new Allison Krause & Robert Plant Pressing seems noisy

No, millercarbon is correct, they will all be like this.

 

How do you know that?

I can't speak to this particular record yet, I will have it soon, , but I've purchased at least 300 new records in the past year or so and except for a few have had very little or no noise. I do clean them before I play them so I don't know what they are like before they are cleaned, but I view cleaning all records as an essential part of the process so it really doesn't matter to me what they are like before they are cleaned. 

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.

Buying 300 other records says nothing about this one.

do you even take the time to think about what others have posted or just go spouting off with your profound wisdom? I opened with "I can’t speak to this particular record" and you come back paraphrasing what I just said as if it is a revelation.

That aside, the vast majority of records I’ve purchased have been excellent pressings. Anyone reading your post could easily conclude all current pressings are crap. My experience is exactly the opposite.

@herman , The record is noisy because of the conditions it was subject to during it's manfacture. All the records pressin that run were subject to the exact same conditions. If the stamper was bad, all the records that come off that stamper (1000) will be just as noisy. If you wait until another run is made you might get a quiet one.

@millercarbon , I politely disagree. I returned a lot more records in the old days than I do now as a percentage. I have had a few really bad ones recently. In the old days I have to say that european classical records were uniformly wonderful. But, popular music when they pressed hundreds of thousands of copies were hit or miss. I must have returned one in five records back then. 

@herman , The record is noisy because of the conditions it was subject to during it’s manfacture. All the records pressin that run were subject to the exact same conditions. If the stamper was bad, all the records that come off that stamper (1000) will be just as noisy. If you wait until another run is made you might get a quiet one.

 

that is a bit different than your original post where you said "they would all be like this." If it is the stamper then of course yes, but you did not say that, you said "all" and "the noise is in the stampers" as if all stampers are noisy. I hate to be the grammar police and don’t want to get in a pissing contest, but all I can go on is what you state.

and I disagree that it is definitelvly in the stamper. I bought a record from Acoustic Sounds recently that had a crackling noise throughout. They replaced it and the second record is just fine. While it is possible I got pressings from different stampers, I doubt it since it came from the same seller. Also, they replaced it with no hassle, but told me they had no other complaints or returns of this title. If others got the same noisy record I did I can’t imagine there would not have been more returns.

All that said, I wholeheartedly agree with your last statement about the condition of most current pressings. I have been overwhelmingly pleased with them.

thanks for the feedback