The most of today's vinyl records in the world are made in
Czech Republic
Digital Media CZ (biggest vinyl record manufacturer in the world)
& they are really really good quality... they've made
new software, that
improves mechanical transcript, then they make colored ones (quality of audio is bit worse though cause of tricky technology), even original shapes of vinyl records all kinds. The quality of these vinyls is incredible... it always depends on quality of audio mastering in studio & that's often the problem in these days... some tracks are so badly mastered, that the final records is crap, the press manufacturer can't do much better than what they get from studio!
The problem these days is in audio mastering in studios...
not in press manufacture!
The new VINYL material by itself is much more advanced than the old one, but today there is too much producers & studio masters.... so always there be the bad ones too...
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If you use vinyl records.. they will die eventually, but it needs really big amount of plays before they die! If you have engraved promo vinyl, or so called 'whitelabels'... there is real decrease of quality caused by long use, pressed vinyls are much better in this... but it's all in terms of 'DJ like' use... in home use with care you can almost vanish that, if you don't scratch them bad time.. they will be able to reproduce you the music in best quality long long time. CDs are less playable than vinyls...