Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On Gets Definitive Sound Series Audiophile Vinyl Reissue

Interscope Capitol Records’ Definitive Sound Series is adding one of Marvin Gaye’s most beloved albums to its growing audiophile vinyl catalog. Let’s Get It On is the next DSS release, arriving July 17 as a limited-edition AAA 180g high-definition vinyl One Step pressing.

The release is available now for pre-order and is limited to 3,000 individually numbered copies. It is priced at $110, which puts it right in line with the rest of the DSS series and squarely in premium audiophile vinyl territory. Nobody is confusing this with a casual $29.99 reissue you grab while pretending you only came into the record store for sleeves, or that ninth copy of Disintegration you hid in the classical bins between well-worn copies of Khachaturian’s Symphony No. 3 that nobody has touched since the Carter administration.

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An All Analog One Step Pressing of Let’s Get It On

The Definitive Sound Series edition of Let’s Get It On has been mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering from the original analog master tapes. The record is pressed on Neotech VR900-D2 180g high-definition vinyl at Record Technology, Inc., with the One Step process handled by Dorin Sauerbier.

That AAA chain matters. In an era when “audiophile” can mean everything, nothing, or merely thicker cardboard, this release is being positioned around source, mastering, plating, pressing, and packaging. The One Step process eliminates multiple plating stages used in conventional vinyl manufacturing, with the goal of preserving more detail, depth, and immediacy from the lacquer to the finished record.

The package includes a heavyweight tip-on gatefold jacket, a custom-designed slipcase using the original album artwork, and a certificate of authenticity detailing the mastering, plating, and pressing chain.

Not Cheap, But Not Out of Line for This Category

At $110, Let’s Get It On lands in the same range as other Definitive Sound Series titles, which generally sell between $100 and $125 per copy. Existing DSS releases have included The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, Beck’s Morning Phase, Lionel Richie’s Can’t Slow Down, Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song, blink-182’s Enema of the State, Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, and A Perfect Circle’s Mer de Noms.

That pricing is not inexpensive, but it is also not unusual for the current premium One Step market. Mobile Fidelity’s UltraDisc One-Step releases, which helped define this category for many collectors, commonly sell for around $100 to $125 depending on the title and format. The comparison is useful because both approaches are aimed at listeners who care about mastering chain, pressing quality, packaging, and limited availability as much as the album itself.

In other words, this is not a reissue for everyone. It is for Marvin Gaye collectors, serious soul and R&B listeners, and vinyl buyers who want a premium pressing of a foundational album and are willing to pay for it.

Why Let’s Get It On Still Matters

Originally released in August 1973 on Motown’s Tamla label, Let’s Get It On marked a major shift in Marvin Gaye’s career. Coming after What’s Going On and Trouble Man, the album moved away from overt social commentary and into something more intimate, sensual, spiritual, and emotionally exposed.

The title track became one of Gaye’s defining recordings, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling soul album of 1973. Alongside the title track, the album includes “Please Don’t Stay (Once You Go Away),” “If I Should Die Tonight,” “Come Get to This,” “Distant Lover,” “You Sure Love to Ball,” and “Just to Keep You Satisfied.”

The estate of Marvin Gaye framed the release around that same idea, noting that Gaye “created music that was deeply personal, yet universally understood,” and that Let’s Get It On remains one of his most celebrated works.

The Bottom Line

Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On is exactly the kind of title that makes sense for the Definitive Sound Series: culturally important, vocally rich, beautifully arranged, and capable of rewarding a better mastering and pressing chain.

At $110, this DSS One Step edition is not an impulse buy. But compared with MoFi’s UltraDisc One-Step releases and other premium audiophile vinyl offerings, the price sits where the market already lives. The real question is whether the mastering, pressing quality, and all analog chain deliver enough to justify the premium.

For collectors who love Marvin Gaye, classic Motown, and properly executed AAA vinyl, this one is going to be hard to ignore.

Where to pre-order: $110 at Motown Records (ships July 24, 2026)

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