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Originally Posted by pmdclassics
Manufactures of records in the 70's and 80's used cheap recycled vinyl and the result is fine particles in your pressing which causes pops and clicks. Just another example of trying to increase profits at the expense of the consumer.
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True, there were more problems in the late 70s and 80s. One that comes to mind is when Living Stereo became Dynagroove then Dynaflex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynagroove
Luckily, I worked part time in an audio / record store and would actively exchange when I got a bad pressing. I also had access to the German and Japanese pressings of much of the stuff I bought. I probably had less problems than most, other than the hassle of the original exchange.
The big problem I had on popular rock of that era is poor recordings with compressed dynamic range, strange soundstaging given that the entire band wasn't recorded in the same space at the same time, lousy bass, etc. And sure, this material can be remastered today using really silent vinyl, but it still isn't all that great. The better your playback system, the more you notice. Sad that such great music sounds so bad.
Many of the jazz labels were still pretty good, thinking of Concord and Blue Note.
However, late 60s is when we started seeing the specialty labels such as Sheffield, Chesky, Reference, etc., who did a great job from start to finish, and early MFSLs who did remasters did what they could with the original master tapes, but with great vinyl.