You could pour my lack of shock into a tall frosty mug and I would drink that shit DOWN.
Definitive Audiophile pressings
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Not surprised, their support has not been helpful in the past for issues I had. I had problems with defects in a couple of the Miles Davis releases, they were basically like "there's always a chance of defects when pressing large quantities of vinyl. You got a bad one. Thanks for playing".
The Denmarkian Wonder
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It's OOP so they might be flipping their remaining copies.
I didn't know they pulled that price gouging garbage... that's annoying.
Look at their prices on the dead mofis.
MikeH
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Most of them are actually still at MSRP. It’s just all their officially OOP ones it seems that get jacked up. I noticed that Acoustic Sounds does it as well now.
MikeH
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I just don’t buy that excuse. Who cares who it ends up going to? A sale is a sale. This is just them trying to capitalize on the money second hand vinyl sales gets. It’s also why their prices on new products like supervinyl are so expensive. Because they know people will pay it.
dhodo
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We are talking about titles that were in print for years. How would the flippers know that they were almost sold out to scoop them all up unless they told them?
Flipping is only really a problem when you don't produce enough to meet demand. MoFi has only recently started playing that game.
MikeH
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I’ve been keeping a pretty keen eye out for MoFis in the past year or two and the amount of flipping even for in-print stuff is crazy. People on eBay just out OOP on MoFis even though MD has them readily available on their site and they still sell for 2-3x the retail price. There’s one Facebook auction group in particular where a guy sells MoFis every week just about and even the in-print ones sell for way more than retail. I don’t understand it haha
Its not rocket science. Online retailers, particularly foreign, go out of stock and Music Direct has the remaining inventory.
Obviously, MD have a pretty good idea of when an item is going OOP. Flippers are by nature speculators - they get a sense of that by keeping their eye on vendors going out of stock.
I agree that MOFI has sadly started playing that game with the One-Step fad.
But at the same time, it can often be hard to predict demand in a very small niche market, and nobody likes to be sitting on stale inventory. And more lately, production numbers are being rationed by pressing plants, for a number of reasons.
hype
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Yeah man, prices on ebay period have gotten borderline strange for a ton of things i've noticed. It's like people get competitive and go above the retail just to "beat" the other bidders even though they're completely screwing themselves. It happens on buy it now though as well at times and that's even more strange especially on higher priced stuff. Maybe they're going for that extra 54 cents in ebay bucks?
Not going to lie it helped make me finally pull the trigger on the AP L.A. Woman after almosttttt waiting out AcousticSounds sell since I got a "much better deal" then anyone on ebay.
Not going to lie it helped make me finally pull the trigger on the AP L.A. Woman after almosttttt waiting out AcousticSounds sell since I got a "much better deal" then anyone on ebay.
MikeH
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Doesn’t seem all that hard to predict demand especially with them doing a bunch of batch pressings of albums. They have sold over 20,000 pressings of Kind of Blue and just keep pressing it. Seems like the smart way to do it if they are concerned about inventory...start with 2000-3000 pressed in initial inventory and go from there. Don’t price your last few copies at 3x retail just to try to squeeze some extra money out of customers. Don’t pay attention to the flipper prices because people will always be flipping records no matter what.
NathanRicaud
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I’ve got five Bob Marley & The Wailers Half-Speed mastered pressings on the way! I’ll be comparing them to four Bob Marley albums I already have! I’m looking really forward to hearing these Half-Speed Abbey Road pressings as reviews generally seem really good for them! 
Will be changing my cart tomorrow and will be trying to make sure my tonearm and everything is aligned.
The last 33 1/3RPM Abbey Road Half-Speed pressing I purchased was Amy Winehouse’s Frank, and it sounded stellar! So I’m expecting these Bob Marley Half-Speed pressings to sound great too!
Will be changing my cart tomorrow and will be trying to make sure my tonearm and everything is aligned.
The last 33 1/3RPM Abbey Road Half-Speed pressing I purchased was Amy Winehouse’s Frank, and it sounded stellar! So I’m expecting these Bob Marley Half-Speed pressings to sound great too!
MikeH
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Nice! The half speeds have mostly sounded good to me! I have Back To Black arriving this week since there was a deal on it over at Walmart (it was $22 or something). But not sure if that one sounds good or not. I’ve seen mixed reviews. Out of the ones I have, Sticky Fingers sounds bad but all the others sound great to me. I really like The Specials half speed.I’ve got five Bob Marley & The Wailers Half-Speed mastered pressings on the way! I’ll be comparing them to four Bob Marley albums I already have! I’m looking really forward to hearing these Half-Speed Abbey Road pressings as reviews generally seem really good for them!
Will be changing my cart tomorrow and will be trying to make sure my tonearm and everything is aligned.
The last 33 1/3RPM Abbey Road Half-Speed pressing I purchased was Amy Winehouse’s Frank, and it sounded stellar! So I’m expecting these Bob Marley Half-Speed pressings to sound great too!
Selaws
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Nice, I don't have the Bob Marley half-speeds but I did have the Brian Eno Abbey Road Half-Speed set. I ended up selling them because I wasn't playing them enough and I kind of regret it a bit, they really do sound fantastic.I’ve got five Bob Marley & The Wailers Half-Speed mastered pressings on the way! I’ll be comparing them to four Bob Marley albums I already have! I’m looking really forward to hearing these Half-Speed Abbey Road pressings as reviews generally seem really good for them!
Will be changing my cart tomorrow and will be trying to make sure my tonearm and everything is aligned.
The last 33 1/3RPM Abbey Road Half-Speed pressing I purchased was Amy Winehouse’s Frank, and it sounded stellar! So I’m expecting these Bob Marley Half-Speed pressings to sound great too!
Back To Black sounds a million times better than the standard press. It’s by no means the equivalent of a beautiful pressing of a 70s album but they’ve done a really good job with the source material. What I will say is that it is more than worth it, pressing quality aside, for the bonus LP that mirrors CD2 on the original deluxe edition, there’s some top quality tracks on there!
MikeH
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Got in my order from the Acoustic Sounds Chrimbo sale yesterday. Decided to pick up the AP pressing of Oscar Peterson's We Get Requests since a bunch of you here recommended it, and man...this thing sounds amazing. Highly recommend it. I also grabbed the Hendrix Family Edition of the mono pressing of Axis: Bold As Love which sounds really great. And I continue to be really impressed by the Rocktober series and Van Morrison reissues. Got T Rex self-titled Rocktober and Van Morrison - Moondance which is the KG cut pressed at RTI (and was only around $20). I have been going through KG's discography in discogs and trying to pick up a bunch of older represses he did before the go completely out of stock. Most are still in the $15-25 price range and sound great.
keylime_5
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Seconded. I picked up We Get Requests in the holiday sale at Acoustic Sounds and it is definitely one of my best sounding records I own now.