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What are Your Favorite and Most hated Record Manufacturers

I have had great luck with Analog Productions and Friday Music.
I will not buy another Rycodisc pressing.
At the end of this thread I will make a list of the most loved and hated record companies. Hopefully this will make life easier for us vinyl lovers and we can send a message to the bad companies by not purchasing their products and just maybe they will increase their quality. 

Mike
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mijostyn OP
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So far on the Plus side we have,

Analog Productions (I think pressed by QRP)
QRP (labeled as such)
RTI
Friday music
Pallas
MoFi (nice fingerprints also)
Reference Recordings (Pressed by QRP, Lath by Nelson Pass)
Speaker's Corner
Sundazed 
Ace Records 

Any More??
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bdp24
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Rounder and Sugar Hill. Chris Hillman has two pure Bluegrass albums on the latter, both with great music and sound quality. I tend to not include audiophile labels on these kinds of lists, for the well known reason that their musical content is most often of no interest (to me, at least). But there are of course exceptions. I'll leave those nominees to others. ;-)
helomech
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Just about anything pressed for Capitol these days is atrocious. 
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bdp24
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Capitol has always made terrible LP's, one reason in the 60's and 70's we bought British E.M.I. copies of as many titles as we could.
boxer12
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A few smaller labels that I've found good are:
Constellation
3 Lobbed Records
K
Arts & Crafts
Fire
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