I collect many living stereo RCA recording's, where ever I can locate them. Much of their popular recordings are much better when it comes to such things as pops, clicks and ticks. I have found many RCAs even when in excellent to mint condition that sounded just horrible in their earlier shaded dog state and yet many white dog's{later pressings} sounding cleaner and more quiet even before a cleaning.
Living Stereo sound bad?
Sorta a sidebar to another of my threads but, I recently bought a bunch of original Living Stereo label LPs. The guy I bought 'em from had them stacked like flap jacks. When I cleaned the records, the pops and ticks were relatively far and few between but, I would've expected the sound quality to be much better. Does the reputation of these records apply to ALL the Living Stereo records or just a few? Could the way they were stacked have caused any damage? Could they have been played on a junky table that caused groove damage? Just curious.