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Actually, you are right. He is a big part of the reason. Back when AP did a short Impulse 45 series, it was announced as a SH/KG project. But when Universal saw Hoffman's name, they threatened to cancel unless he was removed. At one point, further killing any relationship, he stated on his...

VMP is no different than MOFI - neither get Sony owned tapes. Nobody does. VMP has done plenty of Sony in recent times, such as the Miles set done from 1-1 master tape copies. MOFI prefer to do DSD transfers, which are done at the Sony facility. DSD transfers are much cheaper than tape copies...

SH is not a mastering engineer. In the digital domain, he is simply an EQ adjuster. In vinyl, he is at best an EQ 'consultant' who must work with an actual engineer. He is indeed an arrogant douche. The SHF is the place where joy in music goes to die. Hoffman was first caught stealing Buddy...

TP's are, for the most part, intended as a check on plating before those plates go into production. Generally, they aren't used for sonic evaluations, although MM did send out TP's for evaluation of sound ( I know, I was one who got MM TP's) and - not common to other audiophile labels - would...

Listening to this last two days. Very nice, all around. Decent price. Haven't really been knowedgable about Eddie Hazel. Now I am.

Level table, proper anti-skate setup, alignment etc. all make ahuge difference. My Pictures of Heath (not a favorite album anyways) plays perfect. I'm sure a lot of the online commentators, like on Discogs, haven't even got their turntable level.

I would take the Coltrane off your hands friend...;)

Why the assumption that this is in the 'artisan' series? Has that been stated? Hope they are not.

VNYL is an even worse horror show with an even lower expected lifespan.

You are not wrong. This is simply a sham, a new twist to get you to pay for records they can't move. VMP is rapidly moving into ponzi territory.

Overall, I am almost caught up with packages that arrived in Canada before and in the first week of the strike. In other countries, after the first week, practices varied. Some simply stopped accepting packages, some let them pile up in their sorting centres or airport warehouses. What they...

That model would fail. Actually, it could never get off the ground. Algorithm based personal curation is what Amazon tries to do. Badly. It is the opposite of scale. Cost per title would go through the roof. And there is no way people would like every selection. Unless they banned swaps, it...

Still learning.

Ashford & Simson aren't so bad. Valerie Simpson was a major, major Motown songwriter. She wrote many of the greatest hits of the 60's. Respect. Never heard of Eddie Hazel. I wasn't aware there was any room left on that coffin for another nail.

There are PLENTY enough GREAT sounding Dead options for these titles. Waiting for VMP may end up being the equivalent of standing at the dock waiting for the Titanic to arrive.

Agree. BTW, whatever Kai at SC says, by the pandemic he was like 70 and had his retirement already laid out. It was an easy push. I don't know what the scoop is on Sony. They seem to be more interested in rights management than product. They are still very active in sync but less in reissue...

Speakers Corner basically retired when the pandemic hit, although he did some represses and actually has two titles coming out this year - both lacquers that were cut pre-covid. Retirement/pandemic more than costs. Rubellan is marginal at best. Or was. Looks like a bad licensing deal put him...

They will scrape whatever barrel they can at this point. Craft/Concord don't want a record reissue club. They have a much larger customer base via retail. They can reissue whatever they like from their catalog with far wider distribution. And they would lose a lot of VMP licensed titles -...

I can think of lots of things that are more fun, even though most involve not wearing clothes.

Is this a kids record? Looks like it from the Sesame Street style cover. Never heard of her. From the clip, sounds like any of a thousand bar singers on the circuit.