"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message


In article , Keith G
wrote:

A better 'trick' might have been to realise that they'd
go out of business and be replaced by 'foreign'
manufacturers if they couldn't be bothered to deliver the
same level of quality and reliability at competing
prices.

But some UK makers of LPs simply assumed that they owned
the artists that people wanted to hear and would put up
with crapping manufacturing at the prices the suits the
makers. I recall that EMI refused to produce CDs for a
long time. The real reason probably being that they
didn't want to invest in being able to make them, or the
QC required. Easier to try and get people to go on buying
ever more poorly made LPs at lower prices, so they
thought...


The really scary part is where US music lovers and audiophiles were gaga
over "European Pressings", even those made in the UK.