Latest bin find.....Elton John

@tablejockey,

What I found very interesting was...Tom Port makes his business on rejecting heavy weight re-issues, yet on the rear lp jacket of the DCC,  EJ "Madman.." he gets a credit by "archival cutting consultant". What the _ell?

slaw, are you certain it's the same dude?

I agree with TP on a lot of his critique, but call BS on some his his attempts at being "technical" with descriptives.  There isn't anyone who's 100%, and he sometimes hits a BS grand slam, now and then. I'm curious of his technical pedigree.and qualifications.

Personally, im not sold on heavy presses. You probably have some decent,floppy Bowie copies in your collection? On the flip side, I have not heard a heavy press as inferior. Most, not all new, anything to my ears has bumped up bass and an unexplainable something(perhaps it just in my head?) which is lacking?

Example-Friday Music copies I have...Trower,Beck etc.. sound like their pressed for my system I used in 1978!

I can't be 100% certain. However, I do know from years of reading, buying, and so on that TP had a business relationship with Steve Hoffman at some point. More important, TP has said that the guy that is the head of Impex, Robert Pincus, was his main influence/mentor in his whole business plan of Hot Stampers/dead wax info, and IMPEX is an off-shute of Cisco (another Steve Hoffman label).

Lots of interesting affiliations going on here that would lead anyone to believe my point.

slaw-insert Arte Johnson GIF here...VERY INTERESTING
Johnny Carson- I did not know that...

I went to Tom Ports apartment in Sherman Oaks (a couple of blocks from mine, just off the Ventura Blvd. that Tom Petty mentions vampires walking down in "Free Falling") a couple of times in the 90's, buying a French pressing of the Magical Mystery Tour LP. I was surprised to learn he had a decidedly mid-fi system through which he made his LP sound quality assessments. At the time his prices hadn't yet become absurd.