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--- On Mon, 11/30/09, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pressing Haze: Help Needed
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 5:06 PM
> Any idea why Mercury used styrene
> instead of vinyl?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Biel" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 6:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pressing Haze: Help Needed
>
>
> > Aaron Levinson wrote:
> >> Don-
> >>
> >> You are suggesting that one pass with a very worn
> stylus produced this kind of greying? That seems kind of
> hard to fathom
> >
> > Not if this is a styrene pressing rather than
> vinyl. I have seen microgroove styrene pressings
> absolutely shredded when played by a 78 stylus or a stylus
> with a sharp facet. You haven't told us if this
> pressing is vinyl or styrene.
> >> considering all
> >> the other anecdotal evidence that suggests that
> Mercury and Emarcy seem to exhibit this "record cancer" when
> almost no other labels do?
> >
> > Funny thing is that many early Mercury and Emarcy
> pressings are styrene when practically none others
> were. A few Harmony and many Gold/Silver Crest LPs are
> also styrene, and Decca was using a slightly different type
> of styrene in the late 50s. Most Columbia 45s were
> styrene. Back-cueing them by DJs can kill the
> first seconds of these.
> >
> >> I have seen many records that have been played by
> a worn stylus and are greying but none that I have ever
> seen, stop so abruptly as this record does.
> >>
> >> AA
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Since most microgroove records are vinyl, I would
> expect that this would be almost everybody's
> experience. But I have seen it happen.
> >
> > Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
> >
> >> Don Chichester wrote:
> >>> In a message dated 11/30/2009 5:12:06
> P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
> writes:
> >>>
> >>> Mike Gray wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Played with a *very* worn stylus that's
> damaged the groove -
> >>>> Groove wear is a potential culprit Mike
> but in this case it can be conclusively ruled out.
> This haze stops dead two thirds of the way through
> track 2 only on the first side. The worn stylus theory
> is simply not an option with a condition like this. I
> think it is far more likely to be some kind of mold,
> storage and/or pressing defect.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> AA
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> My experience is that this exactly the cause
> of the haze. The former owner played the record
> two-thirds of the way through track two--then noticed
> the wear and lifted the stylus at that point.
> >>> Don Chichester
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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