Lou Judson wrote:
Pardon this if it is OT - I am curious about this. I have only heard a few Dynagroove records, and rather than do laborius research, can someone describe what is going on with them? All I remember about them is that they had a raised ridge around the circumference to keep them from rubbing together on the grooves... What are the issues about the mastering and pressing? Offlist if I am the only one who wonders...
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Just so we're all on the same side of the disc here....there was DynaGroove, there was DynaFlex (aka taco shell pressings), and there was something called DynaRange that escapes me at the moment. (There was also DynaShore but she hadn't recorded for RCA for quite a while by that time.) DynaGroove was Vicspeak for overmodulated and distorted. The raised ridge and center was called "Gruve Gard" but most North American LPs began to have those in the mid 50s, except Decca.
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On Feb 12, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Jeffrey Kane wrote:
RCA was WONDERFUL until the Dynagroove era. I have found though that
the unlistenable Dynagroove stuff, if available on 4 track, sounds MUCH
better through that medium. I've bought precisely two dynagroove
records.
One was to see if it really sounded all that bad. The second was
because I
wasn't looking. :(