Quick story with parrallel links...
A few members of our (local and loosley formed) Vinyl Club were treated to a (rarely granted) tour of the newest and largest record pressing plant in Canada, just under two months ago. (We were told they produce about 16 million units/year, all DMM, for almost every Record Company) Our tour was arranged by a member's neice, who was an employee and surprisingly, our tour was conducted by the VP of the plant, a former Rock Musician and Auto Industry Automation expert (all round Nice Guy too).
During the first stage, an orientation/Q&A session in the Boardroom, the VP was interested in what our interests were (all six of us have mid to Hi End systems), what our backgrounds were, specifically were any of us Musicians (I was P/T, early in life and one other still is) and how many records did each of us own (all in the thousands...). He told us about their short-ish history (about a dozen years) blah, blah, blah... Then we covered vinyl science, groove math, pressure, packaging... all that stuff but when we asked him about His Own System... it was a $200.00 Best Buy TT and wireless speakers...AHHHH WHATTT? And when one of us presented Analogue Production and Mobile Fidelity records for comment and comparison in sound quality, packaging and marketing... we were told "Waste of material, lost revenue and general nonsense". Ooookay...
The tour proceeded to the Plant, it was clean, interesting and busy. We saw Taylor Swift, Picture Discs, 10"... all kinds of product being maufactured by ral people and most seemed engaged and happy. Great outing...fine people, but Yeah... gotta wonder...