Up For Auction: London Blue Back Classical / Audiophile Stereo / FFSS / Hot Stamper? / TAS Listed / LP ~ In Spectacular Condition!!!

London Records, 12 inch, 33 1/3 RPM FFSS Stereo LP, Cat. #CS 6036, The label is red and all printing is silver-gold. The label finish is semi-matte. The ffss logo, circled by FULL FREQUENCY STEREOPHONIC SOUND, is at 12:00 o'clock. "Made in England" is printed at the label-bottom following the label-edge and is centered. "ALL RIGHTS OF THE MANUFACTURE AND THE OWNER OF THE RECORDED WORK RESERVED UNAUTHORIZED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THIS RECORD PROHIBITED is printed following the label-edge from 9:00 to 3:00. This is a rigid platter without the raised lead-in groove and raised label. A circle is stamped onto the disq radiating 1/4th inch out from the spindle-hole. A recessed concentric-ring is stamped into the disq 1/8th inch in-board of the record-edge. The record-edge is beveled. Matrix #'s are located at 6 O'clock , in the trail out - dead wax. Side one Matrix # ZAL 3625-1K / Side 2 Matrix # ZAL 3626-2K.

This LP Features: Ernest Ansermet conducting L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romanade. Titled: "Rimsky-Korsakov [Christmas Eve (suite) - Sadko (Musical Picture), Flight Of The Bumble-Bee (from Tzar Saltan) and Dubinushka]".

If you're not familiar with this Audiophile Format, here's some additional information: " In the Fall of 1958 London introduced their ffss FULL FREQUENCY STEREOPHONIC SOUND records to the US market. . Recordings on this label / in this series / are coveted among audiophiles, and thus much of the vinyl in this series includes expensive, hard-to-find records in the second-hand market. Pressed on a high-fidelity, rigid platter, delivering true audiophile sound quality. The most desired of which were released between 1958-1962. The record jacket has a light-blue back - thus the term "Blue-Back" was coined.

The Absolute Sound (often referred to as "TAS") is an American monthly magazine which reviews audiophile-oriented sound-reproduction and recording equipment and recordings, and comments on various music-related subjects. It was founded in 1973 by Harry Pearson, who remains the Chairman of its Editorial Advisory Board and regularly contributes a feature entitled HP's Workshop. The magazine is published by Absolute Multimedia, Inc., of Austin, Texas. / Harry Pearson - often referred to as HP, is known amongst the HiFi fraternity to have "Golden Ears" - the ability to hear very acutely and able to distinguish tiny differences between different components in the music playing HiFi systems reviewed by him and his colleagues".

The Vinyl is Near Mint (9-9.5 of 10) in condition. With Original London Inner Sleeve. The cover is very nice. The only issue to report is some very slight corner softening and very light ring wear. Nothing serious on this 50 year old LP!!.

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