Fidelity Record Pressing Launches Q1 2023

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A new vinyl pressing plant is being constructed from the ground up in Oxnard, California by Fidelity Record Pressing (Fidelity) who aims to make it this country’s “premier vinyl production facility.” In order to meet that claim, the new plant’s co-owners Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab and Music Direct’s Jim Davis partnered with vinyl engineers Rick and Edward Hashimoto, a father and son team with over 60 collective years of experience in pressing vinyl.

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab is a California-based label specializing in the production of reissued vinyl LPs among other physical formats and is owned by Music Direct, the world’s largest online retailer of high-end audio and audiophile music and accessories. Fidelity will become the future production home of all Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab vinyl releases.

The new plant will open with eight vinyl presses, all of which are manufactured by Nashville’s Record Pressing Machines, enabling Fidelity up to press up to 2 million LPs annually and working up to as many as 12 million annually as the facility grows. However, the focus of this new plant is NOT on quantity but quality.

This is truly great news. A new US based pressing plant owned and run by people who care about quality not quantity, with the capacity to help out with the current vinyl pressing capacity shortage and hopefully catch up on Mo-Fi’s proposed vinyl ultradisc releases.

For more details check out the news release at musicdirect.

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