  Each time the tonearm reached the end of a disc and
auto-returned, it would let the next one drop and start over to play
it.  (Yes, I know, fully automatic turntables, very non-hi-fi!)  Anyway,
in such a turntable, a 2LP set pressed in such a fashion enables you to
stack the two LPs so that it will play sides 1 & 2 in order, then you
can flip the whole stack over to play sides 3 & 4 in order.

I wonder if that is how double LPs were commonly pressed in the early
70s, and whether it was only with reissues that we got the more "hi-fi"
centric pressings with which we are familiar today?

Cheers,

Paul.
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