Shout out for Better Records

My bull#&*t detector doesn't allow for the "hot stampers".

I just wanted to say that I am not at all closed minded. Some pressings always sound better than others. The information to determine this is generally available to everyone and is right there in the dead wax on the records. All of the major mastering houses put their logotypes in the dead wax. TML for The Mastering Lab, Van Gelder for Rudy Van Gelder, etc. Often the mastering engineers initials, or signature, is there as well. RL for Bob Ludwig, GK for Gilbert Kong, Bilbo for Denis Blackham, etc. Additionally, most records also encode the matrix number there as well. What irks me is not that I do not believe that some pressings are better than others, but that Tom has mystified the process and created this nebulous marketing term, "hot stamper" that has no real meaning beyond whatever he wants it to have. It plays on the ignorance of his buyers and does a disservice to the community by confusing rather than illuminating.