Music Direct’s Jim Davis and Partners to Open Vinyl Pressing Plant Next Year

 

Constructed from the ground up in Oxnard, California, Fidelity aims to be the country's "premier vinyl production facility."

 2023, Southern California will welcome a state-of-the-art pressing plant with Fidelity Record Pressing, Billboard can exclusively announce.Constructed from the ground up in Oxnard, Fidelity aims

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Come 2023, Southern California will welcome a state-of-the-art pressing plant with Fidelity Record Pressing, Billboard can exclusively announce.

Constructed from the ground up in Oxnard, Fidelity aims to be the country’s “premier vinyl production facility,” according to a release. To deliver on that promise, the 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 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.