Secrets from the groove pt2

摘要

In the late 1970s something remarkable happened. After years of scorning customers who unreasonably wanted flat discs without pressed-in snap, crackle, pop and hiss, the major record labels started to licence their master tapes to third-party companies which did a far better job of disc mastering, electroplating and pressing.rnSo it was that Mobile Fidelity offered well-pressed versions of Al Stewart's Year Of The Cat, George Benson's Breezin' and John Klemmer's Touch. The re-cut masters had been electroplated on site at JVC's cutting centre in Hollywood, and shipped to JVC's factory at Yamato in Japan. The pressings were then shipped back to the USA and Europe for sale at three times the cost of the poorly-pressed originals.