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What Are Hot Stamper Pressings and How Can I Find My Own? UPDATE 2026 You might find the comments at the end of this one interesting. Contemplating trying a money-back-guaranteed Hot Stamper pressing? Our good customer ab_ba has some advice on one of the best ways to go about it. He writes: Pick out a Hot […]

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Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Neil Young Available Now In 2018 we described our Shootout Winner this way: Amazing sound throughout for Neil’s self-titled debut – shootout winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound or close to it on both sides. Both sides are rich, full and Tubey Magical with a big bottom end and […]

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Hot Stamper Pressings of Living Stereo Titles Available Now Even though they had the Shaded Dog label, some of the later stampers for this record were not very good sounding compared to the ones that won our shootouts. 15s on side one earned a grade that would prevent it from being sold as a Hot […]

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More Electric Blues Boasting solid Double Plus (A++) grades or BETTER throughout, you’ll have a hard time finding a Lucille (the album, not the guitar) that sounds remotely as good as this vintage Bluesway pressing – impossibly quiet vinyl too, the quietest we’ve come across in twenty years of doing shootouts for this title An […]

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More of the Music of Ludwig van Beethoven In our opinion this is the best sounding Beethoven 6th Symphony ever recorded. It is the most beautiful of them all, and has long been my personal favorite of the nine Beethoven composed. Ansermet’s performance is clearly definitive to my ear as well. The gorgeous hall the […]

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