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Doug, funny, but I never had a problem with my RCA "Dynagroove" vinyl, even though it is incredibly lightweight and flimsy!

Stew, the older Japanese pressing of the YES "FRAGILE" vinyl is quite good as well!

Hi Fatparrot,

DynaGROOVE records were lighter than Shaded Dogs, but they were still around 110-120g - reasonable. It was only during the later DynaFLEX era that RCA's records got truly flimsy, under 80g in many cases.

Regarding poor quality vinyl, to be fair I should have said "some" Dynagrooves. Like you I have Dynagrooves which are nicely silent. Others have general background noise that resists all cleaning and which I can only attribute to poor quality vinyl.

That cost-cutting, "they won't hear the difference" mind shift which drove lighter record weights, dynamic compression and frequency balancing for low-volume/low-fidelity playback presumably also drove a move to lower cost materials.

My copy of "Fragile" is also extremely good, and minty too. (Yes, Doug actually owns a rock record. Who knew?!) I wouldn't think of replacing it, but it's great there's a well mastered new release for those who need one.

Same experience. I had a Thread about it, too:

Records without ticks, pops ....

If they would just slow down the pressing process a little and let the damn biscuit settle into the stamper a bit longer, all that surface noise would go away. I know time is money but just a bit longer will help. I have several Classic releases that have noise on the outer/lead in part of the groove and this is symptomatic of that very problem.

What's the damn hurry Classic Records?

I don't buy anything from Classic records period! Who wants to spend 30.00 for a bad sounding record!