I am aware there is a pressing plant or two in operation for vinyl in Japan,but what,other than standard stuff like Blue Note reissues is currently being pressed there? All the new vinyl I buy is either US or European Roger ________________________________ From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Sun, October 31, 2010 6:19:35 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Panasonic discontinues Technics analog turntables I have heard some of the same things about wait times at pressing plants. This from people waiting in the queue to get records pressed. I've also been told it's similar in Europe and Japan right now. There is much new vinyl being released and the reissue market sees new reissues every month. Almost all of it is premium-priced and should be manufactured to a high quality level (some current pressing plants do much better than others, but most of the stuff coming out of the others is retail priced more like $10-15 a record as opposed to $25-30 out of the good plants). Anyway, I wouldn't consider myself a vinyl fanatic -- I still think a properly mastered CD will sound closer to the master source recording than any grooved disk -- but since so many CD's are so badly mastered, it's nice to see a niche market where care and craft trump cheap and fast. Keep in mind, though, as has been confirmed to me in numerous specific cases, most modern-issue (as oppose to reissue) LPs are mastered off a DIGITAL source (indeed most of the recordings are ALL DIGITAL from the mic preamp output to the mixed master), so it's a myth that the product is anything close to "all analog." -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "H D Goldman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Panasonic discontinues Technics analog turntables At this time, it has been reported that all equipment available to manufacture vinyl records in the US has been placed into service. The major pressing plants have a wait time for new orders greater than 3-4 months. Contrary to repeated claims, the market for vinyl records has steadily increased for over a decade & support playback equipment abound across the price spectrum. More setups at CES focus on turntables than digital playback. For a number of years an older fellow comes to our room with a travel case filled with old Decca, Mercury & other fine examples of superb pressings & the room overflows with listeners for as long as he's willing to stay. During disc changes, he briefly talks about the recording & everyone is enthralled. Lot's of fun. No one suggests stopping to listen to the superb digital setup that is also in the room. cheers, duane goldman On Oct 29, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Michael Biel wrote: > The article says that vinyl sales have collapsed. Huh?? We've been > hearing that vinyl is the only GROWTH portion of the music industry. > > Mike Biel [log in to unmask] H D Goldman Lagniappe Chemicals Ltd. PO Box 37066 St. Louis, MO 63141 USA v/f 314 205 1388 [log in to unmask]