new Allison Krause & Robert Plant Pressing seems noisy

@millercarbon , Pressings in the 70's and 80's could just as bad or worse. With Warner, Columbia, RCA, Epic and Capital you could never be sure what you were going to get. Sometimes great, sometimes awful. Today at least you can identify a few companies that you get consistenly decent pressing. In the old days the only pressings you could be sure of were European classical discs and even some of the like DGG startedto suffer. This is what drove people to spend more on MoFi discs. I like vinyl but if I can get a properly mastered 24/96 file I will take it any day. Don't think so? Check out Steven Wilsons Remix of Aqualung in 24/96. If you do not think that sounds better than any prior version you have heard vinyl or otherwise?.....

Steven Wilsons Remix of Aqualung in 24/96 sounds different. Does it sound better? It's a matter of taste.

My lp is on order. Will report back.

No, millercarbon is correct, they will all be like this.

 

How do you know that?

I can't speak to this particular record yet, I will have it soon, , but I've purchased at least 300 new records in the past year or so and except for a few have had very little or no noise. I do clean them before I play them so I don't know what they are like before they are cleaned, but I view cleaning all records as an essential part of the process so it really doesn't matter to me what they are like before they are cleaned. 

Cleaning won't help a bad pressing. Buying 300 other records says nothing about this one. Even buying this same record and having it be good won't really tell us anything conclusive. Because with 2 samples one noisy one quiet 50/50 still doesn't tell us which one is the norm. That is why I said you only have to return it one to 5 times to find out. 

The same has always been true, but back in the day there never were any records, at least not that I ever saw, that were as bad as what I have seen today. In the last several years I have seen bits of paper melted into the vinyl, dips so severe they cannot be tracked, noise so uniformly bad it intrudes even when the music is loud, warps so bad even my clamp won't flatten, and on and on. Back in the day we thought a tick or pop was worth a return. By that standard almost nothing today is a keeper. 

I know now someone will tell us how wonderful dead silent flat hot stamper yada yada yada their last 5 million new records were.

Yay! Happy for you.