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More of the Music of Neil Young Neil’s solo debut returns to the site for the first time in years, here with KILLER Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound or close to it throughout this early pressing Impossibly quiet vinyl for any early Neil Young album, especially this one – it’s rare to find his first release with […]

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Hot Stamper Pressing of the Music of Joni Mitchell Available Now This commentary was written in 2006 or thereabouts. Allow me to tell you about a Blue shootout I tried to do at a friend’s house. The system he owns has some nice equipment in it (the EAR 864, a $4200 tube preamp, for one) […]

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Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Sonny Rollins Available Now Longstanding customers know that we have been relentlessly critical of so-called “audiophile” LPs for years, especially in the case of these Analogue Productions releases from back in the early-90s. A well-known reviewer loved them, I hated them, and he and I haven’t seen eye […]

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Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Jackson Browne Available Now It’s not easy to find copies that get the tonal balance right the way the best copies do. Most err in one of two ways — either they’re rich, full and a little veiled, or they’re clear and transparent, but leaned-out and boosted in […]

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More of the Music of Linda Ronstadt The originals from 1967 have never impressed us much. Click on the links below for more records that sound best to us on the right reissue pressing  Here are some Hot Stamper pressings that we think sound their best on the right reissue (the ones we sell, obviously; […]

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