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$210USD for a MP-500 is a great deal.

Suggestion only. Look at the JICO line, particularly models with an SAS stylus or even a nude elliptical. Quality is superb and value for money quite superior as you buy direct.

You CAN buy 'audiophile' fuses for a fair bit of green. They are sold exclusively for idiots who appreciate placebos. NO difference whatsoever. Now, a linear power supply is often a good idea - if it is a good one. A power conditioner is really little more than a filter. I've never come across...

Agree and I have said it many times before - the perfect is the enemy of the good. A pressing that sounds great and you enjoy is all you need. Then explore music the reissue companies aren't pushing on you. There is so much out there! I have been pulling records out of my collection from...

To my knowledge, there are no KPG-Sundazed mastered by KPG, with one exception. All were cut from mastered digital files, not high res, sent to him. Some are very good. Crown of Creation, for example. Runaways another. More recent Sundazed are more often cut analog, but not KPG, except Rahsaan...

The difference between Joe Harley and Hoffman is that Joe never claimed to be a mastering engineer, and has a long history as an actual record producer. When Music Matters fired Hoffman, KPG had no further reason to endure him. His editorializing in mastering sessions was just a constant...

That's because Lutthans is a mastering engineer who knows how to cut a record, and Hoffman is neither. My Grandma can put Hoffman to shame on just about any title. His famous 'inverted smiley face eq' formula - good from far, far from good.

That is one horrible record that no one except JD Vance is clamoring for.

They are struggling. Bad executive over-extended and diverted money into a pressing plant venture that a very small company like VMP simply has no business doing. People were clamoring for new tracks like country and rock, but listening to voices online is not a reliable gauge of market...

Only relevant to Canadians, but apparently, here is Universal Canada fucking over customers again.

I have it. It is excellent. At least you know with the VMP who mastered it. With Elemental you don't (likely the digital file was sent to the pressing plant and the lacquer or DMM plates were cut in house). I think the VMP was 2017? At that time, KPG was heavily invested in Music Matters...

Too bad BN are not taking this one up in the Classic series. Elemental vinyl is all digital. Hopefully they will at least do the original gatefold. They are legit licensed, but for a reason they don't disclose source or mastering.

LOL. ZERO of these are AAA. Like - ZERO. And based in Italy, with weak rights laws, there are none licensed. General consensus - online boards? Discogs? Hoffman? Sure thing.

Actually it is pretty clear that the digital is 24/96 Flac or Wav but standard digital is MP3 24/44 to be compatible with shitty Itunes players.

And it was reissued this year using the same plates and goes for $35.

I respect this. Nothing wrong with it if you enjoy it. IMO there is much, much better and so much more to explore that it doesn't merit for me. But sure, if it is in your wheelhouse, go for it. IMO there are two types of listening. One is for a background, a chill. The other is for...

Agree. AAA Ryan Smith, Tip On, insert booklet....everything except the music!

Yes, they are. In every case that there are old Classic plates, Chad will use them. Higher margin. And to be fair, there is really no reasons not to, the Classic cuts are excellent.

Not jazz, but two indispensable Japanese books.

I don't think Marcus Miller was born yet when RVG was recording in Hackensack. It will be Teo, which goes into the category of lost sounds that can safely remain lost. A light, pleasant record that is entirely forgettable, and which reached the cutout bins back in the day quickly.