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More British Blues Rock Two amazing WB Green Label sides, both with INSANELY GOOD Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound from start to finish – The Faces are rockin’ their asses off on this copy Punchy, solid and rich through and through, with driving energy like nothing you’ve ever heard from the band There’s a […]

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More of the Music of Fleetwood Mac Here is an original UK import pressing with KILLER Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) grades or close to them on both sides – exceptionally quiet vinyl too Most of the time this album sounds like Fleetwood Mac is playing live in the studio, which they probably were, and […]

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Skeptical Thinking Is Key to Finding Better Sounding Records UPDATE 2026 This commentary was written circa 2006. The Hot Stamper world was very different in those days. A few dozen had been done starting in 2004, and probably not nearly as well as they should have been, truth be told. This was unexplored territory, a […]

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More of the Music of Carly Simon An early Elektra pressing that was doing practically everything right, with both sides earning INCREDIBLE Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) grades or close to them Impossibly quiet vinyl too – it’s the rare Butterfly Elektra pressing that can play quiet enough to earn even our Mint Minus Minus […]

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Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Beethoven Available Now By the early 2000s we had finally come to the conclusion that the RCA pressings of the Beethoven 7th offered the best combination of sound and performance we could find. By 2024 we had enough copies — seven in total — to do a shootout. […]

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