![]() * Jackets for LPs are often very cheaply reproduced, and for anyone with the slightest knowledge about printing it's impossible that you use original or at least quality templates. To point out what the trouble is would make an extensive list but generally speaking: I have noticed that the major record companies use your services for reissues and that I can't figure out. Not only does it complicate things in the store but as an enthusiast and old school entrepreneur I find it remarkable that your pressing quality is so under par. The first few I never took that much notice of because we can all have a bad day and no production line of vinyl records is perfect but now I've had almost close to a hundred of your GZ stamped records in return. I want ask about your quality ambitions since I've over the last few years have had customers RETURNING vinyl records pressed by your company. This was posted on GZ Medias FB page as early as 2016 with no feedback or proper explanation from GZ. Their polylined sleeves were very nice and added an extra touch of class to the album. Would be nice if they began offering it as an option themselves. I initially wanted to use rice-paper MOFI style sleeves but to have them shipped in bulk to the plant would have cost an arm/leg & a few vital organs. But I ordered their generic (black) polylined inner sleeves, and every one of them was clean as a whistle. Something in the way they are either being manufactured or stored causes them to be very dirty, with a lot of paper dust and residue, and of course clean new records are being shoved into these sleeves. I will note that historically there’s been some sort of issue with their custom printed inner sleeves. At least I like how their records all sound in between tracks… As nice as their cutting room looks, I don’t think I’ve heard anything cut in-house that I’ve actually liked, and I’ve heard a LOT of GZ pressed vinyl… no offense to any involved, seems like they put a lot of effort into their masters. Now, getting the lacquers from Sterling plated here in the US and then shipped to the Czech Republic was an extra bit of logistic gymnastics, but didn’t complicate the overall process toooo much and the results were definitely worth it. I won’t name names, but you know who they are! ![]() Pelc trusted his "gut" and chose to keep them and continue pressing records.ĭid 2 pressing runs at GZ, would not hesitate to use them again! They were capable of pressing the records as I wanted, the physical quality of their pressings puts some of the so-called “world-class” or audiophile-grade pressing plants to shame. Rather than scrap the record presses, Mr. Pelc joined the company in the 1980s when vinyl was "dying". It was a busy week! I'd like to thank Tommy John underwear, without whose quick drying products, this would have been a messy trip (luggage missed connections three times!). Following these visits it was off to Munich High End. ![]() This tour took place last spring during a European trip that included the Making Vinyl event in Berlin, followed by visits to CH Precision, darTZeel and Hi-Fiction (Thales tone arms and turntables, EMT cartridges), the GZ and finally Optimal Media in Röbel, Germany. You have to see the place to believe it, so here's a factory tour! It's long, because there's so much to see, including the enormous pressing plant, the copper disc (DMM) production facility, the printing and box producing division and GZ's own vinyl pellet manufacturing facility located on-site. In 2015 GZ produced 65,000 records a day! Today they press even more. GZ Media, located in Lodenice, Czech Republic ("GZ" stands for Gramofonové Závody ), founded in 1951, is the world's largest vinyl record manufacturer.
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