[hairofthedawg]

I bought two of these awhile back and both arrived warped.  Is that part of the testing these records perform or was I just extremely unlucky in receiving two warped discs?

cheers,

Dick

[mgalusha]

The copy I received was quite flat. Perhaps yours were subjected to the rear of a hot truck during shipping.

Was the supplier willing to replace them? A warped test record can't be very accurate.

[hairofthedawg]

That's what I thought...not the company I purchased from's problem, they just spent several months in transit during a couple of moves I made.  Thanks for the reply...guess I'll buy another!

cheers,

Dick

[nathanm]

I wonder if warped vinyl could be heated to a certain controlled temperature and then pressed back into a flat shape?  I got one that has a little hump at the edge and for the first song the needle skips, but the rest is fine.  You'd think if they can get warped once they could get 'unwarped'.

[skchow]

http://home.attbi.com/~analyst18/unwarp.htm">Greg Weaver's technique for unwarping records

[theborg]

That might a nice link for the vinyl care and setup section http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/links.php?c=6

[JoshK]

Yeah I'll have to organize all the good links for vinyl care and setup and put them in there.   I had planned to do some sort of organization, didn't know that was there.

[theborg]

Heh, it's only been there for about five minutes

Anyone can add links, I'm hoping people will add good ones by themselves.

[nathanm]

http://home.attbi.com/~analyst18/unwarp.htm">Greg Weaver's technique for unwarping records

Whoah - that is a spooky coincidence!  Guess which record I was talking about that has that hump in it?  Steely Dan - Katy Lied.  I kid you not! (well, not a MoFi copy though)  Interesting technique, I may have to try it.