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Did you see this e-article in Yahoo news today??

https://www.yahoo.com/makers/why-this-record-stores-750-lps-are-hot-sellers-112730604250.html

A few things stood for me:
* he offers money-back if not satisfied. Nice to know this!
* he insists that the 'audiophile haters" are wrong to blame the audiophiles when they (latter) buy pricey stereos
* the LP cleaning solutions recommended are none other than Walker Audio & Disc Doctor; not some run of the mill product
* Port's recommendations for warming up the stereo seems to be in-line with what I've read here in the basic guidelines

hmmmmm..........maybe there are more audiophile 'crack-pots' out there that need to be recruited into the AudioAssylum??? ;-)
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bombaywalla OP
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Rlwainwright,
my 1st point was supposed to be very tongue-in-cheek (hence the exclamation mark) but I did not know a better way to show that in my post. Agree, his prices for those 2 particular albums is ludicrous.
the other 3 points: it was refreshing to see somebody outside the small world of Audiogon/AA/AudioCircle recommend products you + I would use.
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Taters, I tend to agree with you that the pricing on these "hot stampers" vinyl is ludicrous BUT there just might be some truth to it.
Read this forum thread (as I did) & also watch the Mike Fremer video (see the post by Qdrone) in its entirety (I'm in the process of - watched 20 mins of the 60 mins).
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1399384539&&&/Hot-Stamper-myth-or-reality-

after all of this you might still be unconvinced but at least you'll be better educated (I was/am).
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BTW, just to be clear: I'm not taking sides one way or the other re. hot stampers vinyl & their pricing but I'm merely pointing you to some additional info.
Apparently this topic is not new & the pricing is also not as ludicrous as it 1st seems - there's this company called Better Records that's been pricing such vinyl at these stratospheric prices for a while now......
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