Dire Straits Making Movies LP 1980 orig. Japan 1st Pressing RJ-7690 NM

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                                                                        Dire Straits
                                                                     Making Movies
                                                 1980 Japanese  Pressing On Virgin Vinyl
                                       Inserted 2 Page Lyric Sheet in Japanese and English
                             Not missing an OBI strip, only the white label promo version had that

                                                                       Item Details
                                         Manufactured in: Tokyo, Japan by Nippon Phonogram
                                                                    Recorded: 1980
                                                                      Issued: 1980
                                            Pressing: First, (based on Discogs identifiers)
                                                                Label: Vertigo RJ-7690
                                                  Mastering by: Greg Calbi at Masterdisk
                                                      Runout Deadwax Matrix Numbers: 
                 Side 1: (all stamped:) ? ? 6359 034 A 1 1 1 ? ? P R /\ D ("D" backward)
                                          Side 2: (all stamped:) 6359 034 B 1 1 1 ? ?

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 because I liked the first 2 albums the
best. The handful of plays were only on an expertly setup high-end audiophile turntable, arm, and 
cartridge. It has never been exposed to heat or tobacco smoke and always stored vertically in a 
specially designed record cabinet (Rackit) to prevent warpage.

Side 1 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 spotted a dust spec on that 
side that was a bit resistant to my Decca record brush so I cleaned it. Side 2 was really dust free
so I did not clean that one.

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: Tunnel Of Love / Intro: The Carousel Waltz, Romeo And Juliet, Skateaway.
2: Expresso Love, Hand In Hand, Solid Rock, Les Boys.

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) Front/back surfaces all edges are perfect. The corners have 
the tiniest amount of rub wear as shown exactly in the photos. That's it.

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. 
The vinyl noise floor is very low as a result of the fanatical Japanese manufacturing quality control and 
pure vinyl formulations. Ticks when they occur are low in volume and pretty far apart. One of the very 
few I noticed was at the start of S1T2 but then nothing for a long time. This mastering has a spectacular 
sense of drive. For example, S2T1 (Espresso Love) was pushing the vinyl's cutting level to its limit but 
never sounded congested. For me it was my top pick and I was sure glad that my A2D converter has an 
analog soft limiter at its front end. That track seemed worth having the album all by itself. I was very
impressed with S1T1 too, which also had great drive but in its quieter passages there just wasn't any
vinyl noise to distract from that beautiful low level detail. This Japanese release could be the definitive 
pressing as it has a lush liquidly transparent audiophile clarity combined with kick-ass dynamics and 
quiet vinyl. 

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 may contain 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