Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Serge Auckland
wrote:
Our dear departed friend Keith has posted this on his web site, so he
still has an interest in audio...........

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/show.htm

I got a link for a multi-MB download. Since I'm still using a POTS/modem
connection I decided I could live without that. Indeed, that I might not
live long enough to discover the contents weren't worth the wait. :-)

Anyone care to comment on what the download tells us?

Essentially it was a company that has taken over the original EMI
pressing machinery, and is turning out vinyl. Since they started the
numbers initially climbed, but have now plateaued at (I think) about a
million a year. The chap in charge had nothing to say about sound
quality - his thrust was that it was all about owning the "thing" and
what fun it was.

Mechanically it all looked very hit and miss, but the chap did say they
used a "process" to make it happen.

I would imagine that the pressing quality is rather better now than it
was in the '70s. If nothing else, having guards round the presses
should help to keep dust down. Health and Safety sometimes is of more
use than just the obvious.

Hard for me to tell. I've only acquired 8 LPs in the last 5+ years. These
are a box set of fancy-produced Henrix re-issues I got for comparison
purposes with a 4 CD set. One LP side is audibly off-center, and others
have clicks in various places. Came shrink-wrapped, so it looks like even
fancy LP issues still show manufacturing/factory problems. Alas, a guard
around the machine won't ensure they will bother to put the hole in the
center... :-)


It looks like SOTA equipment is rather confined to the playing side of
things. :-(

But overall, the sound seems fine - albeit at the cost of sides limited to
about 15 mins, so requiring 8 LPs.

That said, I discovered in another comparison that my old Frampton Live
double LP set has songs which were omitted from the single CD of the same.
Odd, since the timing would allow them to all fit onto one CD...

Slainte,

Jim


Never known omissions on CD - always extras.

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