Led Zeppelin II on vinyl

@tablejockey 

Thanks to all this RL hype, a decent copy will now be $1500? Stamper guy has sharpened his writing skills since 2015. Now he can REALLY sell the sizzle for that steak!

The last time I heard about any RL / SS pressings selling, they were $2,000+.

The price is based on sound quality and rarity.

Only 200,000 RL / SS pressings were made.  That was 57 years ago.

Considering that teenagers were buying them, playing them to death, with misaligned and not good cartridges, and mishandling them, not too many survived in excellent condition.

"Stamper guy" (Tom Port) offers them for sale, when he finds one, which is, at most, one per year.  And they are not always in high grade condition (and his grading is by ear -- how it sounds -- he plays them to grade them).

No one is being strong-armed.  You have 30 days to return any purchase -- no questions asked.

No one has to pay his prices.  Anyone is free to find one somewhere else.

@chrisoshea 

Tom provides a service to lazy audiophiles.

Many people are too busy to even spend time with their families, let alone go record hunting, and sound quality evaluating, etc.

Many people come home from work, exhausted.

Tom's service is helpful to a lot of very busy (not lazy) people.  It takes the guess work out of record hunting.

Also, without knowing which stamper codes to seek, and which stamper codes to avoid, your miss vs. hit ratio will be terrible.  Tom has a database of such stamper codes (his trade secret), which took him years of purchases (good and band) and also the labor of listening and keeping notes to achieve his knowledge on so many album titles.

He also keeps detailed notes on every pressing that he sells.

Have you compared any of his White Hot pressings to your own purchases?

I have the MFSL as well. Should relisten.

@audphile1 

On Discogs I have a 1969 Terre Haute pressing for sale:

https://www.discogs.com/release/3473070-Led-Zeppelin-Led-Zeppelin-II?redirected=true

If you read one of the long comments about this pressing (on the bottom of the page), you'll find a letter from Robert Ludwig stating that this pressing is the same as his with the RL logo.

I'm selling because I have one of the MFSL copies of the album, and their boosting of the bass really works on this LP!