- Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:10 pm
#12235
I have two turntables. One with a needle that's new and the other one that is about two years old. Both skipped on the same track on FW. The scratches are really deep in the LP, on both sides. I've played hundreds of other LPs on my turntables, most "new", some not so new, and have had very little problems, save for some pops here and there. There's also a thick deep scratch at the end of my copy of HCTD. I was giving it a spin last night and it kept skipping towards the end of the track. Picked it up, looked at it and lo and behold, a small but thick scratch in the vinyl. Deep enough where you can feel it. Contacted Mondo about the problem but haven't heard back from them yet.
A lot of the "new" LPs that I've encountered are never really "new", unless it's pressed on virgin vinyl, like a MOFI record. It boils down to pressing plants and the conditions of them. I would say about a little more than half of the "new" records (factory sealed, not re-shrunk) that I've bought have had some sort of physical issue. Some of the LPs would be warped, some with sleeve and surface marks everywhere, and some of them would have light scratches that create a massive amount of pops., etc.. Nothing really deep like the ones on FW or HCTD. For the most part I've had enormous luck with DW, WW and LITA.
