Rick-An Ordinary Fool
Well-Known Member
UPDATE:
I ultimately changed my mind about the white vinyl and felt I should pay $60.00 for Universal's defects and emailed them yet again. 4 days later they responded that they will be sending me a 3rd white vinyl set. This email response was a little different in that they indicated they have communicated with their warehouse that every step is taken to secure my product to arrive damage free. We will see what happens.
Today I received my black vinyl from Amazon. The packaging is 1st first, the LP was well protected inside a vinyl cardboard mailer and that was placed inside a larger box and then large bubble wrap. Needless to say it was so well protected. I am attaching pics, not so much for our forum members but for Universal to take notice to see how correct packaging and mailing of vinyl should take place. On the 2 white vinyl sets from Universal, neither of them were put in a vinyl cardboard protector like Amazon. So I'm not surprised both jackets were bent/creased.
Amazon's black vinyl jacket is just lovely to hold, just like the one I saw at Barnes and Noble very nice. So I said this is good...until I opened it. LP #1 label is way off center in fact it had a center hole off center. It doesn't affect play but just looks like crap. The edges of the vinyl are very very sharp. It you notice the label it messes up the wording caused by the off center press hole "orchestra", oh well, I laughed and said I'm not surprised. Universal has some major issues with their factory. LP 2 label and edges are much better however if you look closely there is so much black plastic in the hole that it won't go on my turntable, I've tried to force it down and it just won't go down. I could probably scrap it but with the look of LP 1 off center why bother. It's going back.
I've cleaned LP 1 and listened and it actually sounds pretty good except for the loud pops (again not your normal pops but much louder) I will say this that to my ears on only 1 listen the black vinyl actually has a better sound. The highs and muddy sound I mentioned on the white vinyl LP1 I'm not hearing on this black vinyl. The black seems like it has better highs and the orchestra sounds much fuller with nice clarity and tone, something I wasn't getting on the white vinyl LP 1.
Unfortunately, I won't accept this so this black vinyl is going back for a replacement. My love for their music never diminishes but I expect to get a quality product for my money and this is not it.
I ultimately changed my mind about the white vinyl and felt I should pay $60.00 for Universal's defects and emailed them yet again. 4 days later they responded that they will be sending me a 3rd white vinyl set. This email response was a little different in that they indicated they have communicated with their warehouse that every step is taken to secure my product to arrive damage free. We will see what happens.
Today I received my black vinyl from Amazon. The packaging is 1st first, the LP was well protected inside a vinyl cardboard mailer and that was placed inside a larger box and then large bubble wrap. Needless to say it was so well protected. I am attaching pics, not so much for our forum members but for Universal to take notice to see how correct packaging and mailing of vinyl should take place. On the 2 white vinyl sets from Universal, neither of them were put in a vinyl cardboard protector like Amazon. So I'm not surprised both jackets were bent/creased.
Amazon's black vinyl jacket is just lovely to hold, just like the one I saw at Barnes and Noble very nice. So I said this is good...until I opened it. LP #1 label is way off center in fact it had a center hole off center. It doesn't affect play but just looks like crap. The edges of the vinyl are very very sharp. It you notice the label it messes up the wording caused by the off center press hole "orchestra", oh well, I laughed and said I'm not surprised. Universal has some major issues with their factory. LP 2 label and edges are much better however if you look closely there is so much black plastic in the hole that it won't go on my turntable, I've tried to force it down and it just won't go down. I could probably scrap it but with the look of LP 1 off center why bother. It's going back.
I've cleaned LP 1 and listened and it actually sounds pretty good except for the loud pops (again not your normal pops but much louder) I will say this that to my ears on only 1 listen the black vinyl actually has a better sound. The highs and muddy sound I mentioned on the white vinyl LP1 I'm not hearing on this black vinyl. The black seems like it has better highs and the orchestra sounds much fuller with nice clarity and tone, something I wasn't getting on the white vinyl LP 1.
Unfortunately, I won't accept this so this black vinyl is going back for a replacement. My love for their music never diminishes but I expect to get a quality product for my money and this is not it.