I own an otherwise flawless copy of the following LP:
Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street
Mercury MG-36070 (Black and Silver "Drummer" Label)
While the overall condition is quite nice the A side of the record has
what appears to be a grey haze (when viewed from an angle) that covers
all of the first track and two thirds of the second track, the rest has
a typical bright gloss. The hazed portion plays terribly with a lot of
background noise, when the haze ends the record instantly sounds
beautiful. What is this, what caused this and can it be cured? My guess
is that It cannot which is a shame. Luckily, I have another very clean
Japanese pressing to listen to. Has anyone else encountered this before
and if so what were your conclusions?
Thanks in advance and I hope everyone in the US had a restful holiday
weekend,
AA
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