HW RE: off into dodgy vinyl ness

[pauleatonjones]

I seem to remember reading an article in Melody Maker/Sounds in the mid
'80's that record companies were indeed re-cycling old records and this
accounted for the terrible crackles, hisses jumps etc. I had to take
Nik Turner's Sphynx 'Xitintoday' l.p. back 6 times before I had a
playable copy. And that was as early as 1978. Deke Leonard's 'Iceberg'
4 times before I gave it up as a bad job. The list was almost endless
and got worse in the years immediately preceding the c.d. revolution.
Hurrah for that.  Paul.
On Tuesday, Apr 27, 2004, at 19:19 Europe/London, Jon Jarrett wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Paul Mather wrote:
>
>> Now that vinyl is a niche market, and pretty much a collector's
>> medium, the new vinyl releases tend to be very well pressed, often
>> using virgin vinyl.  I've not had the benefit of hearing any (my
>> turntable is many, many miles away), but I'd imagine such audiophile
>> pressings would sound superb.
>
>         I've got a couple of decent pressings (the Gates of Dawn
> releases
> of Steven Wilson stuff most rapidly spring to mind) and they are rather
> gorgeous, both in sound and as artefacts. I can tell I'm listening to
> vinyl, partly because my stereo's turntable has a silly low output and
> has to be turned up, so more line noise; but the vinyl surface noise I
> get
> off something like my old Flicknife _Zones_ is fabulously absent.
>
>         I'm curious as to this idea of recycled vinyl; what was it
> being
> recycled from? Not old records surely!
>
>         Oh, and while I'm on the subject, does anyone know if such
> things
> as one-channel pre-amps are available which might solve my turntable
> problem? Yours all,
>                     Jon
>
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> --
>                 Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College, London
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>