HW: Remasters of the Universe

[K Henderson]

Hi Folks...

Just wondering...

Has anybody taken a close look at their copies of the five EMI-UK Remasters
of the Universe (i.e., HW-through-Mountain Grill)?  Apart from the weak glue
that seemed to give way on the tray for the HW S/T (I've seen several of
these like that), a couple of the discs themselves look a little strange to
me.  They all play just fine, but two of them have a strange shadowy
appearance (I'm talking the all-important underside obviously) over a large
area around the outside rim (these are long enough discs that this area
matters, unlike some 40-minute albums) that doesn't look ideal to my eyes.
[It's different than the irregular two-tone pattern in the surface 'glaze'
(or whatever that stuff is) that I see sometimes...rather, it seems to be
'deep' within the acrylic.]  One of the other ones has a very small bit like
this also...the other two are 'clean.'  I don't know if they were always
like this and I never noticed?  Anyway, it doesn't really look like
degradation (though I really don't know about this sort of thing), but these
are the sort of discs that I can't do without.  Do I need to burn copies as
"backup"?

The well-known Dovetail Ozrics discs (Pungent Effulgent for me) are the only
manufactured discs I've ever had go bad with aging to the point of being
unplayable.  (I've had a couple others that were manufactured with defects,
though that's a different story.)

Grakkl (FAA)