[78-L] Disc Rot in Pearl Music from the New York Stage

[Jeff Sultanof]

I've been on vacation and am only now catching up on e-mail.

Back in the late 90s as I recall, there was a short article in a British
publication about Pearl's complete Caruso box having certain discs spread
with rot (these were pressed by PDO). I don't remember now why this occured
(this was not the same as laser disc rot, which was caused by the glue
binding the two sides of the disc together). Pearl isolated the problem to
the Caruso, the four Broadway boxes and a few other titles, and asked
purchasers to send these discs to them for replacements.

The ones that were pressed later do not have this problem.

I should check my volume 4 set as well, but am still in Flordia.

Jeff Sultanof

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Sammy Jones <sjones69 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Volumes 1 through 3 seem to be okay, but I bought those MUCH later than I
> did Volume 4 (crazy, I know).  As best as I can tell I got Volume 4 in
> about
> 1997, and Volumes 1 through 3 around 2003 or 2004.  I wonder if they are
> from different press runs.
>
> Do Pearls have a well known problem with this?  Should I clone the ones
> that
> are still okay?
>
> The disc rot in Volume 4 is red or dark orange and is present on the
> outside
> edge, affecting only the last few tracks of each CD.
>
> Sammy Jones
>
> > I can't help you because I have had these sets on my wish list for
> > years
> > but haven't gotten around to getting them.  It's nice to know that at
> > least Vol 4 is on the list for self destruction.  How are the other
> > three volumes doing?  I've got about a half dozen Pearl's I'm watching
> > that still play.  I ought to do clones anyway.
> >
> > Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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