I don't recall ever having a problem with a warped Dynaflex record. Obviously they need to be stored properly and I always remove the shrink wrap. I would also suggest that if a warped record was found you could lay it flat placing something heavy on top to flatten it. I've used the technique both successfully and unsuccessfully in the past. I would suggest that it should be easier to flatten a warped Dynaflex record in that manor, than it would a thicker one.
The main benefit of Dynaflex is the lower noise of the pressings compared to others of the same time period. The Canadian tan label ABC/Dunhill LP's pressed by RCA sound fantastic. As do the Dynaflex RCA's both Canadian and US pressed. By comparison earlier black label ABC/Dunhill Canadian pressings by Polydor are noisier, the same goes for The US black label ABC and Dunhill pressings as well as the Command Quad releases. All those releases could have sounded better if they had been pressed on Dynaflex vinyl!
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They were cheap. That was their entire reason for existing and they lived down to that potential in my not low sample size experiences. Doc Severinsen's "Rhapsody for Now" early pressings beat the Dynaflexes about the face and ears. If you like'em, I'm happy for you, but their reputation was justly earned decades before this thread was started.
