New to the Blog? Start HereThe fundamental principle that is at the heart of understanding records is, like evolution, both a theory and a fact:
No two copies of a record sound the same.
That’s the undeniable reality of the analog LP, as well as the driving force that turned a hobby into a full-fledged livelihood for me and my staff of ten. (I have since retired and turned over the running of the business to my highly-trained, exceptionally-competent workers. They seem to like records almost as much as I still do.)
Many people find the ideas (and the prices!) on this website shocking. Frankly, they would be shocking to us too if we weren’t hearing such dramatic differences in the sound quality of the large numbers of copies we play every day.
Our staff devotes its time to finding, cleaning and playing as many pressings of an album as we can get our hands on. We take only the best sounding copies – we call them “Hot Stampers” – and make them available exclusively to those who appreciate (and can afford) the ultimate in analog sound.
What makes us unique in the world of record sellers is that we’re the only ones who base the price of their records on their sound quality. Although we’ve been finding Hot Stamper pressings for close to thirty years, it has only become the main focus of our business since the late-2000s.