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Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of The Beatles Available Now We’ve heard some excellent German pressings before, but this time [circa 2011] nothing could match up to our best Brit copies. What the best British copies have is more of the Tubey Magic that can typically be heard on early pressings, due no doubt […]

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More of the Music of Sir Paul McCartney INCREDIBLE Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound or close to it brings McCartney’s Apple debut to life on this vintage pressing – fairly quiet vinyl too It’s practically impossible to find copies of this album that sound any good, let alone this good The musicality, energy and presence are […]

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Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Miss Peggy Lee Available Now UPDATE 2026 It’s highly unlikely we would still agree with all the good things we had to say back in 2003 about Latin ala Lee! on Heavy Vinyl, but here it is anyway. Plenty of records that sounded good to me back in the […]

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Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Mozart Available Now CS 6109 is a handy record for VTA adjustment. Listen for fullness and solidity, especially in the piano, although a rich, full sounding clarinet is a joy here as well.  Some of the copies we played in our shootout lacked the weight and solidity to […]

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Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of The Beatles Available Now One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stamper pressings of Abbey Road and ELP’s debut he purchased a while back. Hey Tom,  Yesterday, I attended an audio event in Verona, NJ, where I had purchased my stereo. I spent […]

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