Michael Fremer visits Chad Kassem's Acoustic Sounds Inc in Kansas - including a tour of the Quality Record Pressings (QRP) record plant.

Of interest also is some footage of the first re-use of TML mastering equipment since Doug Sax's The Master Lab was acquired by Acoustic Sounds.

Also video of the Charlie Musselwhite concert at Blues Masters at the Crossroads weekend in Salina KS.

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Enjoy The Music tours the QRP plant in Salina, Kansas - also featuring a tour of the Acoustic Sounds warehouse with owner, the inimitable Chad Kassem.

QRP is a divison of Acoustic Sounds, which was founded by Chad Kassem in 1986, specialising in audiophile LPs, SACDs, & high-end hifi equipment (including being the US distributor of SME).
Analogue Productions (interesting spelling) record label, a re-issue & recording company, is another Chad Kassem / Acoustic Sounds division.

Interesting comparison with the (much larger) Furnace Record Pressing plant in Virginia (see Michael Fremer factory tour).
eg. Furnace's super-efficiency conscious setup & double-racked / tall warehousing, etc.



(Annoying Enjoy The Music banner across the bottom of the video. And hand-held microphones look so inconvenient & 'old-school' )

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Chad Kassem is always worth a listen to.

Is it any surprise that this laid-back dude with the VERY Southern drawl, is from Louisiana?

And, of course, he's a Tony Joe White fan

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2017(?) PS Audio 'Copper Magazine' interview with Chad Kassem.

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Check out the video at the end of this interview if you're a Doors fan - the making of the complete re-issue of all the albums of The Doors, on 45rpm dble LPs, from start to finish.

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