Just a quick question concerning The Belles - Don't Pretend - Mirwood, has this got a common pressing fault?

A couple of years or so ago I bought a copy of this off ebay for a little over £20. Anyway it was visually graded as near mint and to be honest I agree with that. As I'm sure most of you would if you were to see it. Anyway I digress, for the 1st 40 seconds it has an annoying background noise/distortion going on, then bam, loud and clear!? I've tried cleaning it and makes no difference, just bugs me that's all, so I got to wondering if it was a pressing fault.

So again, has anyone else had a copy with this problem?

Sounds likes yours is cue-burned!

mine plays fine.

  On 12/03/2012 at 16:56, Tony Smith said:

Sounds likes yours is cue-burned!

40 Sec cue burn? S@@t DJ LOL

Is it a styrene record, only frooked one like that so never did it again.

I had something similarwhen trying out the last record that I bought. It was visually a mint copy supposed to be store stock but I cleaned it anyway and it was no different. Checked the tone arm to see if it was balanced an somehow it had got moved and I was trying to play at .75 gram. Dont know how the counter balance moves but it seems to from time to time. It played ok after that, luckily..

Must be a bad copy mines beautiful.

Mark

  On 13/03/2012 at 14:53, Mark Bicknell said:

Must be a bad copy mines beautiful.

Mark

Wanna swap?

Luck of the draw I suppose, still the other side plays ok, just have to do until I can get a better one.

the UK President issue is a decent option - cheaper, nicely cut and the vinyl is close to bomb-proof