Bad pressing. Could be it is the stamper in which case virtually all will be like that and no point trying to exchange. Or could be your copy in which case maybe the next one is a lot better. Records being what they are you would only have to send em back one to 5 times to figure it out. And people wonder why I so seldom buy new vinyl.
new Allison Krause & Robert Plant Pressing seems noisy
Just dropped on vinyl today. been waiting a good decade for a follow up to Raising Sand and while this material is fantastic, seems like I got a noisy pressing. Not many pops and clicks but noise is there on everything. Switched to 10 other albums and dead quiet. Getting the same jam on the clearaudio Stradivari v2, Benz LP-S, and the new super slick Goldenberg Brilliant cart. Ran it through a few washes, a tad better, but it's got a noisy floor. Wonder if anyone else is getting this.
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No, millercarbon is correct, they will all be like this. This was the problem with popular music decades ago. The noise is in the stampers. The company being used to do the pressing has a hygeine problem somewhere along the line. It takes meticulous shop keeping to get through all the processing without intruducing issues that cause noise. This is where digital comes into play. I assume you are talking about Raise the Roof. It is available in 24/96 digital. The thing is, This is Rounder Records who usually do an excellent job with their vinyl. I would see if they have a contact line and tell them what you have. See what they will do. I just had it out with Blue Note over a severely defective pressing. They kept sending me the same defective pressing over and over. 4 times in spite of my telling them they had to throw the whole batch away and start over. I gave up. It is like running into a concrete wall. |
@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?..... |
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