I didn't until I got the LP. After listening to the LP and SACD side by side I pulled the disc out and threw it against the wall. Hence the tiny little cracks!
The discs with "US" at the end of the item number are susceptible to the spindle cracks, from what I've heard. It happened to mine....I exchanged it for a non-US pressed item, and have had no problem. I don't know if the failure is a flaw in materials or manufacturing, buy it is appearing quite a bit on the "US" discs.
Yeah I mocked the discoverer of this defect until it happened to me. There was a big to do over at Audio Asylum and there were reports about it on Stereophile.com and another website which escapes my mind. The Japanese pressings have better quality artwork and the dont crack. I have both pressings. Im going to run the US version into the ground and then use the Japanese one.
I see them also, but just in the clear plastic radiating out @1/8" from spindle area not in the aluminum portion of CD. I just quickly checked a dozen other CDs at random and could find no other one with these cracks/crazing.....so must be some defect in blank CD or recording process to CD.
As long as it doesn't approach aluminum area I am not concerned.
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