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Reviews and Commentaries for Aja
One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stampers he purchased recently:
Hey Tom,
I got the shipment today and it was meticulously packed. It all got here in perfect shape.
I could not resist doing a little side-by-side comparison of Aja tonight, as I have several copies. When I realized that different pressings sounded different (before I found your site) I began accumulating multiple copies, but I find it quite difficult to get loads of mint minus copies of anything. [It’s not as easy as it used to be, that’s for sure.]
Anyway, I was totally blown away. The Hot Stamper copy went WAY beyond what I expected in terms of the sonic shortcomings I could hear on the other pressings. Just… amazing… music.
The good news is my record collection should shrink by at least 75% in size as I sell off all the old multiple copies!
Adrian B.
Adrian,
You TOTALLY get it.
You do your own shootouts.
You recognize how much better our pressing sounds than the ones you own. (This is not a foregone conclusion. You could have told us that you liked one of your copies better, and we would have refunded your money. We can be right a lot, but we can’t be right all the time and we don’t claim to be.)
And you then got rid of the stuff that is not worth keeping because it’s not worth playing.
You are our Customer of the Month! (We don’t really have such a thing but if we did, you would easily have earned the honor.)
Thanks for your letter,
TP