New Records noisy

" If I want perfection I have to buy CDs ", well, I don't want to "see" that so "black/white", but when I started this topic, I wanted to say, a few years ago I bought nearly everything, which was offered and I was very satisfied with the qualitiy. I don't mean tape noise or something like that, that's ok for me, I mean noises and pops and groove noises which makes a Record nearly unlistenable and my next experience is, a few CR get worse after playing them a few times. Seems I am not alone with my frustration ...

Sorry Thomas, I didn't mean to be b&w. I am on your side.;) And it is absolutely unacceptable to spend some $120 on "The Royal Ballet Gala Performance" 45rpm reissue, and then you have to send the LP back because it is damaged. This happened to me. The LP had some serious pressing damages. There were some kind of dust burned into the record. And the substitutes, which I received, has still some problems. I have not had the noise problem yet. But I think that is because I mainly buy 180g records, which were pressed a few years ago. IMO, if you want a premium price, as a company like CR, then you have to deliver premium quality.

wc65mustang......i have a way of bringing that quote out in people.....like when dan ackroyd would would say, "jane, you evil slut". for $40 the 45 rpm lp's should be quiet throughout the 4 sides and the gain should never have to be adjusted from side to side. even worse the unnatural break in the artist's 'song-cycle' is like an 8 track. at least they don't fade out a song on one side and fade in on another.

I have been very happy with recent Sundazed 180 Gram presssings, in fact I have not had to send a single one back. True their catalog is not full of your mainstream artists but I have purchased The Paul Butterfield Blues Band catalog,Love and The Stooges and I think the sound is awesome. When I compared my original pressing of Revisited by Love with the Sundazed it was neck and neck. And they are half the price of Classic. You can buy them online too and cut out the middle man. I have to agree that the quality of Classic has gone down hill,I've had to return two recordings in the last 6 months.

I bought a new 45 RPM Classic reissue Willie Nelson Stardust and one of the lp's out of the 5 was somwwhat noisy.I tried to hand clean it,and instead of making things better,it increased the surface noise dramatically.I know now I'll need to get a Nitty Gritty RCM to fix it now.
I think it's best with this current batch of reissues not to clean the new LP's we get.I IMO JUST SEEMS TO MAKE THINGS MUCH WORSE THEN BEFORE HAND.