new Allison Krause & Robert Plant Pressing seems noisy


Just dropped on vinyl today.  been waiting a good decade for a follow up to Raising Sand and while this material is fantastic, seems like I got a noisy pressing.  Not many pops and clicks but noise is there on everything.  Switched to 10 other albums and dead quiet.  Getting the same jam on the clearaudio Stradivari v2, Benz LP-S, and the new super slick Goldenberg Brilliant cart.  Ran it through a few washes, a tad better, but it's got a noisy floor.  Wonder if anyone else is getting this.

73cuttysupreme

Showing 2 responses by millercarbon

Cleaning won't help a bad pressing. Buying 300 other records says nothing about this one. Even buying this same record and having it be good won't really tell us anything conclusive. Because with 2 samples one noisy one quiet 50/50 still doesn't tell us which one is the norm. That is why I said you only have to return it one to 5 times to find out. 

The same has always been true, but back in the day there never were any records, at least not that I ever saw, that were as bad as what I have seen today. In the last several years I have seen bits of paper melted into the vinyl, dips so severe they cannot be tracked, noise so uniformly bad it intrudes even when the music is loud, warps so bad even my clamp won't flatten, and on and on. Back in the day we thought a tick or pop was worth a return. By that standard almost nothing today is a keeper. 

I know now someone will tell us how wonderful dead silent flat hot stamper yada yada yada their last 5 million new records were.

Yay! Happy for you.

Bad pressing. Could be it is the stamper in which case virtually all will be like that and no point trying to exchange. Or could be your copy in which case maybe the next one is a lot better. Records being what they are you would only have to send em back one to 5 times to figure it out. And people wonder why I so seldom buy new vinyl.