RPM Record Pressing

Through my job as a librarian, I work with maintaining a large record collection, and growing up in the same city as RPM is located, I'm always struck with a sense of pride whenever their records pop up.

We consistently review our records when they come in, and the sound quality is always superb from this plant. They can easily compete with the bigger players on the market. No complaints from me in that department.

This is a newer plant, so I want to cut them some slack, but I can't say I've been all that impressed with them based on a recent experience. I went through three copies of a recent album to try to get one that didn't have some sort of problem such as dishing, loud pops, or noisy crackles during quiet parts of a song. Perhaps they are using too much regrind or need to clean up their plating operation. Whatever it is, I will probably avoid LPs pressed here going forward.