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l looks like hanawa-san from Judgement records is involved now....he is OG disk union crew and did most of the Think! records stuff...

Hal's is great, it's his son running it now, but selection can be limited and prices are up, the dude from Seeed in Osaka also a nice guy. ArtRock in Kyoto is good but haven't been in awhile, - HMV Shinjuku just moved to a new location that kinda sucks, also the HMV retail stores are really...

good point...wonder if they sound any different? same KG, same tape...be interesting challenge

question - saw they are doing Hutcherson's Montara as a TP this year - does anyone know if they are recutting this or using the metal from the VMP boxset (that was KG?)? tia

So...picked this up yesterday and will be interested in what the group take is here - now, this is definite unobtanium in its original JP reissues, ive only seen it once in the wild for quite a bit, but these are now over 5000yen locally, let me tell you that is a big number here...but cover...

are these originals or reissues - how do they sound?

exactly. nicely said. I ditched the thing for a feickert and never looked back....best decision for me. for someone else an opportunity to spend $4k on a CNC plinth...and chat about dressing.

since when? best sounding turntable I ever owned...also hated the thing

exactly again, there are too many variables - again, from a consumer perspective its interesting as their name (brand) can be a sign of quality - on the other hand they also might be able to turn projects down (protect their brand) and or know when master tapes are shit and feel their name...

Anyone have any experience here - seem to be an OEM as well...since we have a whole thing about Le Son, maybe Chinese cart brands are worth discussing more

exactly - and is that proven track record due to source material? since we do not know the correlation is spurious - but since this is basically a consumer guide its understandable...

this is interesting, semi-useful but spurious, regarding engineers at least - nothing spoken of with regard to master tapes, wherein we have no idea what the sound is like on the tape - they could just be doing the best they could with what they had, and that's no reason to stack rank. I get...

have these been issued? 'two is one' electric funk side is one of my favorites and would be interesting to see what KG did with it - and id totally sell my JP original if bettered....the others I don't listen to much so not worth the squeeze...but Larry Ridley! Take my money right now!!!

wow...interesting...glad to hear they are finally making something of this...wonder what condition the tapes are in...and why couldn't they do Winter In America, my original is noisy....

ok...so I had some 'meetings' this afternoon and have now been able to dial-in (for my level of nerd and vision) the setup and have been playing music for the last few hours... so its really a beautiful piece of kit and it sounds real good - ill say the same thing, it gets out of the way yet...