Demo and Test LPs

It is too late for any beginners to collect prize LP. Famous LPs at decent prices have all dried up and you have to pay unreasonable price for quality LPs.

We found it bizarre that even beginners are looking for LPs on this or that list. Now paying a hundred USD for a LP almost becomes a norm. In the public forums beach-goers and dealers exchanging sensational sky-high price bids with pasted bidding information to attract attention. Or you have a lost bidder licking his wounds and crying, while LP sellers and the onlookers write him messages to place a higher bid next time. Absurd, we call this!

We would not bother to foretell if this is a Vinyl Bubble. On a close watch it is not difficult to find that only a handful of people is regularly bidding very high price LPs from a handful of sellers. There is a rising trend of complaints on the 'mint' or 'near mint' quality LPs sold to other common bidders. It is no longer a secret that many LP dealers in PRC are trying to cash their high price items by dumping them to Hong Kong.

There are many good quality LPs available in the market. In the past we remain silent as we do not want to add fuel to fire on rising LP price.

After some rounds of talk with hobbyists, LP dealers and users, we come up with our choice of LPs which comply with the following criteria:

1. There is an abundant supply in the market and the price of the LP will not shoot up even if more people buy them;

2. The price of the LP should be around USD5.0 or less, perhaps you have to pay 1 or 2 dollars more for a good copy;

3. There must at least be one goodie in the LP in terms of sound and performance.

Note: We have stockpiled a very large number of the LPs we recommend now or in future. We reserve our right to sell our stock in hand anytime to make a profit when we find the price is too high to be true. We shall remove any item from our choice if things went out of control!


		Elisa Chan is a singer. She has the voice and the rhythm to deliver a demanding song. With Elisa on board Joseph Koo the composer has more notes to write a good jingo. He made two classics - Star Dust Starry Night and Tonite. 'Best Production' award to this album, it sounds great!

		This album hurls Roman Tang to stardom. Overnight he became a household name, and more importantly, his style gained the acceptance of the Hong Kong people. The title song hit the number one song in the Hong Kong pop song chart the week it was released to the public. Here I would like to pay tribute to Joe, my mentor of LP hunting. He reminded me of the importance of this album: "No one should miss Roman's performance of the Never Ending Love [side 1 track3]! "

		This is a sound track album. The movie, "Taking the Wrong Bus", was produced in the Republic of China. It worked miracle with Hong Kong movie goers. The title song, Any Empty Wine Bottle for sale? also became a hit, and rightly so. Julie Sue was then a nobody, but eveybody was impressed. All titles good and listenable, this is rare for Cantonese and Mandarin pop records. If you do not like Please Follow Me, [side 2 track 2], please leave this forum, our choice is not for you.

		It is not important that you like or do not like Barbra Streisand. Buy one and enjoy the songs. All hit titles - Songbird, You Don't Bring Me Flowers, All in Love is Fair, Superman. Best Version of The Way We Were is here. I have bought USA and Japan versions, all sound inferior.

		Rumours was the Album of the Year in 1977 Grammy Award. Other entrants included Eagles' Hotel California. Actually, this is the best album of Fleetwood Mac. The music is good and most important it's really an audiophile album. There are many good songs like Dreams,Go your own way, Songbird, Chain, You make loving fun, and Oh Daddy. From the audiophile point of view, Dreams and Oh Daddy are very outstanding, especially Oh Daddy. It is not a fast song but the drum and guitar are so dynamic and full of energy. If your system cannot present the dynamics of this song, you really need to tune your system again. Martin's Choice

		You do not have this album, What is wrong with you?

		This album fits the criteria of our choice. It is still very cheap, for less than USD2.0 you may find a mint copy. And it contains a very important document. The title song, Lovers by the Mystic River, is widely regarded as the best lyric written by James Wong. His partner, Joseph Koo also made a good effort in coming up with a romantic melody. The title song has got an excellent production.