Shipped with usps media mail.
What is sterling tj vinyl pressing.
And as luck would have it its the rl mastered lp.
One factor many serious record collectors fixate on is the quality of the stampers the grooved metal plates used to press a lump of hot vinyl into a record album.
Discogs is a user generated database with more than 12 million copies of music listed.
Masterdisk is also very good their main competitor and they re practically neighbors.
Please see all photos jacket and inner sleeve look nice.
A machine stamped triangle with the initials iam indicates that the record was pressed at the scranton pennsylvania plant.
Do your homework and read up in the thread that anselm ashlee5 provided.
But it all comes down to what they have to work with of course.
Opened 1946 began phasing out pressing vinyl in favor of transferring operations to the capitol records pressing plant winchester in 1969 and stopped vinyl pressing 1973.
Pressing plant for capitol records in scranton pennsylvania.
Unsure if this lp has been discussed before but yesterday i received got back my original led zeppelin ii lp from my brother.
It s also a marketplace where users can buy and sell records.
Like any metal die these molds.
Once you start to get familiar with things it will open a whole new world for you.
I remember buying it on the very day of its release in fall 1969.
If you are serious about your vinyl and obtaining the best possible pressing it is essential to know what to look for.
There is no such thing as a sterling pressing and no it does not make anything more valuable.
Defunct us manufacturer and pressing plant which was located in olyphant pa.
All else being equal the sterling cut is usually the best.
So repressings can still be from the year of the album s release.
Not a record label.
Consisting of numbers and or letters the code may indicate recording dates specific takes and even the system of recording.
Such a record may be significantly more.
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A re pressing may or may not be as collectable but there s still a good chance that it will have similar mastering and sound as an initial pressing.
Vinyl record price guide.
Keep in mind that back when records were pretty much the only way to get music albums were pressed by the millions regularly.
For instance a matrix number can identify a first pressing of an lp.
A matrix or stamper number is a code etched inside the end groove area found on each side of a vinyl lp.
Now ive been used to the muddy echo laden 2nd.