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  1. Ron Resnick

    Michael Hobson Interview: Nothing but the Truth

    Please enjoy my interview with Michael Hobson, Founder of Classic Records, on October 14, 2022. Please subscribe to the What's Best Forum channel on YouTube.
  2. Ron Resnick

    Michael Hobson Auctions His Classic Records Archive of #1 Pressings

    Michael Hobson, Founder of Classic Records, is auctioning his entire personal archive of #1 numbered records: MICHAEL HOBSON ARCHIVES NUMBER 1 The enclosed list represents the entirety of my personal Classic Records Archive #1 numbered copies accumulated from the start of Classic Records in...
  3. Ron Resnick

    Hobson Meets Kassem: The Story of Classic Records

    Michael Hobson, the founder of Classic Records, recorded with Chad Kassem, the founder and owner of Acoustic Sounds, a video to chronicle for themselves, for us and for posterity their history and collaboration together. The discussion documents their respective roles in re-issuing on vinyl...
  4. Ron Resnick

    High Resolution Technologies Stage 8 Loudspeakers

    I had a wonderful afternoon today at the home of Michael Hobson, who was playing for me a wide variety of Classic Records 45rpm reissues. Michael Hobson, who founded Classic Records in 1994, is somebody to whom each of us very likely owes a large debt of gratitude. When most people were...
  5. Ron Resnick

    Comparing Reissued LPs to Analogue Productions Tapes

    We often enjoy comparing and contrasting the sound qualities of original LPs to reissued LPs, and one reissue label's product to another reissue label's product (e.g., Classic Records versus Analogue Productions; DCC Compact Classics versus Mobile Fidelity), and different versions of the same...
  6. Ron Resnick

    Best LP Reissue of “Bridge Over Troubled Water”

    Who has compared different vinyl reissues of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”? How does the new MoFi “one step” 45rpm reissue compare to the Classic Records reissues?
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    FS: Classic Records RCA Living Stereo 180 Gram LP Reissues- Large Lot- Many sealed

    Sell individually or $1500 for the lot. Please PM me for more information. Classic Records 180 gm classical reissues Elgar*, Brahms* - Pierre Monteux - London Symphony* – Enigma Variations / Haydn Variations, Classic Records – LSC-2418, sealed Sibelius* - London Symphony*, Alexander...
  8. Ron Resnick

    New Analogue Productions Vinyl Reissue of Dave Brubeck - Time Out

    Has anyone compared this Analogue Productions vinyl reissue at 33 rpm to the various Classic Records vinyl reissues from 1995, 2000 and 2008?

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