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The Last Record Pressing Plant In The UK SavedThe former EMI record pressing plant is now owned by a company called The Vinyl Factory.Established in 2001 The Vinyl Factory Group bought the old EMI manufacturing complex in Hayes which was being sold and the plant was scheduled to close.The manufacturing plant had been set up by EMI in the 1970's after moving from it's old plant,also in Hayes.The plant still presses 10,000 records a week.Some interesting points about the plant include the fact tha …

New Record Pressing Plants To Open Across The WorldNorth America's second biggest record processing plant is soon to open in Burlington,Canada.It is owned by the President of major music distributor Isotope Music,Gerry McGhee.In Phase 1 of production the plant can do  4.5 million records a year.In Phase 2,once additional presses are added the plant should have thecapacity of up to 11 million  records a year which will make it the second largest plant in North America.Their delivery tim …

The Move To Make Hi-Res Audio MainstreamSony created Hi-Res audio as they have created many technologies.....but in this case they decided to pass it on to the Japanese Audio Society to set it up as a standard for the audio industry.We presented recently Sony's quest for Hi-Res audio .....guess what.....it is gathering momentum.The Consumer Electronics Industry and the record companies see High Resolution Digital Audio as an opportunity to deliver better sound quality to music listeners,and thus …

MQA - A True Revolution In Digital Audio PlaybackHaving written previously about the licensing and connection between MQA and Bluesound,we felt it was time to talk about MQA in more depth as it truly is a revolution in the reproduction of digital music.MQA stands for Master Quality Authentication and could potentially be the greatest innovation of the digital music era.And that is not said lightly.To recap,MQA is a technology that simultaneously improves sound quality whilst dramatically lowerin …

The Importance Of Music In Our LivesIt is hard to imagine your world without music.It plays such a vital place in entertaining and affecting our mood and it can provide an emotional attachment to special moments in our lives and hearing a particular song will bring back great memories.For pop music lovers,the early months of 2016 have not been good ones.It seemed we were still absorbing the news of David Bowie's death in January,when on April 21,we learned that Prince had passed away in his home …