The Skeptical Audiophile

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 […]

Hot Stamper Pressings of Revolver Available Now UPDATE 2026 This commentary must be fairly old because we haven’t bothered to play anything put out by Sundazed in longer than I can remember. The most serious fault of the typical Half-Speed mastered LP is not incorrect tonality or poor bass definition, although you will have a […]

Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Jimi Hendrix Available Now One of the worst things those dummies at Classic ever did. The mono mix is just plain awful. Their reissue of the mono mix is flat and dry with practically no Tubey Magic whatsoever. It positively screams “CHEAP REISSUE.” That two word description reminds me […]

More Soul, Blues, and R&B Seriously good Double Plus (A++) grades or close to them bring Hayes’s 2-LP soundtrack album to life on these vintage pressings It took us close to two years to find enough copies with good sound and decent vinyl to do a shootout, and these outstanding pressings are the result of […]

More Jazz Recordings Featuring the Piano Wynton Kelly’s hard-to-find second album, here with KILLER Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound or close to it on both sides of this vintage OJC pressing A superb pressing, with lovely richness and warmth, good space, separation between the instruments, and real immediacy throughout Kelly brings in jazz greats […]