'DYNAFLEX'...Why?

What was the reasoning behind this concept? How did the idea of flexibility seem attractive?
I understand the fragile nature of old 78s but surely you would have to try pretty hard to break any LP after about 1960....
Was this just a ploy on behalf of RCA to save on vinyl costs?

 

They did it to save money!!!

Note how after about 1970 or so, Columbia Masterworks records got very thin?? Many record companys lightened up their vinyl to save money.

The only plus of the RCA Dynaflex records, was that they were 100% virgin vinyl, as opposed to most records of the time, that used recycled vinyl.

 

Yep, among other things.

Dynaflex records ARE what that ad suggests but that doesn't mean mastering, cutting or plating was any great shakes. RCA as a company, historically, rode very strange technologies both good and bad. Ah, those CAV discs!

Dynaflex records suffered on below average equipment. Imgaine tracking the outer edge when your platter is 7" wide and your pickup weighs over 6 grams.

 

Dynawarp! It was all Nixon's Fault. "The RCA record you are holding is thinner than any other record you have owned, unless you are collecting Beatles Christmas Records."

 

Dynaflex was just an RCA version of the "sound sheets" dad used to get in his National Geographic magazines. It's funny since I remember my grandmother reading us that entire dynaflex blurb from the innersleeve when she played Tomita's first album for us.

I have a couple of Fantasy pressings from early 70s that were pressed by RCA. Glaringly obvious--I can bend one of them into a U-shape! But actually, I have far worse examples of "new" vinyl that sound a lot worse than some of the dynaflex I have here.

RCA...the company that also brought you DynagrooVe!

 

Sorry , wasn't aware it had been covered..I will check out the archive.
thanx

 

Another money-saving trick RCA had:

Leave the printing "Dynaflex" on the bottom of labels attached to records that aren't Dynaflex.

 

What a fantastic resource this site is..I've done the search and am now reading all the 'living stereo' stuff. Great stuff!

 

C'mon, Steve. You know that's a technical term...

 

Naaa! Leave it! It won't get much use. Gotta have some fun. It can be just like an Easter egg!

I have a couple of albums pressed on Dynaflex, and they really don't sound bad at all!

 

Tough taskmeister, ain'tcha?

Sorry, my friend, but you gotta say SH E E T sometimes, when it's well......sheeeeeeeeeeety!

It all comes down to a Gentleman's (and Ladies ) Agreement...no rules will work, except those we impose upon ourselves.

 

Maybe -=Rudy=- put in an exception in the programming to allow you and you only to say whatever you want!

 

Guess we won't have any choice quotes from "The Sopranos" anytime soon...


PS: Thanks guys for another wonderful HiJackIngTM....j/k....

 

...or DEADWOOD!

 

...one of my John Denver Dynaflex warped so bad it wouldn't track! I bought another copy, the label still said Dynaflex but the vinyl was quite heavy...guess they had extra labels...

 

Here Lies Steve Hoffman.
There was no form of censorship
he couldn't circumvent.
R.I. *******P.

I always thought the Dynaflex sounded cruddy, no matter how they felt. :thumbsdn:

 

All in jest, Steve.

 

Them Gorts have a ******** of power!