Who is you go to for top quality vinyl

oleschool, please let me commiserate on your lost collection (and house!), here in Malibu I go nuts each time temp in the Valley reaches 100 and I realize that one flick of a cigarette butt by a passing asshole or a "friendly citizen" starting another fire, and thats it for my collection!
If I may, does anyone have enything nice to say about Soviet-era pressings from Melodiya? Thats all I had when growing up, totally hated it for warped records, learned that LPs can be totally and consistently flat only after visiting Poland in late 80-ies and bringing back Jethro Tull, Genesis, DireStraits, PF... Was totally stunned when John Schwarts from Chicago ProMusica mentioned that Melodiya made excellent-sounding records!??!!? John is like God to me, but this one statement goes against all my personal experiences! Maybe he just wanted to make me feel better about my x-citizenship?

Also, check Art Dudley ramblings in a Stereophile few issues back about a lady from England who sells used LPs making notes how many pops/clicks there is. 

servs- I have a couple of oddball Beatles records made in the Soviet era that sound pretty good. One is an early comp w/ Taste of Honey. It’s probably a 2 dollar bin record. I do have a fair number of Melodiya classical records that I acquired over the years, and never thought they were outstanding, but it's been quite a few years since I listened to any of them. Some interesting music, early modern piano, e.g. Scriabin, was recorded in Russia, and while interpreted by others, some of the better renditions are only on old Soviet records. (I have yet to bite the bullet on those). What is interesting is that some of the uber records- Vertigos, obscure prog records, etc. got scooped up by wealthy or smart collectors in Russia, and they became market makers for those records.

Hmmm 
I dont think I ever had any Russian pressing.Well there ya go i thought i had 4 of everything lol...The part the sucked most about losing my collection in the fire besides the obvious,is that you have to go back and 
A) find it...some being sooo pricey now
B) Buy the same  dam lp you heard a million times and had 4-5 pressings of . 

Here is the link to Art Dudley article about spiralclassics.co.uk :
http://www.stereophile.com/content/listening-160#VzYbU35pzuhwdsqi.97
the very idea of counting pops and clicks is new to me, but for those who already know what to expect from the specific LP in terms of surface noise and mastering quality, such info is a must, I guess...

I left all my LP collection back in Ukraine, and I agree that the pain of choosing which albums should be replaced can be numbed only by buying and restocking 'em all!! ;-)