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

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 04:37 PM 11/4/2009, you wrote:
>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

Yes I did mean Royale LP's Those & the few Varsity LP's I own have 
quite a bit of surface noise in them like low quality or regrind 
vinyl was used to press them. Of course I have no idea which plant 
pressed any of them. Not that it really matters anyway......