Pressing Issues

Thanks for the responses everyone. I'm hearing it on Chick Corea/Return to Forever LP, ECM1022. It's from 1972, looks original but I could be wrong? I noticed the sax prior to it playing, between quiet passages, during "Crystal Silence".

Well, one way to actually cheack if it is tape print through or caused by adjacent track formation:
The mater tape print through will not be a perfect one lp rotation ahead of the actual track.
Where if it IS adjacent track issue then the faint modulation will be exactly one record revolution ahead every time.

Perhaps it is a manifestation of the "future absorber-past absorber" theory of radiation proposed by Fred Hoyle and his associate J. Narlacar [sp.?] in which events radiate equally into the past and future.

I had a LOT of this manifestation, with my previous turntable. Especially playing the MFSL issue of 'The Dark Side of the Moon'(most noticeable at the beginning of, 'Breathe'). Not a trace of this, with my VPI clamping system, and acrylic/lead platter(volume cranked/no other changes in system).

Elizabeth,

I was going to say the exact same thing, but yo beat me to it. If the pre-echo plays at anything less that one full rotation of the LP before the actual sound, it's not a vinyl issue. It's bleed through. My reel to reel tapes consistently show this phenomenon. It would not be heard on reel to reels if it was strictly a vinyl issue.

It may not be heard on a CD as they may delete the silence at the beginning of a track where bleed through was evident and replace it with a gap or actual silence.