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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Becky Roberts

Vinyl pressing plants on surging demand, keeping it local, and whether coloured vinyl really does sound worse

Pressing process.

A quickfire question for you: how many vinyl pressing plants does Australia have? 

If you’ve just answered “zero”, having soundly assumed that the Land Down Under might exclusively import records from elsewhere, as it does cars, then I’m afraid to say you are incorrect. But don’t worry, you aren’t alone: that was my hesitant guess too when asked by a vinyl-loving family member during a recent visit to see me (and probably more so some record stores) in Melbourne.

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