Blast! I opened my "sealed" original issue Tusk, and it appears that it was previously played. There were fingerprints on the vinyl, and scratches on the lead-in groove. Someone resealed it in plastic and sold it as NOS. Stupid!
Well, needless to say, this proves nothing since the record has been played before. IKINW sounds just like all of the other vinyl copies, but again, if it's really just a used copy like it looks like it is, then that doesn't tell us anything.
It just drives me insane that my 2013 copy started out having those new effects and then lost them. It makes no sense to me how it happened, and it still makes me think that the same thing could have happened to the original releases, too.
Maybe a heavy tonearm and/or heavy skating forces can erase the extra sounds on the first play? Remember, I played my 2013 Tusk like 5 times with no sound degradation using lower tracking force and more anti-skating. Then the very first time I played the 2013 copy with a higher tracking force and less anti-skating with my new cartridge, the stereo sounds were gone... it didn't play them even once, even though I'd heard them the last time I played the record.
I need to buy another 2013 copy I guess. I'm not sure of exactly which variables to toy with, but I'd really like to see what happens to that track.
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