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My number one gripe, the absolute MUST-AVOID issue with vinyl, head and shoulders above all else is: off-centre holes. If that central hole in your record is off-centre by just a fraction of an inch, your music will wobble like jelly, constantly speeding up and slowing down as the record rotates in an elipse. Sometimes it can be unnoticeable at the start, but as the stylus gets closer to the middle the effect only increases.
SO, when puchasing a record in store, ask the assistant to demo the record for you, and watch the stylus: if it swings from side to side, you have an off-centre record and should ask for another copy. Test both sides: it is common for a record to be fine on one side but pressed off-centre on the other!
This is an incredibly common issue with mass-produced vinyl. ABout 80% of my collection has ths issue, which I resolve by boring a slightly bigger hole in the centre then manually adjusting the position of the record on the turntable. Interestingly, not a single one of my Beatles colection suffers with this, and they're all just standard issues bought in the 70s and 80s, none are audiophile issues. They all play just perfectly. Maybe EMI are a particularly good label for this.
But I personally stopped buying new vinyl decades ago as was so sick of this issue, and also because hi-res digital music and DACs have become so good. Although I still occasionally switch off my router and spin my old Beatles records!
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buy it on Japan market like Zenmarket.com or bidding on amazon. i bought all records on the internet. DM me for more info.