Mayorga & McBroom Growing Up In Hollywood Town 1980 Sheffield Lab 13 D2D Vinyl

Description: Lincoln Mayorga & Amanda McBroom . Growing Up In Hollywood Town. Direct To Disc Lacquer Cutting For Audiophile Performance. Grammy Nomination For Engineering Excellence. Translucent Vinyl (when held up to bright light). Item Details Manufactured in: USA Recorded: March 25-27 1980 At Sheffield Lab Studios Culver City, CA Direct Lacquer Cut By: Mike Reese And Lois Walker Original Issue: 1980 This Issue: 1980 Label: Sheffield Lab 13 Runout Deadwax Matrix Numbers: Side 1: (etch:) SL41-3-M + (stamp:) SLM (etch:) + Side 2: (etch:) SL42-7-M (1) + (stamp:) SLM (etch:) + Was bought new by this seller many years ago and now offered from his private collection (you have absolutely known provenance). Has had just a few plays only on an expertly setup high-end audiophile turntable, arm, and cartridge. Has never been exposed to heat or tobacco smoke and always stored vertically in a specially designed record cabinet (Rackit brand) to prevent warpage. All vinyl sides are cleaned on a VPI HW-16.5 record cleaner. I use the Audio Intelligent "One-Step" formula that requires no rinsing and leaves no residue. It is alcohol free and uses enzyme agents to remove pressing mold-release compounds, fungi & bacteria, finger oils, and many other environmental contaminants. Made with laboratory-grade pure water(50X purer than distilled water). I neutralize residual static charge from both vinyl and new inner sleeve with a Milty Zerostat. I wear nitrile surgical gloves while cleaning and play testing to avoid any chance of transferring finger oils to the vinyl. Very sensitive play testing was performed straight off my Ayre P-5xe fully balanced phono preamp over Sennheiser HD 600 headphones using a Schiit Audio Valhalla 2 tube headphone amp fitted with NOS Soviet Voskhod matched tubes (see last photo). Track list For track listings, please see my attached record label photographs. I take close-ups under photo lamps so you can see nearly everything I describe in the jacket grading. After cleaning I use very bright light and close visual inspection on each side to assign "visual-only" grades. However, I always perform play testing with thorough coverage on high resolution equipment to assign play grades. Grading Details Note: Grading LPs by text characters is subjective and at best are only a guide as no two used records are of exactly the same quality. I do not use "EX" grades as my VG+ is right below "NM-." I never sell a "G" play grade and very rarely ever sell a "VG" play grade. Please, refer to both my photo evidence and detailed descriptions to judge by YOUR OWN grading standards. Questions are always welcome. Play quality is personally most important to me so vinyl visual qualities are separately graded and described in detail for your complete assessment. Outer Jacket Inspection/grading: (Front Face/Rear Face) VG++/VG The front face is visually very clean looking with no rub wear at corners and mostly smooth satin gloss finish. The only thing that keeps it from NM is a dulling of the satin finish at the top center and along the spine edge. The rear face has the start of ring wear at the top and bottom. The surface also has color-breaking finish wear from sliding adjacent albums against it in the shelving. My very bight/white photo lamps amplify that wear in my photo and it is much less noticeable in person (much more like VG+). Vinyl Visual Inspection/Grading: (Side 1/Side 2) NM/NM Both labels do have LAST protective vinyl wear prevention treatment stickers on them. I usually treated my new vinyl with LAST before the very first play. Both vinyl sides looked visually near-perfect. Play Testing/Grading: (Side 1/Side 2) NM-/NM Extensive play testing was performed after visual inspection (continuous written notes were taken). I listen to the beginning, middle, and end of each track for a few minutes on each needle drop. When the track width is noticeably greater I take more play samples to get good coverage. I also listen to all lead-in, lead-out and transition grooves between each track. Some tracks get played all the way through if I digitize my favorites to 96k/24-bit WAV files for archiving. That allows me to go back and re-check some of my notes on digital playback in ProTools. Here is rundown of each side from those notes. Side 1 Play The center hole seemed slightly tight when placing the record onto my platter. T1 is a long track requiring more play samples. Noticed only a few very low volume HF ticks in the last seconds at end. T2 was a very hot cut (0.0dBFS peaks) instrumental with zero vinyl noise on all play samples. On T3 I noticed some very soft LF "thumps" in the first 15-30 seconds or so during the low volume track start. They disappeared as soon as the music volume increased. Was not sure if those soft thumps were in the recording or pressing. After grading the side I went back under strong light looking all around the start of T3 and found a 1/4" light surface scuff I didn't see on first visual inspection. It is possible that was the cause of those soft thump noises. I recorded T4 because it was so impressive and it reached very high peak levels. Zero noise on that whole track recording. T5 had some very impressing reproduction of percussion that sounded totally real. Also no vinyl noise. The whole side was averaged out to NM but I felt I needed to add a minus for the soft "thump noise" at the start of T3. Side 2 Play S2 has only 4 tracks with T1 and T3 the longest and I took more play samples on those. T1 was another very hot cut with zero noise. T2 was another instrumental also with zero vinyl noise. T3 was also cut hot and perfect. T4 was a nice smooth jazz track with perfect vinyl. This side was so impressive for audiophile and pressing performance I just had to add a plus to the grade making it NM+. The multi-microphone mixing and direct cut recording was a triumph on this Sheffield release. Packaging Records are placed outside the jacket to protect against seam splitting. Original inner sleeves (if still present) are included separately. All records will be placed into new MFSL-style "rice paper" plastic sleeves. Any original sleeves may be holding onto some dust and if paper lined could even be abrasive. This will keep vinyl surfaces clean and well protected during shipping and ultimately during buyer usage. Outer jacket is contained in a new clear polyethylene protective sleeve. Sent in high quality record mailer with cardboard stiffeners and all corners double-taped. Shipping Shipping will be via USPS Media Mail for a flat charge of $4.75 per single album sale. eBay keeps raising the rates for Media Mail but I still don't pass all of that or any costs for shipping materials on to the buyer. I do try to reduce additional costs for my customers. A combined shipping discount is available on multiple sales completed on the same day ($4.75 plus $0.50 for each additional LP). If you do buy more than one LP on the same daydo not pay immediately but wait for my all-combined with the discount applied to your total.eBay does give you the option to "Request an invoice from the buyer," but this option is not available on the eBay mobile app. A discount for the combined items will show on that invoice. Then, once payment is received, the items will ship.

Price: 17 USD

Location: El Dorado Hills, California

End Time: 2025-02-07T17:37:55.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.75 USD