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The record pressing machines are wearing out
http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/ ... earing-out

Vinyl comeback: Sony to produce records again after 28-year break

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/30/news/so ... index.html

The RRF website software has been screwed up for a long while now, so here is a direct link to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxkSRvkKF9k

Another one

American success story: Manufacturing vinyl records
Jul. 01, 2017 - 2:17 - United Record Pressing expands workforce with new interest from millennials
http://video.foxnews.com/v/549018140000 ... show-clips

Some more interesting threads.

http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php? ... gs.698195/

http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php? ... on.730518/

Recording, '50s Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-scxybnp0

LPs vs. CDs interview MP3 format
https://od.lk/d/OV8xMzM3MTYzMDdf/LPSvsCDs.mp3

Half-Speed Mastering at Abbey Road Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjgPVipuXc

I had a couple Mobile Fidelity LPs years ago. Also, they used half speed mastering with CD-4 quadraphonic records.

Quad was such a disaster with all the competing formats. I think the powers that be actually learned from that when Sony and Philips were developing the CD format.

Any thread which mentions the return of vinyl in this age should absolutely at least mention Jack White's Third Man Records, which is at least partially responsible for the recent resurgence of vinyl:

With LPs coming back, maybe my kids will finally understand what I mean when I say "he/she sounds like a scratched record"....

antipodean wrote:With LPs coming back, maybe my kids will finally understand what I mean when I say "he/she sounds like a scratched record"....

Pressed on serious 180g vinyl.

https://www.popsike.com/180g-Vinyl-LP-N ... 38773.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMORo59vhkI

Pressing problems for a record future
New Scientist 24 Jan 1980

https://od.lk/s/OV8xMzc1MDQ2MDVf/NS-p226-229.pdf