MOBILE FIDELITY ONE STEP VINYL

Equipment that I used to hear this record.

Technics SL1200 G, modded with Triplanar Classic SE tonearm and Lyra Kleos cartridge.

Pass 160.8 monoblocks
Pass  XP 20 linestage
Manley Steelhead phono with NOS Telfunken 6922 tubes

New Rockport Atria IIs, these are replacing my 14 year old Avalon Opus speakers.

Best to All on this Journey

Special Thanks to millercarbon

I really love vinyl but other than to try one just to know what the fuss is about I'm not about to spend $125 on a record when I can get a High def digital version for $18. If no body paid that kind of stupid money for them the prices would come down to acceptable levels. By buying $1 worth of plastic for $300 you are egging these guys on. Stop getting sucker punched!!

Is it just me, or does anyone else find the notion of a seller of "especially good" pressings of LP's having actually listened to multiple pressings of every title he sells, found the one (or ones) that sound "especially good", does that sound not just plausible, but even possible? That's a lot of man (or woman) hours!

Eric

I assume you are referring to the Better Record blurb on their web site.
I too went for a look after the recommendations here and was a little surprised that all it appears to be is something you or I or anybody here could stumble along.
Granted we may not have the time or resources.
But agreed it seems a little odd, I mean lets say they have bought and graded 1000 copies of DSOTM to find a White Hot Stamper, what happens to the other 999?
Now if they truly are listening to and buying hundreds of copies of each album I can see where the price comes in to pay for the man hours but still...….

Surely there must be more to it than that?

No there is not uberwaltz. It was all made up by some marketing person who usually listens to a Bose radio. These guys are into making money and figure us audiophiles are stupid enough to spend that kind of money on a record. They will market them any way they think might help them sell. Remember, marketing is the fine art of lying to the customer. All of the drug/supplement adds you hear on the radio are pure BS. Never buy anything from a human who is trying to sell you something. 
I just listened to The Academy of St.Martin-in-the-fields doing Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez, Pepe Romero on Guitar. It is just a plain old Phillips pressing I probably pain $10 for 3 decades ago. Gorgeous recording and dead quiet. As good as any Analog Productions and better than many current MoFi pressings. 
$125 is bad enough but 300 is totally ridiculous.