After reading Michael Fremers raving review on the Mofi reissue of Roy Orbison's "Greatest Hits" double 180g LP I figured what the heck I'll get it.

http://www.musicangle.com/album.php?id=706

Received the 180g Mobile Fidelity pressing last week all sides but album 1 side 2 had a terrible distortion in the left channel.
So OK that happens, I get an RA # they ship me another of course I had to ship back on my dime at $8.50 there goes the 10% off I got.
I asked them to test the next album before they shipped the replacement.

Received the replacement yesterday and the album had been opened and it was numbered nearly 1000 out from from the first one.
I thought then this should be good after all they supposedly tested the album and it was well away from the low numbered pressing I received first.

Put it on the platter last night almost immediately I could hear the exact same distortion in the left channel not exactly groove noise but more like the amp or a tape head was having a problem during the cutting process. IDK

Note: all my other new and old records play perfect so its not a cart or alignment issue it can not be repeated on any other record I have.

So its going back, again on my dime another $8.50 plus I loose the first shipping of $7.79 to me they will only issue a store credit for the album but not refund the initial shipping.
I loose $24.79 for a 35.99 album (with discount)
7.79 first shipping
8.50 for the return of the first album
8.50 for the second return.

I have a lot of Mofi albums old and new and this will be the first time I have ever bought that was a bad pressing from Mobile Fidelity.

The reason I am posting this is I want to see if anyone else here has purchased the new Mofi 180G pressing of the "Roy Orbison Greatest Hits" and if they had the same problem with theirs.
Also
If you have the New Mofi reissue please also indicate the serial number on the album cover
My first one I think was 350 range (cant remember the exact number) the replacement is numbered 1500.

My copy of this album plays very nicely on all sides.

I haven't had this experience with MoFi but I have had many new pressings (most 180g) that were bad pressings. I'm getting very discouraged by it, actually. It ranges from audible distortion in some to what amounts to a dirty-vinyl sound that won't come clean. I've had three of four bad pressings in a year, and I really don't buy all that much new vinyl.

I starting to think their are subtleties to pressing vinyl that are being lost on some of the companies who are learning how to press records for the first time as vinyl catches on again. This was actually mentioned in an article I read recently in one of the audio mags about one of the places that presses records, out of Brooklyn (they prided themselves on not having this problem)...it's kind of a lost art, and it takes a lot of no-how to get a clean pressing.

My copy of this album plays very nicely on all sides.

I am just curious what was the issue number on the back?

There was an article posted here recently talking about the people in the UK who bought EMI's pressing facilities. They've kept a couple of octogenarian engineers around to teach the new guys how to make things work right.

I am just curious what was the issue number on the back?

I'll check when I get home tonight and let ya know.

Mine sucked. Didn't bother to exchange it figuring they were all the same. Been scavenging $1 R.O. OP's since in hopes of NM restorations.

Ok, mine is number 1527.

I had this situation with the 180G Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, exchanged a copy with a scratchy sounding side and received an identically sounding replacement. :no:

Ok, mine is number 1527.

I had this situation with the 180G Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, exchanged a copy with a scratchy sounding side and received an identically sounding replacement. :no:

Thanks my replacement one is 1500

Picked up a #164 just before Xmas. Still sealed,very curious as to what's going on in there. Oh, and the cover was dinged on the lower center, like it was a record punch. This was purchased at a shop, the owner bitched about the cover problem to Mo-Fi, they sent him some spare #-ed covers, of which I received one. I'm not sure how that really helps me, as the number was 2500 something.................

OK Guys when I make a mistake I will own up to it.
And that I did!
I got home and tried a different cart that I have mounted on another headshell.
Ugh guess what? the noise was not there!
My azimuth was off ever so slightly on the other headshell I tweaked it a just bit and now it plays the Roy Orbison perfectly in fact its brilliant
not me :withstpd: but it is.

I don't know why I never had this problem with any of my other records they all play perfectly and sound great maybe this one just revealed that the azimuth was off. :dunno:

So I get a good :whip: