Label: King Record Co.
Catalog Number: K38C 70010
Product Condition (Vinyl/ Jacket): M/ M
This auction is for the SEALED Japanese King Record Super Analog Disc 180g LP reissue of Decca's SXL 2195 - Mussorgsky's "Pictures At An Exhibition"  with Ernest Ansermet conducting L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
Michael Hobson, founder of Classic Records has been a rabid collector of Vinyl for over 30 years and has amassed a collection of over 30,000 LPs with many duplicates.  After years of holding on to extra copies to share with friends, Hobson has decided to allow some of his prized collection to be auctioned off on eBay.  Over the coming weeks, in addition to the Michael Hobson Archives we’ll be including collectible LPs from Hobson’s private collection including copies of reference original LP’s used for comparison when mastering Classic Records reissues at Bernie Grundman Mastering. 
Every copy will come with a hand initialed sticker (on outer protective sleeve) to assure authenticity.
Background on King Records Reissues
"The legendary King Record Company in Japan started in the 1970’s as a high quality reissue label.  The majority of its releases were licensed primarily from The Decca Record Company in London through Polydor KK (The Japanese Record Company that had rights to issue Decca titles in Japan).  In addition to having access to Decca’s amazing titles with superb sound quality, King Records was arguably one of, if not the first, audiophile reissue companies.  In fact, King Records had its own audiophile quality mastering system and custom cutting system they touted in literature included in each record.  The records were pressed at the legendary JVC pressing plant and are generally among the quietest pressings ever made.  The first reissues were pressed on high quality Regular Weight pressings from JVC.  At some point, King switched to 180g JVC pressings and rebranded their reissues under the moniker “The Super Analogue Disc” series.  The sound quality of these superb records is a revelatory and set a standard that very few reissue companies have approached thereafter.  The King Records reissue offered here is from my personal collection and with other titles formed a guide for the efforts the make Classic Records reissues decades later.  Highest Recommendation." ~Michael Hobson - founder Classic Records Inc.

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