This would leave me to believe that it is a stamper misalignment rather than an off center hole and all of them would be affected.
Off center pressed vinyl.
We operate in our new 143 000 square foot facility where we have on site capabilities for lacquer mastering electro plating printing and automated and manual record pressing.
With over 25 years in business and two floors of music off center records tries to provide the customer with a grand experience.
We are the largest record pressing operation in north america with capacity to manufacture over 60 000 records per day.
Although it s frustrating to get one it s important to remember why vinyl is used.
With rainbo it is not uncommon to get a slightly warped or off center pressing.
Johnny hartman live at sometime original 1977 japanese lp on trio.
Side 1 plays good and the other side is off center.
Modern pressings are a joke for the most part.
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I have tons of old used vinyl and i d say one in ten is off centered.
To give an example of how bad it has become here s a list of my recent purchases from this last saturday s record store day and their problems.
It could even be something such as the paper label extending over the spindle hole on the record that is preventing the record from rotating concentrically.
Most off centre issues that you come across are very minor in such a way that many vinyl enthusiasts would not bother carrying out this procedure.
Sounds like crap on side 2.
Listen to the whoosh.
One of the current pressings you see in stores is done by scorpio and pressed rainbo.
Over a half million new and quality used records common to super rare 1000s of cds 100s of cassettes shelves of books magazines dvds songbooks stickers pins patches concert tees hats and caps and various music memorabilia 50s present.
I can tell you that vintage vinyl from the 60s and 70s is rarely off center ime.
Johnny cash off center on one side.
The good news is that off center pressings are rare enough that most people even with really large collections don t have many if any off center pressed albums.
I have this exact same issue with a masterdisk 45 rpm pressing.
Watch the arm sway.
This video is meant to show an off centered vinyl pressing you can also hear the pitch shift in the sound of a piece of vinyl that is off center.
Social distortion warped and off center.
That album has been reissued and repressed a lot.
