Pressing Issues

It's usually not a pressing issue but a tape storage issue. The print through being the result of adjacent wraps of tape on the reel magnetizing one another. The only choice would be not to reissue that particular tape, or to try to locate a safety master that was stored differently, or has a different tape formulation. It's a crap shoot, at best.

The reason that many original issues sound better than modern reissues is that magnetic tape can be very volitile, and we are speaking of tape that is 30-50 years old. I hear drop outs, print through and other artifacts on many modern reissues that are simply not there on the original pressings.

No care in pressing a record, the best press, tape deck, finest formulation, etc., is ever going to compensate for a degraded tape.

The cause is bleed through of the master tape.

If it is the "tape" this would reason that all of the vinyl pressings from that tape would suffer the same result. Would it not?

Also wouldn't it be evident on a CD as well?

After many given reasons, I had settled-in on my own non-scientific answer.

The stylus is picking up the future music from the other side of the groove because the wall of the groove is thin and the stylus is very sensitive.