What Exactly Are Hot Stamper Pressings?
A customer once wrote to tell us the following:
“I never thought I would spend $200 for a record, but I do hear the difference.”
Somewhat faint praise perhaps, but still, any praise is better than no praise, right?
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.
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 be your favorite albums.)
These are records that are guaranteed to be better than any other pressing you can find at any price.
Here’s an important benefit that often goes unmentioned. We eliminate the need to keep chasing after more and more copies.
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.
How to Buy 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, thank you very much.
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