Dire Straits Love Over Gold LP 1982 orig. Japan 1st Pressing 25PP-60 OBI NM

$

45

                                                                           Dire Straits
                                                                       Love Over Gold
                                               1982 Japanese  Pressing On Virgin Vinyl
                                     Inserted 4 Page Lyric Sheet in Japanese and English

                                                                       Item Details
                                         Manufactured in: Tokyo, Japan by Nippon Phonogram
                                                                    Recorded:: 1982
                                                                      Issued: 1982
                                                                Label: Vertigo 25PP-60
                                             Mastering by: Robert Ludwig at Masterdisk
                                             Lacquer cut at: Victor Company of Japan. Ltd.
                                                      Runout Deadwax Matrix Numbers: 
                                     Side 1: (all stamped:) V ? ? 6359 109 A 1 1 ? ? V W W x /\ C D
                                     Side 2: (all stamped:) G 6359 109 B 1 1 1 ? ? ? C

Was bought new by this seller many years ago and now offered from his private collection (you 
have absolutely known provenance). Played very few times 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) to prevent warpage.

Was cleaned on a VPI HW 16 with Audio Intelligent solutions and ultra-pure water rinse 
(50X purer than distilled water) before my pre-sale sound check. I wear nitrile surgical gloves 100% 
while photographing, 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 thru a Schiit Audio Valhalla 2 tube headphone amp fitted with 
Voskhod Soviet matched tubes (see last photo).

Track list
1: Telegraph Road, Private Investigations.
2: Industrial Disease, Love Over Gold, It Never Rains.

I never take "distant" photos nor the so-prevalent type with the LP sticking halfway out of the jacket. 
I take close-ups under photo lamps so you can see nearly everything I describe in the jacket grading. 
It is virtually impossible to know the true vinyl condition from any photograph. That takes very bright 
close visual inspection AND thorough coverage play testing on high resolution equipment.

Grading 
Note: record grading by text characters is subjective and does not fully describe quality 
levels. Please see photos and my detailed descriptions below.

Outer Jacket: NM (Near Mint) There is a very slight crease on the lower right corner as seen in the
photo. Otherwise the front jacket surface is like new. The jacket rear has some light rubbing wear 
on the left middle near the edge. It is much harder to see in person than my photograph because of the
bright light that was flooding it. There are very tiny rubbing wear marks on all 4 corners. There is the
faintest short rubbing hairline in the middle of the bottom edge  

Vinyl: NM- (Near Mint Minus) Surface visuals were inspected under high intensity halogen light.
The minus is for the LAST vinyl preservative stickers. I always applied LAST vinyl wear prevention 
treatment before the initial play. Both sides are visually perfect with no traces or jacket insert/removal 
rubbing wear, hairlines, or traces. Spindle holes have no wear as seen in the photos. There are no 
tonearm post rubbing "scribble marks" around the label spindle holes. I played all tracks and transition 
grooves between tracks, advancing the tone arm about 1/4" at a time listening for a few minutes at each 
drop. Some tracks were played fully thru when digitizing my favorites into 192k/24-bit WAV files. I found 
no negative attributes at all. The total listening quality has all the hallmarks of Japanese pressings: dead
quiet, high dynamic range, and a lush liquidly transparent audiophile clarity. The title track is my favorite
for both musical performance and audio quality. Apart from the label's LAST stickers, I would rate the vinyl
surfaces and groove quality at NM.

Packaging
Record will be placed outside the jacket to protect against seam splitting.
Original inner half circle sleeve and lyric sheet are included separately.
Record has been placed into a new genuine MFSL Original Master "rice paper" sleeve, as the 
original sleeve contains dust. This will keep vinyl surface clean during shipping and ultimate 
buyer usage.Outer jacket is contained in a new clear polyethylene protective sleeve.
Sent in good quality record mailer with cardboard stiffeners.

Shipping
Shipping will be via USPS Media Mail for a flat charge of $3.98 per single album sale.
A combined shipping discount is available on multiple sales completed within 5 business days 
($3.98 plus $0.50 for each additional LP). If you intend to buy more than one LP do not pay immediately
but wait for my all-combined invoice. A discount for the combined items will show on that invoice. 
Then, once payment is received, the items will ship.