[78-L] Blue label Monkey Ward/Varsity Royale catalogue

[David Lennick]

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> At 02:03 PM 11/4/2009, you wrote:
>> Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>> Are they (the Royale/MW dubs) good performances & how is the 
>> sound quality since they are dubs?
>>
>> I'm thinking variable..there's a Royale issue (564) of the Kleiber 
>> "Iphigenie"
>> Overture that practically runs onto the label and is missing the 
>> final notes on
>> side one. "Badly mastered from original with noisy surfaces", it says on my
>> tape copy.
>>
>> dl
> 
> I've found Royale classical records to be less than spectacular in 
> both performance & sound quality. In other words, good but I've heard 
> better. What I wonder is which pressing plant pressed Royale as the 
> vinyl used is not great quality either...... 
> 
> __________________________

If you're talking about vinyl, do you mean Royale LPs? Man, those were awful! 
They were also ridiculously cheap, and my dad (raised in the Depression) knew a 
wholesaler, so he bought a lot of the things. The ones that were relabelled 
"Allegro Elite" were much quieter..bordering on styrene in the US, well pressed 
for a time by Sparton in Canada. At the same time, their 45s were very quiet.

dl