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What are Your Favorite and Most hated Record Manufacturers

I have had great luck with Analog Productions and Friday Music.
I will not buy another Rycodisc pressing.
At the end of this thread I will make a list of the most loved and hated record companies. Hopefully this will make life easier for us vinyl lovers and we can send a message to the bad companies by not purchasing their products and just maybe they will increase their quality. 

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Oops, the Kinks’ expanded Muswell Hillbillies is coming from Amazon. Coming from Elusive Disc is the 3-LP/5-CD/3-7" expanded boxset of The Kinks’ fantastic album The Village Green Preservation Society, the original of which Pete Townshend said is better than Tommy and Sgt. Pepper. I heartily concur (though the cited competition is not imo very stiff ;-) ! On sale at ED for $109.99 with free shipping.
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Having now finally received some Analog Productions LP’s, I too can confidently recommend them.

On it’s way is a Speakers Corner LP (Raphael Puyana’s The Golden Age Of Harpsichord Music, an original on Mercury Living Presence of which I already own), a label highly recommended by The 45 RPM Audiophile (Michael of The Vinyl Community on YouTube, a charming collector in Germany. Check out his videos.). Mastered by Kevin Gray, pressed at Pallas.

Elusive Disc is currently having a sale on LP’s: 10/20/30/40% off, and they’re good titles. Stuff like a couple of Sam Phillips (formerly a Contemporary Christian artist, then T Bone Burnett’s wife and collaborator, now on her own) titles finally available on LP, Marshall Crenshaw on MoFi, The Kinks’ expanded Muswell Hillbillies album on Sanctuary to name just a few. Free shipping on $99 orders. Hope they pack well!

I have a lot of Classic Records LP’s, a very important reissue label started in the 90’s. While MoFi at that time was reissuing some titles of debatable value (Supertramp?!), and applying questionable equalization (their Beatles LP’s are not good---I sold all mine right before the EMI boxset was released, which more than paid for the box), Classic released great titles in excellent sound.

I was a customer of one of the two founders/owners of Classic---not Michael Hobson, but rather his partner Ying Tan---who sold collectible LP’s out of his stuffed apartment (you shoulda seen the place!) just off Sunset Blvd., one block East of Laurel Canyon. I never heard why he left Classic, after which Hobson ran the label himself. Ying, where are ya?!

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Capitol has always made terrible LP's, one reason in the 60's and 70's we bought British E.M.I. copies of as many titles as we could.
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Rounder and Sugar Hill. Chris Hillman has two pure Bluegrass albums on the latter, both with great music and sound quality. I tend to not include audiophile labels on these kinds of lists, for the well known reason that their musical content is most often of no interest (to me, at least). But there are of course exceptions. I'll leave those nominees to others. ;-)
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Bear Family (Germany), Sundazed, Harmonia Mundi (France and U.S.A.), Ace (UK). 
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