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Quality Record Pressings was born out of parent company Acoustic Sounds, Inc. Kassem started Acoustic Sounds in 1986 as a mail-order business specializing in the sale of audiophile vinyl LPs, SACDs, DVD-Audios, high-quality CDs and high-end stereo equipment.
It is essentially a hydraulic press fitted with thin nickel stampers which are negative impressions of a master disc. [1] Labels and a pre-heated vinyl patty (or biscuit) are placed in a heated mold cavity. Two stampers are used, one for each of side of the disc. The record press closes under a pressure of about 150 tons. [2]
New Orleans Record Press. In 1999, Dan Lauricella moved from Massachusetts to New Orleans. After creating his own record label, he co-founded the city's first vinyl record pressing facility, ...
Acetates are usually made by dubbing from a master recording in another medium, such as magnetic tape.In the vinyl record manufacturing process, a lacquer master disc is cut and electroforming is used to make negative metal molds from it; certain molds are converted into stampers, can be used to press thousands of vinyl copies of the master.
When you think of manufacturing in the US, vinyl records probably isn't the first thing that springs to mind, but the industry has been chugging along as best it can. For decades, pressing plants ...
Hand Drawn Pressing uses the WarmTone press engineered by Canada's Viryl Technologies. [6] Before the introduction of the WarmTone press, all current record pressing facilities used machines exclusively resurfaced from the twentieth century. [7] The resurfaced machines press an average of two records per minute.
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A sign welcomes visitors to the offices of Acoustic Sounds in Salina, Kansas The front entrance to the offices of Acoustic Sounds. Acoustic Sounds, Inc. is a mail-order business specializing in the sale of audiophile vinyl LPs, Direct Stream Digital/PCM downloads (SuperHiRez.com), SACDs, Reel-To-Reel album reissues (Analogue Productions Ultra Tape), DVD-Audios, high-quality CDs and high-end ...