Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Heart Available Now

Sonic Grade: D

No slam, no real weight and no truly deep bass, just that 50-plus-cycles stuff and barely any of that, mostly 60 and up if you’re lucky, and BLUBBERY.

Our good customer Roger wrote to tell me how much better he liked our $100 Hot Stamper of Little Queen compared to his CBS Mastersound Half-Speed Mastered LP.

As you can see from our old commentary, I used to actually think the Mastersound pressing was pretty good, with better extension on the top to help overcome this album’s typically dull, thick, opaque sound.

But that’s before I discovered the Hottest Stampers and how to clean them and play them, which fixes EVERYTHING and turns this album into a real Demo Disc.

9/7/2007

Hi Tom,

Hey, nice job on finding that Heart Little Queen Hot Stamper. I have never heard this recording with that kind of bass impact nor dynamics, which is what this record definitely needs.

Roger, it’s one of my favorite demo discs and/or test discs right now. The slam factor is amazing, but you also have delicate guitars and voices and ambience and all the rest. Who knew? The early stampers suck; it’s finding the right later copy that allowed me to hear what a great recording it really is.

The other pressings I have heard including the CBS half-speed only hint at what is on this record.

So true, played it myself, that’s why I’m so down on half-speeds.

Play any half-speed against that Heart record and the bass on the Heart will blow the half-speed out of the water.