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by 7MAT
Thu May 27, 2010 10:41 am
Forum: Our Cutters and their work
Topic: apollo changes on the website
Replies: 15
Views: 4893

LOL - you guys are far too quick to jump to conclusions. As I understand it Apollo has removed the prices by customer request. Most cutting houses want to keep the price they pay private. They certainly don't want the record companies or their customers knowing what they pay for masters when they ma...
by 7MAT
Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:09 am
Forum: Plating and Pressing
Topic: Specialist in Europe for plating process
Replies: 5
Views: 2081

Re: Specialist in Europe for plating process

Hi Yann

You not thinking of Peter Inker are you?

Peter who works for us, has visited most of the pressing houses in Europe in the last year and is very good at solving problems.

Matt
by 7MAT
Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:37 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Cutting on Non-Lacquer Discs
Replies: 101
Views: 46464

http://www.apollomasters.de/ (martin from ameise germany) Is now pointing to http://www.apollomasters.com I see a domain snatch :roll: Repost - Info first posted appox 5 posts above. Martin has been trying to sell his web domain since last year. In good faith Martin has pointed the url to the US Ap...
by 7MAT
Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:41 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Cutting on Non-Lacquer Discs
Replies: 101
Views: 46464

Flsoki Yes I agree a freshly cut acetate sounds best for up to 30 plays. Even up to 50 plays it still sounds better than most plastic cuts IMO. Apollo (including Transco) has always manufactured products for the professional cutting engineer, whilst they did make (at request) a reference-lite disc t...
by 7MAT
Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:30 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Cutting on Non-Lacquer Discs
Replies: 101
Views: 46464

due to the bad distribution politics of apollo we want to make this solution public domain. What bad distribution politics????? Apollo have trebled their business in Europe since making the change! No good going to www.apollomasters.de as it now points to Apollo's US website. Just been on the www.v...
by 7MAT
Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:56 am
Forum: Our Cutters and their work
Topic: Cutting stylus life
Replies: 26
Views: 10249

I think part of their problem may be that they're probably using people that work the AL Johnson casting operation (their parent company) to make lacquer disks as well Apollo have always manufactured the discs at AL Johnston, in fact Fred from Transco (before the sale) also purchased them from ALJ ...