What are Your Favorite and Most hated Record Manufacturers

Thanks for resurrecting this thread. We are getting close to enough data for tabulation. Again, for simplicities sake there will be three columns, good, bad, hit or miss. Keep it coming! 

The older Pablo records could be very bad. I have a Sarah Vaughn record that hurts to listen to. It is so noisy. I stick to the CD reissues.

Damaged records are another problem. I just had an episode with Blue Note a division of United Artists. I ordered the new Ambrose Akinmusire album, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment." The firs copy came do dished I you not get it to seal on the Cosmos and it actually teeter-tottered under the tonearm. The second copy was exactly the same. I told them they had a problem with this entire batch. The third and forth copies were just as bad. They did not ask for the defective copies back so I started experimenting with a heat gun and managed to get one flat enough to play. Do not buy this record for at least a year. My guess is that one side of the press was not heating correctly so as the record cooled it dished. Nobody noticed and all their bureaucracy could do was keep sending me defective ones even though I warned them the whole batch was defective. I should have just asked for a refund.   

We Need more contributions!!

ebm, it is all right to hate companies that sell you crappy records.

Please get everyone to contribute. The more that do the more accurate this will be.

Thanx bdp24, spiritofradio and snackeyp. Great contributions. As for packaging. I have never had a problem with Elusive disc. Not a bent cover or a service issue. I have less experience with Music Direct. Acoustic Sounds is b generally OK. From Amazon you can count on a bent cover. They just throw the record in a box with a few balloons. So, the record slides around in there banging itself up. 
I have to add Bandcamp to the very high quality side. Not had a bad one from them yet.  https://bandcamp.com/
I also forgot Decca (London) great records. 
I have to also say that Deutche Grammophon can be hit or miss. I have not bought a new one in years.
What can you say about the Kinks. Ray Davies is one of a kind. I believe he was even knighted. 
As for criteria for the final list I think if a label is mentioned three time in either column and not in the other it will be included in that column. If it is mentioned in both it will be included in a third non committal column. So there will be three columns. Great, Bad and Hit or Miss. If you disagree with this method please speak up now:)

slaw, where are you finding these companies??

So far on the Plus side we have,

Analog Productions (I think pressed by QRP)
QRP (labeled as such)
RTI
Friday music
Pallas
MoFi (nice fingerprints also)
Reference Recordings (Pressed by QRP, Lath by Nelson Pass)
Speaker's Corner
Sundazed 
Ace Records 

Any More??

Go figure. Great minds hear alike? 
 

rshak, Acoustic Sounds is Analog Productions. MC, Reference Recordings is still going strong and making great product but the others are sadly extinct. Yes John, Ryco is now owned by Warner which is more than likely the problem. I forgot about Sundazed. I'm pretty sure all my Sundazed records are high quality. Bear Family is a store specializing in Pre Beatles music. They do not make records.  Yarlung is very small doing only craft music. MoFi does OK for the most part.
Oh and MC go to Analog Productions and buy the record by Janis Ian, Breaking Silence. I promise this record will give you a new standard for recording quality never mind the 11 great tunes and her voice. 

Mike

Thanx for the optimism schubert. I am trying to make a list of the record companies that people have had good results with so that we can all have an idea whose products are more likely to be of a higher quality. There are plenty of small companies whose products I have yet to try and I would not mind knowing who people here think does a good job.