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Tier 1 (3 Referrals) — Reference Checks Field Guide : A designed PDF that teaches you to read a pressing the way the verdicts do. It walks the runout etchings and matrix codes, the grading scale and where it bends in practice, and the path a record takes from master tape to the copy in your hands. The groundwork under every edition, made to keep. If you have ever wanted to stop guessing in the shop, this is where it starts.
Tier 2 (8 Referrals) — Early Access to the Paid Tier : When the paid tier opens, you are in, comped and ahead of the wall. That means the full evidence dossier behind each verdict, the gray-zone work and the pressings that did not make the cut, and a seat at the quarterly listening session built around an interview with a mastering engineer or the people who made the record. The deeper half of Reference Checks, on the house, before it opens to anyone else.
Tier 3 (25 Referrals) — Your Record, Checked : Name a record you love and I take it through the Pressing Council, the same evidence-led process behind every edition. I trace the chain from master to lacquer to plant to digital, weigh the forks, and write you the verdict on the version that comes closest to what the recording is, with exactly what to look for when you go to buy it. It is the rarest thing this publication makes, reserved for the readers who brought the most people to the work. Checks are written in the order they are earned, so allow a few weeks.
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