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Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings are proud to announce the newest incarnation
of titles to be pressed at 45 RPM on 200-gram vinyl. Ladies and gentlemen: The Doors!
Additionally, these will also be available on Multichannel Hybrid SACD.
The Doors Strange Days Waiting For The Sun Soft Parade Morrison Hotel L.A. Woman
AAPP 74007-45 AAPP 74014-45 AAPP 74024-45 AAPP 75005-45 AAPP 75007-45 AAPP 75011-45
$50.00 $50.00 $50.00 $50.00 $50.00 $50.00
(two 45-RPM LPs) (two 45-RPM LPs) (two 45-RPM LPs) (two 45-RPM LPs) (two 45-RPM LPs) (two 45-RPM LPs)
Multichannel Hybrid Multichannel Hybrid Multichannel Hybrid No SACD available No SACD available Multichannel Hybrid
SACD SACD SACD for this title for this title SACD
CAPP 74007 SA CAPP 74014 SA CAPP 74024 SA CAPP 75011 SA
$30.00 $30.00 $30.00 $30.00
Cut from the original analog masters by Doug Sax, with the exception of The Doors, which was made from the best tape copy. Sax and Doors
producer/engineer Bruce Botnick went through a meticulous setup to guarantee a positively stunning reissue series.
This is an all-tubes process. These masters were recorded on tube equipment and the tape machine used for transfer for these releases is a
tube machine, as is the cutting system. Tubes, baby! A truly authentic reissue project.
Also available: Mr. Mojo Risin’:
The Doors By The Doors The Story Of L.A. Woman
The Doors by The Doors – a Featuring exclusive interviews with Ray
huge, gorgeous volume in which Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger
the band tells its own story – is colleagues and collaborators, exclusive per-
now available. Stuffed with nev- formance, archive footage and examination
er-before-seen photos, revealing of the original multi track recording tapes
interviews and more, this stunning Blu-Ray DVD with Producer Bruce Botnick, this film will
book will be manna for Doors fans. CELE 39396 - $19.98 tell the amazing story of this landmark al-
286 pages. Standard DVD bum by one of the most influential bands on
Book - L BK 25 - $44.95 CELE 39396 - $14.98 the planet.
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Dear Customer, FEATURES
You know, in many ways this might be the most exciting catalog I’ve ever brought
to you. There are just so many enormous things going on at Acoustic Sounds right 02 Acoustic Sounds Move
now. It almost makes me dizzy thinking of how much has happened just since last 04 Quality Record Pressings
year’s holiday catalog. I’ll try to touch on a few here, and of course you can learn a
lot more in the following pages. NEW MUSIC 2-60
The last time I wrote you we were on the verge of moving the entire Acoustic
08 LPs
Sounds operation. Well, we’ve done it, tripling in size. We’re now in three buildings,
15 Verve Reissues
totaling 70,000 square feet. We’ve got a 30,000 square-foot warehouse, a 20,000
13 Impulse Reissues
square-foot office and then a 21,000 square-foot building that’s the home to our
44 New Music
brand new Quality Record Pressings. Read all about the move on page 2.
64 SACDs
The launch of Quality Record Pressings (QRP) is easily the most exciting business
72 Prestige Reissues
news I’ve shared since I opened Blue Heaven Studios in 1997. Getting this pressing
74 Best of Box Sets
plant up and running has been an unbelievable process. Truly unbelievable. But
134 Last Minute Additions
we’ve done it, and, man, are the results proving to be worth the efforts. You just
can’t believe the quality of records that are coming off of these presses. The re-
EQUIPMENT 52-133
viewers are freaking out. Customers are calling and writing with their amazement.
It’s just been awesome to come out of the gates so hot. Read about QRP on page 4
52 Turntables
and find much more at www.qualityrecordpressings.com.
84 Cartridges
Of course, the very first title we pressed at QRP was our Analogue Productions 90 Cartridge Comparison Guide
reissue of Cat Stevens’ Tea For The Tillerman. This thing is absolutely smoking, and 92 Record Cleaners
guys like Michael Fremer and Marc Mickelson have said the same. Check out the 94 Phono Preamps
story inside the back cover. 97 Preamps
Then you’ve got all our new Verve titles – a reissue series of 25 LPs, all pressed 98 Integrated Amps
at QRP. You’ve got the Muddy Waters Folk Singer, the Dusty Springfield Dusty In 101 Tube Integrated Amps
Memphis, the Tony Joe White Homemade Ice Cream, the Jimmy Witherspoon and 102 Power Amps
Ben Webster Roots, the three new Ray Charles titles, the Ben Webster Gentle Ben, 104 Digital Audio
our new APO direct to discs and on and on. Really, it does go on an on. All pressed 106 Speakers
at QRP. And next we’re coming out with 50 new cherry-picked records from the 110 Headphones
Prestige label – 25 monos and 25 stereos. Read all about it on page 72. Oh yeah, 114 Headphone Amps
and the Doors. Ever heard of them? Just before we went to press with this catalog, 115 iPod Audio
I got word that we’d scored the rights to reissue from the original master tapes all 116 Line Conditioners
six of the Doors albums at 45 RPM as well as four on SACD! Check it out inside the 119 ISO Devices
front cover. 121 System Setup
124 Record Cleaning
But we’re more than just vinyl. In fact, we’ve got easily our biggest SACD reissue
128 Record Accessories
ever with Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here sourced from the original master tapes
128 Record Storage
and mixed by Floyd producer/engineer James Guthrie for 5.1 surround as well as
131 Books
hybrid stereo. This one is just beyond exciting. It’s a landmark reissue for Analogue
132 DVDs
Productions. Read all about it on page 65.
Like I said, it’s crazy how much big news there is to share. I’ve run out of space, but
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have to dig for yourselves. It’s all in here.
So, give us a call. We can recommend. We can
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and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays (CST).
Sincerely,
Chad Kassem
Acoustic Sounds, Inc. CEO
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Six years ago, almost to the day, we wrote this same
story. The one about how we had moved – tripled in
size. How we’d finally found our permanent home, our
last stop. We had outgrown our 6,000-square-foot ware-
house and had moved into 18,00 square feet – a space
that at the time felt so massive we were sure we’d never
need to move again. And so we wrote a story, and in it
we said, “And so here we are with no expectations to
2 move again…We’re not going anywhere anytime soon.”
Is six years soon? It sure feels like it. As it was, we filled And no longer will the warehouse have to share space
those 18,000 square feet in half that time. Just like be- with the offices. The pencil pushers have their own build-
fore the previous four moves, records and boxes start- ing – 20,000 square feet of building. Almost all of our
ed to stack in some pretty strange places. And so here office staff now enjoys the luxury of their own office, and
we are, fresh off a full-tilt, all-hands-on-deck move – to we’ve even got a few empty ones in case of new hires.
70,000 square feet! Yup, we’ve nearly quadrupled our
size. 70,000 square feet! The idea that 6,000 square feet But what’s most exciting is what’s behind door number
held our whole company as recently as six years ago is three: Quality Record Pressing. That’s right, Acous-
just hilarious for us to think about now. At the rate we’re tic Sounds has begun a state-of-the-art record press-
going, we might have bathrooms that size in the next ing plant. We’ve found the absolute best presses ever
place. made, hired the industry’s top professionals and given
them free reign to implement no-expense-spared inno-
So, what are we going to do with 70,000 square feet?
vations. That’s what’s happening in the other 20,000
Let’s have a look.
square feet.
Acoustic Sounds, Inc. is now housed in three separate
So that’s the word from here – our sixth Acoustic Sounds
buildings, all across the street from one another. First,
location. From a two-bedroom apartment to a four-bed-
we’ve got a 30,000 square foot dedicated warehouse.
room ranch-style house to a downtown storefront to a
That means 30,000 square feet of inventory – vinyl,
6,000-square-foot warehouse to an 18,000-square-foot
CDs, stereo equipment and more vinyl. Oh, and more
former grocery store to this.
vinyl after that. This warehouse is nearly the length of a
city block – the long side of the block. To go with such a
Wanna hear something scary? It’s already starting to
huge space we’re implementing major order processing
look a little cramped in here…
improvements that will allow us to get product from the
trucks, to the shelves, into the boxes and back on the
- Marc Sheforgen
trucks much more efficiently. 3
NAME?
WHAT'S IN A
that reduces die temperature cycle time and provides a
finely tuned level of temperature control so that records are
produced without the temperature variations that result in
record inconsistency.
And we’ve brought all of the extruders back to their original
W
specifications, again to control the temperature of the vinyl.
e put a lot of thought into how best to name our new The most common errors we all hear in defective records
pressing plant, but in the end the decision was to side with today has to do with overheated vinyl.
a simple, declarative statement: Quality Record Pressings.
But just as you can’t have an excellent finished LP without
That’s it. Our entire focus is towards the goal of pressing the
an error-free pressing, you also can’t produce great records
finest records the world has ever known.
without flawless plating. Which is why we’ve brought in the
It’s been a long time since anyone has actually manufactured best plating man in the business, Gary Salstrom, to set up
a new record press. But we’ve done the next-best thing by and operate a state-of-the-art plating department. Not every
taking three of the best brands ever made – SMT, Toolex pressing plant has a plating department. And only one plant
Alpha and Finebilt – and rebuilding them equipped with – QRP – has the best. Plating can affect everything from pre-
modifications that have never before been tried in the record echo and high-end loss to record profile and warping. Getting
pressing industry. it right is essential.
Those innovations include adding microprocessors to the This is but a brief synopsis of what sets QRP apart from the
presses. Microprocessors allow both the operator and the competition. The proof, of course, is in the product. We’re
engineer a level of control capability and feedback simply sure you’ll hear and see the difference.
unavailable with manual valves and control systems. Second
Quality Record Pressings. As the old cliché goes, the name
by second, the press operator can monitor and maintain
says it all.
production standards and press systems. The engineer can
To learn much more, visit QualityRecordPressings.com
spot and correct variations as they occur.
To date, presses have closed and opened based on time. That
time was set according to what the press engineer predicted
would be the stamper’s temperature. We’ve now developed a
die with an imbedded temperature sensor so that the presses
at QRP will close and open precisely when the temperature
is correct. Inevitably, a plant’s support water temperatures,
cooling water temperatures and steam pressures will
fluctuate throughout the day. By setting the presses to cycle
by temperature, we can correct for all of those variations. It
means a consistent sweet spot.
We’ve also installed a unique double steam valve system
Photo by Tom Dorsey
Courtesy of the Salina Journal.
Photo by Tom Dorsey
Courtesy of the Salina Journal.
By DAVID CLOUSTON
Salina Journal nationwide -- automotive batteries, frozen pizzas, fluorescent lamps, farm
T Courtesy of the Salina Journal tillage implements, firefighting equipment and airport shuttle buses, to name
a few. Now, thanks to Kassem, high-quality vinyl records can be added to the
wo things become clear in the first few minutes while Chad Kassem
list.
gives visitors a tour of the latest addition to his expanding business empire.
That’s right -- vinyl LPs. Turns out the medium wasn’t dead, it was merely
One is that the worn and greasy unrestored record presses resting in pieces in
resting. Driving the market is an increasing demand for the superior quality of
a dark warehouse corner show how much work it will take to bring them back
music that vinyl LPs provide over the more popular CDs.
to life.
Kassem has lately invested heavily in north Salina for his new business, Quality
The second thing is that those unused presses are ample proof Kassem’s
Record Pressings. The idea is to enhance the market for collectors of re-issued
business isn’t through growing.
classic recordings as well as original recordings released by APO Records, his
Six restored presses resting under bright fluorescent bulbs atop a freshly company’s record label.
painted floor in a room nearby appear as shiny as the day they left the factory.
Today, his businesses employ 47 workers, and he’s hired 13, so far, for the
They’re all 30 years old or older and have been tricked out with the latest
pressing plant.
electronic monitoring devices.
Kicked to the side
“Paint ‘em now, clean them up. Do everything you can think of. Now is the
In 1986, at the age of 24, Kassem started buying and selling used audiophile
time,” was Kassem’s charge to the technicians he’s hired to make his latest
LPs and CDs from his apartment. The enterprise became a business, Acoustic
vision for his company a reality.
Sounds, which today has expanded to include a sister business, Analogue
Salina for years has been known for the products made here and shipped
Productions. Analogue reissues choice jazz, blues, classical and folk
recordings.
Kevin Otte, record press operator, runs a record press.
Photo by Tom Dorsey
Courtesy of the Salina Journal.
In 1993, Kassem began augmenting his reissues with original recordings focused on
the blues, his favorite genre, on APO (Analogue Productions Originals) Records.
“Once vinyl started really taking off, we were a very good customer at (another) pressing
plant,” Kassem, 49, explained. “But when the big major (record labels) came knocking,
all of a sudden we weren’t so big anymore. We weren’t so important anymore. So we
kind of got kicked to the side.”
About four years passed before Kassem decided to do something about the increasing
delays in getting his records pressed. In late December 2010, he tripled the size of his
core business, buying three empty buildings in the neighborhood of North and Ninth
streets, altogether totaling about 70,000 square feet.
One, an enormous warehouse, now houses the majority of the record album inventory,
as well as the shipping department. Another is a nearby office building that houses
the administrative staff, customer call center, graphic designers and more storage for
preowned LPs.
Lastly, Kassem bought a former refrigerated warehouse and is turning it into the home
of his newest venture, Quality Record Pressings.
Better than orignals
These days some rare vinyl LP collectors say fine reissues of classic jazz and
classical recordings are better than the originals in many cases, for four main
reasons. First, they feature super fidelity reproduction at 45 revolutions a minute
instead of 331/3 rpm. Second, they’re made with higher-quality, thicker vinyl at 180
grams or better. Third, they’re produced with meticulous remastering, using the
original source analog tape recordings used to produce the original record. And
lastly, they’re made with pristine vinyl with no wear.
The New York Times, in an August 2010 article profiling Analogue Productions and
other companies involved in reissuing jazz recordings, called the 45 rpm a fringe
phenomenon but one that’s “the fine-laced fringe of a market that’s in revival.”
The Times reported that in 2009, 2.5 million LPs were sold nationwide, up from
1.9 million in 2008 and 990,000 in 2007. The numbers amount to less than 2
percent of the music market, but they’re at their highest level in two decades.
Prices for top-quality reissued LPs can run $50 or more. That may seem
outlandish, but not so much to audiophiles whose turntables cost a few thousand
dollars and their stereo systems much more.
“We looked like idiots for a long time. We were the only ones going against the
grain (by sticking by vinyl LPs),” said Kassem, who reissued his first record
title in 1992, Virgil Thomson’s “The Plow That Broke The Plains,” originally
issued on Vanguard records. Now, with vinyl sales picking up, “We’re looking
like geniuses.”
A dedicated following
Gary Salstrom, plant manager, inspects a nickel “mother”
Even as CDs became lauded in the 1980s as the nail that would hammer that is used to make “stampers” for the record press.
shut vinyl’s coffin, some critics of the format thought writing off vinyl was Photo by Tom Dorsey
Courtesy of the Salina Journal.
premature.
Kevin Otte, record press operator, secures a stamper in the record press. Photo by Tom Dorsey
Courtesy of the Salina Journal.
“There was always a dedicated following. It’s as absurd as saying books were “We’re going to be as busy as we want to be. We really don’t want any more
going away when the Kindle was invented,” said Michael Fremer, referring to business than we already have. If all I do is press my own records, I’ll be all
Amazon.com’s electronic book reader. Fremer is a senior contributing editor right,” Kassem said.
for Stereophile magazine and editor of the audiophile website musicangle. “And if it’s just my own records, and people go, ‘I like his label because his
com. label has the best vinyl,’ how bad can I go wrong there?” he asked.
Fremer describes music on CDs as the “sex equivalent of sandpaper condoms,” Other businesses doing well
and he’s watched and written about Kassem’s record-pressing adventure with
Kassem also is enjoying success in his other ongoing ventures. About a quarter
growing interest.
of Acoustic Sounds’ business is overseas, mainly in Germany, Japan and Hong
“What he’s done is unbelievable. It’s already a world-class processing plant. Kong. The company also has strong customer bases in New York, Chicago and
But it has the potential of being the best,” Fremer said. Los Angeles. The warehouse ships 250 to 300 orders a day consistently.
You get 2 vinyl discs Kassem also owns Blue Heaven Studios, a converted church on South Eighth
The grooves on an LP are the music’s actual acoustic waves, etched by a Street, where each October he hosts a two-day blues festival that draws music
cutting head into the soft lacquer of a master disc. The grooves on a 45 rpm fans from across the country and even other nations.
LP are spread out more widely, so a turntable’s cartridge ferrets out very quiet Kassem chose to stay in Salina when he decided to move the company from
sounds and fine details, such as the full shimmer of a cymbal or the vibrating its 18,000-square-foot former home at 1500 S. Ninth. He gave some thought
wood of a bass. to relocating closer to his hometown of Lafayette, La., but decided against it.
Since 45 rpm is about one-third faster than the 331/3 rpm of standard LPs, “This was a lot of work to move across town. It probably would have been a
each disc holds a third less music, meaning the tracks on a single album have million dollars to move (the business) to Louisiana,” he said. “My family’s
to be spread out over two vinyl discs instead of a two-sided single disc. here, we have a little girl. There are a lot of good things here. I like Salina. And
Kassem, working with other record plants, has released in the neighborhood of the things it lacks, we try to bring -- like music and food. We try to bring the
300 titles in LP and super audio CD formats. party here.”
Those discs have included work from the catalogs of such legendary record
labels as Blue Note, with leading artists Art Blakey (drummer and bandleader)
and Lou Donaldson (saxophonist), and Impulse!, with saxophonist John
Coltrane.
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analogue productions
BLUES BLUES
Quality Record Pressings’ First Blues Title!
MUDDY WATERS
Folk Singer
Folk Singer has been an audiophile staple for years. It always gets
a bunch of play at hi-fi shows. It’s a no-doubter demonstration disc.
But never before has it sounded like this! Never has it been cut at
45 RPM!
There are a handful of landmark albums in any genre. In the blues,
45-RPM LP one of them is Muddy Waters’ Folk Singer. Originally released in
AAPB 1483-45 1964, Folk Singer was the only acoustic album Waters ever re-
$50.00 corded, thus becoming the first and perhaps best blues concept
album ever. Muddy of course started out playing acoustic blues
in the Delta, and he’s clearly very comfortable in this return to his
SACD roots, which was designed to appeal to the mid-1960s surge of
CAPB 1483 SA interest in folk music.
$30.00
FREDDIE KING JIMMY WITHERSPOON JUNIOR WELLS
Getting Ready... Texas Cannonball with Ben Webster Hoodoo Man Blues
Freddie King is easily one of the most Released in 1972 as the second of Freddie Roots “...this album is DYNOMITE and this press-
influential blues guitarists of his or any King’s three releases for Shelter Records, ing is sweet. A truly great album done truly
generation. Any blues enthusiast or guitar Leon Russell’s Tulsa-based label. In fact, A true hidden classic! well.”
aficionado would have him ranked high on when Russell first formed Shelter, he re- Somehow this 1961 Reprise title seems
their list of all-time greats. He was a guitar portedly did so partly to play out his vision to have escaped the audiophile must- Music = 11/11; Sound = 10/11
hero before there was “Guitar Hero”. of recording one of his favorites, Freddie have list. It’s a true hidden classic and Mark Schlack, www.musicangle.com
Getting Ready... was King’s first of three King. an incredibly warm recording. The small One of the all-time great urban blues re-
releases for Shelter Records, Leon Rus- King’s output on Texas Cannonball in- combo setting really allows these two cords and the best-seller in the famed
sell’s Tulsa-based label. In fact, when Rus- cludes brilliant covers of songs by How- heavyweights to shine. The mood is laid- Delmark catalog. Hoodoo Man Blues
sell first formed Shelter, he reportedly did lin’ Wolf, Lowell Fulson, Leon Russell, Bill back and down-home. Accompanying is so full of bravado and snap it’ll make
so partly to play out his vision of recording Withers and Elmore James. musicians include trumpeter Gerald Wil- you feel tough just listening to it. Not all
one of his favorites, Freddie King. Backing artists include many musicians son, pianist Ernie Freeman, bassist Ralph of the Delmark titles were recorded very
Recorded in October 1970 at the TER-MAR who played with Eric Clapton in the 1970s. Hamilton and drummer Jim Miller. Roots well, but this one certainly was. And at 45
Chess Studios in Chicago and released in Clapton has stated many times over that was recorded at the often underrated or RPM, this now stands as the undisputed
1971, Getting Ready... is proof positive Freddie King was among his chief influ- forgotten Radio Recorders in Hollywood, definitive version. Hoodoo Man Blues,
that King was the man and that Shelter ences. Supporting musicians include Leon California. The studio, built in 1929, was which features Buddy Guy on guitar, is not
Records was one cool label. The record Russell on piano, Carl Radle and Donald one of the truly great - and great-sounding only Junior Wells’ first LP appearance, it’s
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on the record, “Living On The Highway”. gan. LP = AAPP 6057 ............................$25.00 reissued 45s by Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy
Rogers was the first artist to record for Williamson, Howlin’ Wolf, Jimmy Reed, El-
Acoustic Sounds’ own APO Records label Recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis in more James, etc., but virtually no one had
and the first to appear in concert at Acous- February 1972. tried to capture the Chicago blues sound
tic Sounds’ Blue Heaven Studios. Texas Cannonball is among the first titles Want more Ben Webster? free of the limitations of juke box/airplay
Getting Ready... is among the first titles to be pressed at Acoustic Sounds’ Quality promotion. Hoodoo Man Blues went a long
to be pressed at Acoustic Sounds’ Quality Record Pressings. There’s more where this came from! Flip to way in the popularization of real Chicago
Record Pressings. LP = AAPB 8913 ............................$25.00 page 15 for Ben Webster’s Verve outings, blues and of Junior Wells.
LP = AAPB 8905 ............................$25.00 not to mention Quality Record Pressings LP = AAPB 034-45 ........................$50.00
recent incarnation of a trademark Webster (two 45-RPM LPs)
recording, Gentle Ben, on page 10.
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