Post #318386 by I, Zombie on Fri, Jul 13, 2007 6:37 AM

On 2007-07-13 05:09, OnyaBirri wrote:

And yes, Capitol mono LPs right up through mid to late 60s are among the very best sounding and pressed vinyl you'll ever come across. What a sound.

Agreed! The really nice High-Fidelity (mono) recordings are all about extreme depth of range. In some ways it's analogous to stereo, but instead of left and right, it's front and back. The Capitol ones are great. You can hear way down into the mix. Just really nice.

However, I've been running into trouble with early 60s Capitol Stereo LPs. Often, I find distortion on those records, usually coming through one channel. The vinyl will look shiny and almost new, but I'll get weird distortion. It's a specific problem with some Capitol stereo LPs from about 1961-63 or somewhere in there. Doesn't happen every time, but enough times that I've noticed it. Onya, is there any discussion of that in vinyl circles that you know of?

~glen