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RE: LP quality.

I know this is an awkward thread to have this in, but you are the ONLY person on AA that I've seen mention what a hellish mess LP's became. My experience was that they went from the occasional bad one to the occasional good one. I basically quit buying the wretched things around '75 except for the Sheffield labs ones. I decided that since they had dropped support for open-real tape and ruined records by rotten QC and lumps of regrind and pre-recorded cassettes were garbage that they could just take a hike. I bought very little until CD came out around '83 and then started building my collection again.

And I'm not talking a little problems, massive warps, melted grooves, high distortion. An interesting speculation is whether this was just a ploy to increase profits at the expense of quality or a deeper scheme to build up the demand for a new format. Sometimes it can be tough to tell the difference between greed and conspiracy. Whichever, it worked. CD's brought the bucks rolling in to an industry dying by it's own hand.

So I just wanted to interrupt and say thank you, I couldn't believe that it was the only one that noticed. Ancient history now...

Rick

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