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				Confirmation Bias Why You Can’t Hear What You Don’t Want to Hear (Item #: bias) After doing our first shootout for this album a few years back I can honestly say I had never heard this music sound remotely as good as it did on the best Hot Stamper pressings. More importantly, from an audiophile point of view, I can honestly say that I never imagined it could sound as good as I was hearing it. The sound was just OUT OF THIS WORLD. It’s why we link the Revolutionary Changes in Audio commentary to so many of our Hot Stamper listings. The revolutionary changes we discuss are precisely what make it possible for any audiophile (this means you) to hear better sound than you ever imagined for all your favorite albums. All you have to do is do all the stuff we do. more Info


				Got Nice Equipment? It’s Only the First Step on the Long Long Road to Good Sound (Item #: equipment_) Most of these thoughts come from the Fremer's Folly commentary I wrote pointing out that all the expensive equipment Mr. Fremer owns is apparently not doing him much good. It certainly is not helping him in his attempt to distinguish good records from bad ones. I quoted his long list of of very expensive equipment because it, and the review its part of, perfectly illustrates my long-held belief that money cannot buy good sound. It just can’t. It never has and it never will. Sorry Mikey. Audio simply doesn’t work that way. more Info


				How to Become an Expert Listener Hard Work and Challenges Really Do Pay Off (Item #: expert) Scientific American joins forces with Better Records (or is it the other way around?) to share a few ideas, which turn out to have much in common. For years we have been writing in-depth commentaries about the sound of specific records that we've auditioned in order to put them up for sale on the site. By now there are literally hundreds of pages of commentary in which we've tried to explain, often in great detail, exactly what we listened for and exactly what we heard when playing these pressings. We've tried to be as clear as possible about precisely which qualities separate the better sounding LPs from their competitors -- what they do right, and how you can recognize these qualities. more Info


				In the Market for New Speakers? See If They Can Play This Record! (Item #: badstereo_1) The drum solo Joe Morello lets loose on Far More Drums is one of the best on record. I was playing that very song recently and it occurred to me that it is IMPOSSIBLE for any screen or panel speaker of any nature to reproduce the sound of those drums properly, regardless of how many subs you have. Most of the music is not in the deeper bass anyway. It’s the whack of instruments whose energy is in the lower midrange and midrange that a dynamic speaker with large drivers reproduces correctly and a screen speaker does not. more Info


				Our Playback System ... And Why You Shouldn’t Care (Item #: stereo) Below you will find a list of most of the equipment we use to carry out our pressing evaluations,also known as Hot Stamper shootouts. Of course the old 80/20 Rule comes into play here -- 80% (probably more like 90 or 95%, truth be told) of the sound is what you do with your audio system, 20% (or 10 or 5%) of the sound is the result of the components you own. We like to say it’s not about the audio you have, it’s about the audio you do: how you set up your system, what you’ve done to treat your room, how good your electricity is and all the rest of it. Our current system is described below. more Info


				Playing Better Records Won’t Do This Stereo Much Good Just Look At It! (Item #: badstereo) This is the system of a famous audiophile reviewer. If this is your system, and this is your room, you have no business reviewing either software or hardware under the pretense that you are doing so with an audiophile perspective. With this system how could you? more Info


				Revolutionary Changes in Audio What Works for Us Can Work for You (Item #: revolution) This listing, like the stereo itself (mine and yours), is a work in progress. Please check back for the commentary we expect to be adding in the future. Our reason for having this kind of commentary on a site ostensibly devoted to the selling of records is simple: the better your stereo sounds, the better our records sound, and, more importantly, the bigger the difference between our records and the copies you already own. Also those LPs recommended by "audiophile" record dealers, which tend to be on Heavy Vinyl, at 45 RPM, half-speed mastered or, even worse, Japanese pressed. We have no interest in any of them. Why? On our system they rarely sound better than second-rate. more Info


				Some Advice on Cheap Turntables Do Yourself a Favor and Don’t Buy One (Item #: cheaptables) Cheap turntables (the Music Halls, Projects, Regas and such) have many problems, some of which we address below after being prompted to discuss the subject of surface noise by a letter a good customer sent in recently. more Info

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