3 stories

The Vinyl Shelf

Record collecting focused on sound quality. Pressing comparisons, turntable setup without the myths, and recommendations from a working collection.

Original pressings aren’t automatically better. A former mix engineer explains when modern reissues win, when the origin...

A former mix engineer strips the mysticism out of turntable setup—alignment, tracking force, and the few adjustments tha...

A mix engineer’s personal desert-island vinyl list—ten albums chosen for the pressings that actually sound best, not the...