CES 2013

Chad Kassem

John Atkinson  |  Jan 17, 2013

Over at T.H.E. Show, Acoustic Sounds' Chad Kassem proudly showed me the box and inserts for his new Bill Evans Waltz for Debby reissue, which will be released as a UHQR LP. Kassem's QRP pressing pant has acquired the rights to JVC's 30 year-old LP technology and each 200-gram UHQR pressing, with its flat profile, will be hand-pressed on a Finebilt press and hand-inspected. Back in the 1970s I was told by an EMI executive that that they could have pressed perfect LPs but people would never pay for it. Chad didn't seem to get the memo as he has invested a lot of money in producing LPs the way they should have been all along!

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Submitted by deckeda on January 18, 2013 - 3:45pm

Back in the 1970s I was told by an EMI executive that that they could have pressed perfect LPs but people would never pay for it.

That exec trained the current ones pretty well, if the Beatles reissues are any indication.

EMI = leaving money on the table

Go Chad, Go!

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