What's Spinning

POGunter said:
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I miss the days when new vinyl could be had for under $3 bucks. But, the sad truth is I was really short on $1 bills at that time in my life. 😞
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And the other sad truth - most of those pedestrian pressings were flatter, quieter and had better sound quality than a lot of the limited, numbered, 180 gram garbage the industry is pawning off at $35 a pop today. The music matters.
 
POGunter said:
Yes, there was a window in time when they really did know how to mass produce really good sounding records.
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I was thinking about that while reading a related discussion earlier on the site. I have some 60s/70s records from Japan that are so thin that they're kinda flimsy when you hold them and they sound incredible. The knowledge that we've failed to pass on and is for all purposes lost in such a brief window of time is just sad.
 
Hemotep said:
I was thinking about that while reading a related discussion earlier on the site. I have some 60s/70s records from Japan that are so thin that they're kinda flimsy when you hold them and they sound incredible. The knowledge that we've failed to pass on and is for all purposes lost in such a brief window of time is just sad.
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Same with some, but not all, RCA Dynaflex pressings from around the early 70s oil embargo. Some good sounding Jefferson Airplane stuff. Dynamics were a little limited compared to regular weight records but most rock was compressed by that time anyway.
 
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