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...and its quite good, although I must say, the Kevin Gray/Steve Hoffman reissue of Yes' Fragile (Analouge Productions)which I bought at the same time, is completely off the charts. Heart of the Sunrise is spectacular.

As Doug mentioned, Classics/RTI vinyl issue is well documented, Ive bought and returned Kralls LP 2X...as well as one Norah Jones..It cd for me with any Classics recordings unfortunately.

Ken

Doug, funny, but I never had a problem with my RCA "Dynagroove" vinyl, even though it is incredibly lightweight and flimsy!

Stew, the older Japanese pressing of the YES "FRAGILE" vinyl is quite good as well!

Hi Fatparrot,

DynaGROOVE records were lighter than Shaded Dogs, but they were still around 110-120g - reasonable. It was only during the later DynaFLEX era that RCA's records got truly flimsy, under 80g in many cases.

Regarding poor quality vinyl, to be fair I should have said "some" Dynagrooves. Like you I have Dynagrooves which are nicely silent. Others have general background noise that resists all cleaning and which I can only attribute to poor quality vinyl.

That cost-cutting, "they won't hear the difference" mind shift which drove lighter record weights, dynamic compression and frequency balancing for low-volume/low-fidelity playback presumably also drove a move to lower cost materials.

My copy of "Fragile" is also extremely good, and minty too. (Yes, Doug actually owns a rock record. Who knew?!) I wouldn't think of replacing it, but it's great there's a well mastered new release for those who need one.

Same experience. I had a Thread about it, too:

Records without ticks, pops ....