Hi all,
Lask weekend got myself a Pro-Ject record deck from Richer Sounds as a bit of an impulse purchase. Really happy with the hardware and blown away by the listening experience playing some of my father in law's old records, but all gone bad as far as new records concerned...
Paid my local record store £20 for Radiohead Pablo Honey. Wasn't actually sold as new, rather ex/ex condition. Got it home and found one side (repeat, just one side) plays such that the stylus is moving ~8mm side to side; i.e. the whole cut is visibly off-centre relative to the hole! Sounds awful. Annoying. How did they even achieve this at the factory?!?!? Anyway, took it back and friendly record store dude gives me a brand new, 180gm, in-cellophane copy of same (Capitol records). Got this home, all excited...finally I can experience this great work in natural sounding vinyl glory...but, hang on...why's that stylus moving like that? Not side to side this time, but up and down. Its warped. Very warped. The stylus is having to do something akin to a motocross race, getting air at one point every lap. ***. Now I gotta do the 30mile round trip again to the record store.
Anyone else heard of this. What's going on?
Lask weekend got myself a Pro-Ject record deck from Richer Sounds as a bit of an impulse purchase. Really happy with the hardware and blown away by the listening experience playing some of my father in law's old records, but all gone bad as far as new records concerned...
Paid my local record store £20 for Radiohead Pablo Honey. Wasn't actually sold as new, rather ex/ex condition. Got it home and found one side (repeat, just one side) plays such that the stylus is moving ~8mm side to side; i.e. the whole cut is visibly off-centre relative to the hole! Sounds awful. Annoying. How did they even achieve this at the factory?!?!? Anyway, took it back and friendly record store dude gives me a brand new, 180gm, in-cellophane copy of same (Capitol records). Got this home, all excited...finally I can experience this great work in natural sounding vinyl glory...but, hang on...why's that stylus moving like that? Not side to side this time, but up and down. Its warped. Very warped. The stylus is having to do something akin to a motocross race, getting air at one point every lap. ***. Now I gotta do the 30mile round trip again to the record store.
Anyone else heard of this. What's going on?