some interesting stuff (and some nonsense imo) on this gearslutz thread
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
thickness is a weird thing, too, because the primary advantage to thickness, as i understand it, is that it prevents warpage, which is all to the good. some people say that it also allows the grooves to be cut deeper, and that this has an effect on the sound, but i dunno. i've had it on good authority that this is horseshit, that the cuts in vinyl even at their deepest are so shallow as to make this a non-issue. not an expert, so i can't say. personally, i've noticed that relatively thin records from the 70s and 80s (again, the end of the major label vinyl era) often sound GREAT, and i suspect that this is because they were being made in state-of-the art facilities by well-paid old-school pros to extremely high standards. i mean, until recently, when it's become fashionable, even high-end audiophile pressings didn't tend to be super thick.
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Saturday, 30 October 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
and, yeah, cool to read the pro talk from those pressing plant folks on the gearslutz thread
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Saturday, 30 October 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
DEEP GROOVE MONO LEXINGTON AVE
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 30 October 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
clear vinyl ime is flimsier which is likely why it sounds worse.
― omar little, Saturday, 30 October 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
huh... waited 5 months for something to get sent to me. coloured vinyl. Sounds like ass
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link