Do Poor Quality Modern Pressings Provide Any Value?

they do because not all of them are bad.

@larsman why does their quality swing in such big directions. I have vastly more GZ presses that are poor versus quality pressings. I'll take unknown plants if GZ as a general rule to be completely honest. 

I saw some discussion of that, and it seems that a lot of poorly recorded source material is also pressed at GZ as well. Garbage in, garbage out, I suppose.

@larsman do we know why or how it happens? I've heard records that sound horrible compared to digital versions. Is this from how the source files are sent in? Is it from a label literally looking at this as a profit center and not listening to test pressings? It just seems even small labels wouldn't want this low quality of records to be put out, but I guess I'm just naive. I'd as a consumer pay more if labels would actually put in the work, but maybe asking for decent quality is just too much. 

Hi @j-wall  - I wish I could find that article or video where the fellow from Vinyl Me Please addressed the concerns about GZ pressing, and how GZ did such an awesome job on the Miles set and some others from VMP. But he's the one that mentioned that GZ gets pressing jobs from all kinds of labels, and quality control may not be the best at some of them, or they may have just been poorly recorded. But in essence, it's 'Don't blame the pressing plant for bad pressings if they were given something bad to press'....  But yeah, when that happens, people can easily draw the wrong conclusions that the plant is the problem.