Advice to Help You Make More Audio Progress
You know why this guy has a wall full of records?
Because it’s easy to be a record collector — you just collect records.
To get your stereo and room to sound right, and recognize when they do sound right, or at least better than before, that is much, much harder. It literally takes a lifetime of effort.
I’ve been at it for forty-five fifty years. I still work at it and try to learn new things every day.
UPDATE 2022
Or at least I did. I retired in 2022 and left the running of the business to my dedicated, hard working and wonderfully talented staff.
Until you get your stereo, room and ears working, collecting good sounding records is all but impossible.
You will very likely waste a fortune on “collectible audiophile records.” The kind with collector value and not much else.
These are precisely the opposite of Hot Stamper pressings.
All the value of a Hot Stamper is tied up in its wonderful music and superior sound quality, which is where we think it should be.