original pressings

  1. mtemur

    Warped Records

    I’m buying records since 1995. I have both old and newly pressed records. Almost all newly pressed records (lets say 2000 and later) are warped. Some of them are very lightly warped, not a big problem. On the other hand almost all old records are perfectly flat. I wonder how could they manage to...
  2. Ron Resnick

    Rock/Pop/Folk Original Pressings Versus Re-Issues

    We have had many discussions about the sound quality of original pressings versus re-issues. Most of these discussions focus on classical music. But what about rock/pop/folk music from the 1970s and 1980s? Do you think the original pressings of acts like Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Elton John...

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