new Allison Krause & Robert Plant Pressing seems noisy

@herman , The record is noisy because of the conditions it was subject to during it’s manfacture. All the records pressin that run were subject to the exact same conditions. If the stamper was bad, all the records that come off that stamper (1000) will be just as noisy. If you wait until another run is made you might get a quiet one.

 

that is a bit different than your original post where you said "they would all be like this." If it is the stamper then of course yes, but you did not say that, you said "all" and "the noise is in the stampers" as if all stampers are noisy. I hate to be the grammar police and don’t want to get in a pissing contest, but all I can go on is what you state.

and I disagree that it is definitelvly in the stamper. I bought a record from Acoustic Sounds recently that had a crackling noise throughout. They replaced it and the second record is just fine. While it is possible I got pressings from different stampers, I doubt it since it came from the same seller. Also, they replaced it with no hassle, but told me they had no other complaints or returns of this title. If others got the same noisy record I did I can’t imagine there would not have been more returns.

All that said, I wholeheartedly agree with your last statement about the condition of most current pressings. I have been overwhelmingly pleased with them.

thanks for the feedback

good record, but not as good as "raising sand"--material is a bit more uniformly downcast + no amount of studio craft can obscure the fact that plant's voice is wearing out

not many spring chicken voices here on AG either, I will settle for Robert in 2021

On the stamper thing....sure a prefect plating job is just one of many steps where things can go awry...there are many more not specific to the stamper.... there is this cool thing called Ishikawa diagram, study it...

@loomisjohnson , I absolutely agree. I just got the digital download.

@herman , I should have said you should assume all are bad. Not that you should not try to get a better one but, as with my recent experience with Blue Note it can be like pulling teeth. In this case the heater elements were not balanced and all the records came out dished. They kept sending me dished records in spite of my insisting on waiting for the next run. 

Another comment I wish to make about modern records and reissues. I have had somebad reissues. Little Feat's Last Record Album was disgusting. However. modern monitoring and mastering equipment is far more advanced than years back leading to more accurate versions particularly of old rock records. Frank Zappa's early records were all muted but the remasters are terrific. Surrealistic Pillow and Baxters are another example. The record industry was making records for kids with crappy record players as cheaply as possible so they could afford them. They took Jazz and Classical far more seriously. The differences were obvious on my fathers system. I am not sure where this "gotta have original pressings" came from but I don't. If the modern analog version is no good I just download a file if one is available. This Happened with The Cure's Disintegration. After three bad copies I gave up and got the file which is excellent. 

so mine is dead quiet including the lead in and between songs, at least side one

the dead wax on side one has 

j powell

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