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[fazer]

I love going into Barnes and Knoble and seeing LP records for sale but no CDs.  I was at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest back in October and the rave was how good the Beatles in Mono sounded.  Its amazing how much buzz there is over long playing records.  Long Live the LP!

 

[Brian Roth]

Here in my "new adopted home town", Chad Kassem has built a new pressing plant from the ground-up:

http://www.qualityrecordpressings.com/

I don't recall how many presses he has running, but I know the plant is running full-tilt with two shifts.  It's pretty amazing.  A recent Wall Street Journal had an article about the resurgence of vinyl, with a "slide show" of pix taken here in Salina:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biggest-music-comeback-of-2014-vinyl-records-1418323133


Bri

 

[fazer]

Impressive operation Brian. 

I saw "Tea For the Tillerman" is their 1st pressing.  I still love that record.    Although this may just be a short lived marketing campaign, its encouraging that a product comes back to life that I spent so much time listening to.    And the art work is one of the best parts of the LP.       

There is a story in "Life " by Keith Richards,  where he had a Bently with turntable in the dash to play 45's.  I don't think that will happen again. 

 

[pucho812]

There were many car companies with inboard dash record players.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/04/record-players-were-the-infotainment-systems-of-the-1950s-and-60s/index.htm

 

[Brian Roth]

Impressive operation Brian. 

I saw "Tea For the Tillerman" is their 1st pressing.  I still love that record.    Although this may just be a short lived marketing campaign, its encouraging that a product comes back to life that I spent so much time listening to.    And the art work is one of the best parts of the LP.       

It's an amazing pressing plant.  Chad put in a ton of money, doing stuff like modernizing the control systems on the presses using 21st century tech.  There's lots of videos, articles, etc. on the website that go into a lot of details.  One of the most fascinating area of the plant is where they electroplate/prep/etc. the metal parts (master, mother, stampers) destined for the presses.

Tea For the Tillerman came out about 3.5 years ago (after a year or two building up the factory), so they got off to great start.  And nowadays, the place is a real beehive of activity.

Bri