How come record stores always charge high for audiophile pressings?

99% of record stores play records on low-fi equipment, yet they all know the value of audiophile pressings.. Am I the only one who finds this a bit ironic?

 

No..

 

Hearing LPs played in record stores can be excruciating. It can sound like a dirty stylus on a dirty LP played back through PA speakers. Not precisely the ideal way to sell LPs off the turntable. I always loved the weird planets-aligned days working in a CD store when most things we played sold as it was playing so we had to turn it off.

 

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I would imagine most indie stores today play beater copies. I doubt they are throwing the latest MFSL on the Crosley.

 

Most records stores I've been to aren't playing junk on junky turntables. Sometimes you may be in one and they're testing out a record that may look bad. But hey, let's get angry at the little shops that are barely breaking even because they're not as snooty as their rich customers.