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The biggest vinyl pressing plant in Europe (13.7 million pressed last year):

http://thequietus.com/articles/17670-gz ... -store-day

It's never been shut down since 1951, they don't do CD's.

Also worth a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuCdsyCWmt8

A needle in the vinyl groove under an electron microscope.

cyrano wrote:The biggest vinyl pressing plant in Europe (13.7 million pressed last year):

http://thequietus.com/articles/17670-gz ... -store-day

It's never been shut down since 1951, they don't do CD's.

I read there:

As well as a decades-long business in CD and DVD manufacturing (known in the industry as "replication"), and more recent branded packaging contracts with BlackBerry and Ikea, this pressing plant is working to come out - and stay - on top in what's become a much-debated resurgence in vinyl sales.

Gale

waxcylinder wrote:I'm betting that a lot of those "bargain label reissue from late 70's / early 80s" were from masters that had passed the 100,000th pressing mark that Cyrano refers to.

Yes indeed, but there are other "mysterious" reasons as to why, generally speaking, end of LP era reissues sound poor (and hence CD's clearly sounded "better" than those reissues) .

Decca bargain classical reissues (SPA, Eclipse...) have always to my mind sounded much better than EMI bargain classical reissues (Cfp, Eminence...) despite both companies made superb recordings. Yet even then there are exceptions to that "rule" from both companies.

The £300 classical LP "all-tube" reissues repressed from original master tapes are by the way almost always of material where the original LP issue is worth much more than £300. So in a sense people buying them are saving money on the original by getting what is (theoretically) the best possible reissue.


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote: ... getting what is (theoretically) the best possible reissue.

With the right cart/stylus, the right arm and the right deck all correctly set up and installed

Peter

waxcylinder wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote: ... getting what is (theoretically) the best possible reissue.

With the right cart/stylus, the right arm and the right deck all correctly set up and installed

But if you're gonna spend three ton green ones on a single LP - then you probably spend thousands on the kit (I would hope so) ...

Peter

Gale Andrews wrote:

cyrano wrote:The biggest vinyl pressing plant in Europe (13.7 million pressed last year):

http://thequietus.com/articles/17670-gz ... -store-day

It's never been shut down since 1951, they don't do CD's.

I read there:

As well as a decades-long business in CD and DVD manufacturing (known in the industry as "replication"), and more recent branded packaging contracts with BlackBerry and Ikea, this pressing plant is working to come out - and stay - on top in what's become a much-debated resurgence in vinyl sales.

Gale

GZL (Gramofonove Zavody Loděnice) doesn't do CD's at that location or under that name. But it's owner GZM (Gramofonove Zavody Media or GZ Media) does a lot of things, amongst which making CD's, DVD's, cardboard boxes, Mangalica salami and a few other things I forgot.

There was a better article about GZL but I can't seem to find it. Maybe I've read it on dead trees?

Hi Gale and all - thanks for the info. I've been very busy lately, so I've been unable to troubleshoot the issue with your suggestions. Will get to in soon hopefully.

As to the volume issue, I will look into that too. I don't mind the lower volume in general, but one of my reasons for digitizing LPs is I want to get back into DJing and thought of making mixes for mixcloud. So, I'd like the volume to be fairly uniform in the mix from digital downloads to my vinyl digitized tracks. I suppose I could do a vinyl-only live mix pausing between tracks (like the old mix tapes) and make the mix in audacity, but then of course, I'd need that pause button to be fixed!

As to my gear - I have Rega RP6 with a Dynavector 10x5 cart. Very pleased with the sound. I use a Bellari VP530 phono stage with a USB output. I bought an Audioquest USB cable to connect to my Mac to digitize in audacity.

So, as mentioned it worked once pausing to record and then releasing the pause. Then I tried a few days later and the pause function crashed audacity. I will look into the fixes when I have more time.

Thanks for the input and I'll let you know if the fixes suggested work, Gale.

Tom