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Bought my first new audiophile LP...back it goes

I opened my 200g pressing of Neil Young's "Prairie Wind" today. Had my Audio Intelligent cleaner all ready to go. Slipped the first licorice disc out of it's poly record sleeve...and it had three 3"x1/2" stains of some kind. I gently tried to clean them off using AI step 1 and AI step 2 and a soft cotton cloth, but to no avail. One other side was stained, too. So, back it goes to Elusive Disc. For $40 I expect the vinyl to be pristine and absolutely free of defects or stains.

Is this common with new audiophile vinyl? What a hassle...
tvad
vinylvin
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I just received the new "Fragile", huge scuff/scrape
mark across the whole begininng of the 2nd side right
through the first song. $29.98 + shipping, now I have
to send it back to Acoustic Sounds, what a hassle.

But, I also bought the new "Dark Side of the Moon"
which is perfect & the new "Modern Times" by Dylan.
The Dylan is perfect, 2 180gm LPs, beautiful gatefold
w/inserts for $13.99! at Newbury Comics in Mass.
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johnjbarlow
175 posts
 
Don't give up on vinyl Tvad. I sometimes feel like I get away with stealing when I score a mountain of great vinyl from my used record shop. I mean $3.-$4. for records that blow anything on CD away. I have over 4 thousand LP's since 1998. I would say conservativley that 80% are better sounding than anything I have heard on CD.
I made the switch back to vinyl, and out of 2 thousand cd's I would guess that more than 2/3 of them sounded like crap.

I think that the recording industry is the culprit here. They moan about falling Cd sales. Why would some poor kid want to pay $18. for something that doesn't sound any better than what he can download for free?
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whart
1,930 posts
 
Well, good ol Chad Kassem was kind enough to ship me a replacement copy of the new Krall vinyl and guess what- still nasty- scratchy sounding, leading edge of the vinyl looks scuffed, like it came off the press sideways. Too bad, she sings standards on this one, and the sonics seem pretty good behind all the noise and scratchiness. Has anybody gotten a good copy of this record, out of curiousity?
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
the new "fragile" on vinyl is indeed not the original, and is actually harder sounding than the japanese mini lp. i think the guys phoned this one in.
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
Johnjbarlow wrote: "Why would some poor kid want to pay $18. for something that doesn't sound any better than what he can download for free?"

Not defending record company pricing, but AAMOF (thanks Nrchy!), most of the downloading you're talking about isn't or can't be done at CD quality resolution, and a heck of a lot of that isn't done for free anymore either.
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