Shout out for Better Records

I second Viridian...my "hot stamper" cost dearly, sounded crappy and was warpped to boot..Ill buy my lp's elsewhere.

I have also had excellent experiences with Tom at Better Records. I have bought around 3 dozen hot stampers and found some great-sounding versions of many of my favorite titles, some astoundingly so. I will tell you what my BS detector has found. That many of these overpriced, overhyped "audiophile" records such as MFSL, Nautilus, Classic, Kevin Gray half-speeds aren't sonically worth the vinyl they are stamped from. I just bought a hot stamper of Michael Jackson Thriller and compared it to the CBS half speed, which is a JOKE. After hearing bass transients on the hot stamper that aren't even hinted at on other pressings of this record I had, there is no going back. For those who have a problem in paying for the hot stampers, let me ask how much you pay for amps, preamps, speakers, cables, turntables, CD players, and so on. If I can pay big bucks for these, why would I not want to pay for a recording that makes it sound as if I spent big bucks on some hardware component to make a recording sound better? Frankly, I am glad you are being closed-minded and not helping to drive up the price of these records. It leaves more for me.

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If aHot Stamper isthe Storeowners view that this or that record is really a great pressing then why not call any of the good onesa "Stamper"..I supposedly got awhole boxset of such records Bernstein's recordings of the Beethoven 9 symphonies with the NY Philharmonic.Made for the "producers" yea right.I can say they do sound very good but not appreciably better than other good recordings I have that are not labeled hot or cold. My question is does this refer to the actual temperature of the stamping master, if it cools off to the point that it no longer makes shallow deteriorated impressions of the grooves which in return yield gad awful sonics why risk destroying the image of your marque. That would be sheer idiocy although examples of that are abundant. What's the point to bum people out and produce waste. Clearly that cut disc "stamper" is kept hot. If it is not I just patented the rights to the idea ,how ridiculous.

I still undecided on the "hot stamper" thing. I've bought several. Some are amazing, two are ok. What better records has done is inspire me to search out the fascinating correlation between matrix numbers and "better" sounding copies. Truly fascinating. Vinyl reporduction is an art and it makes sense to me that sound can depend on the artist.