Pressing Issues

Bill, that's the best answer I've heard, so thank you. I've heard everything from azimuth adjustment to non-virgin vinyl.

I get this affect, for example, with the Pure Pleasure re-issue of Stevie Ray Vaughan's Couldn't Stand the Weather. Now that I know the reason for this, it upsets me to pay a premium price for a premium re-issue that's not premium-pressed!

What I usually hear, faintly, is the beginning of the track right before it actually starts playing.

If it is the "tape" this would reason that all of the vinyl pressings from that tape would suffer the same result. Would it not?

After many given reasons, I had settled-in on my own non-scientific answer.

The stylus is picking up the future music from the other side of the groove because the wall of the groove is thin and the stylus is very sensitive.

Rodman, it seems like we may be able to stabalize this affect, but it may mean that we're simply damping the walls of the grooves to absorb and prevent the unwanted affect.

What I'm hearing every time, seems to support Elisabeth's adjacent track idea of one revolution away. It's my thin wall theory, or perhaps it's the composition of the vinyl, I don't know.

In any case, I think we need a better manufacturing standard, because I believe this is the cause of this unexpected result. Otherwise, just suck it up and enjoy.