Plenty of Hot Stamper Pressings to Choose From in the Range of $200
One of our good customers wrote to us a while ago (2021) and confessed:
“I never thought I would spend $200 for a record but I do hear the difference.”
We replied:
If that’s a favorite record of yours, you can now enjoy it for the rest of your life knowing you have a killer copy in your collection to play whenever you damn well please (assuming the kids and the wife are out of the house).
Based on what I am reading, the pressing we sent you is so good it’s practically priceless. But somebody had to put a price on it, and the price we landed on was two hundred bucks.
Outrageous
This is an outrageous amount of money for one record to some people. But not to someone who loves the album and will play it for the rest of his life. Once a month for 40 years comes to $4 a spin. To quote Pete Townshend, I call that a bargain.
Can you afford to replace every record in your collection with a $200 Hot Stamper pressing? Of course not. Almost nobody can. But that’s not really what’s at the heart of our service.
We are offering exceptional copies of your favorite albums. (And of course some records that are soon to become your favorite albums.)
These are records that are guaranteed to be better than any other pressing you can find at any price.
Stop Running Around
Here’s an important benefit that often goes unmentioned.
We eliminate the need to keep chasing after more and more versions of the same music.
If the album is remastered on Heavy Vinyl every two or three years by whatever company hasn’t licensed it yet, who cares?
There is not a shred of evidence to back up the contention that any of these labels will ever be able to produce a record that sounds better than the pressing you already have. Over and over again these companies fail to produce records that live us to their promises, and they sure haven’t shown any recent signs of improvement if what we played in 2024 is anything to go by.
Buying Hot Stampers
When it comes to Hot Stampers, buy as few or as many as you like. Pay only for records you think are reasonably priced based on how important the music is to you.
Whatever you pay for our record, know that its resale value is essentially nil. Nothing is special about the records we offer other than their superior fidelity.
When you receive a record from us, we ask only that you play it and, in this case, find two hundred dollars worth of sound and music or send it back. You have plenty of time to do that, 30 days.
If lots of customers returned our records, our business would struggle to survive. But we’re doing just fine at the moment, saints be praised.
Further Reading
There are plenty of vinyl enthusiasts with large record collections. Of course we can all guess what goes on with such a collection: most of it never gets played.
Records with amazing sound tend to get played over and over – at least, mine do. I constantly expect one of them to wear out its welcome, but instead I keep discovering new aspects of the recording. As a result of this, not long ago I resolved that you only need about 40-60 records for a lifetime of enjoyment. That’s my number – others may make up their own.
So imagine if those collectors with 600 records instead used those same funds to acquire 60 or so hot stampers. Obviously this is quite doable… there is clearly a subset of record collectors for whom prior convictions get in the way, but the barrier isn’t budget.
Austin,
I don’t think I would be satisfied with 60 great sounding records. I have about ten times that many that I listen to regularly.
But your point is well taken, 40-60 really good records would be ten times as many as the typical audiophile might own, and would allow that person to really improve his playback quality if he wanted to put in the time and money.
Best, TP