Want to get better at audio and record collecting?
Try making more mistakes.
I was reading an article on the web recently when I came across an old joke Red Skelton used to tell:
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Now if you’re like me and you play, think and write (hopefully in that order) about records all day, everything sooner or later relates back to records, even a modestly amusing old joke such as the one above.
Making mistakes is fundamental to learning about records, especially if you, like us, believe that most of the received wisdom handed down to record lovers of all kinds is more likely to be wrong than right.
If you don’t believe that to be true, then it’s high time you really started making mistakes.
And the faster you make them, the more you will learn the truths (uncountable in number) about records.
And those truths will set you free.
Yes, We Admit It. We Sell the “Wrong” Pressings
Think about it: perhaps as many as a third of the Hot Stamper pressings on our website are what would commonly be understood to be the “wrong” pressings — or, worse, records that should not have any hope of sounding good at all.