Redcarmoose
Headphoneus Supremus
No special records you don't play it at all. It's not even opened. It's collectors items to be sold in 30 years time.
That’s what is entertaining about vinyl; the rarity at times. The fact that while new editions can always be printed, there are funny legal loopholes which make some albums in the end........super valuable. Other things can happen too, like the giant master tape fire that happened in California years ago wiping out a good chunk of the worlds master-tapes. Just the fact that the records those masters were made from will never be able to me made again in that quality. Or of course the limited runs of old records where the masters were simply gone, or recorded over. There have been a couple records too which were remastered then pressed only to have legal issues stop the pressing making the items a guaranteed once in a lifetime thing to see, if you calculate the law of averages.
A 2019 New York Times Magazine exposé asserted that the fire also destroyed 118,000 to 175,000 audio master tapes belonging to Universal Music Group (UMG). This included original recordings belonging to some of the best-selling artists worldwide. UMG initially disputed the story, but CEO Lucian Grainge later confirmed that there had been a significant loss of musical archives.[7]
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html
Simply Head-Fi is humans chasing listening experiences that are based part on psychological ideas, but part on actual playback realities. Those concepts need a source to start to go into action. Without the character of the source all is lost.
Eventually when an owner of these basically unknown LPs decides to play it, it’s a 30 or 45 minute work up to the point when the needle drops. Though when listening you pretty much know that this is a once in a lifetime experience.
Once doing your research (which by the way is also questionable and difficult to verify) the simple existence of these records starts to take on a legendary status.
All this elitist style of one-off-man-ship takes place............it’s got a giant syringe of placebo just going in. But with it can be a listening session that a person remembers for their entire lifetime.
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