More of the Music of Simon and Garfunkel
This pressing is the poster boy for muddy sound.
Naturally, it has to be one of the worst sounding versions of the album ever made.
It was mastered by Jack Hunt, a man we know to be responsible for some of the thickest, dullest, most dead MoFi crimes against good sound from their shameful catalog.
(The CBS Half-Speed is actually quite good by the way.)
Our Pledge of Service to You, the Discriminating Audiophile
We play mediocre-to-bad sounding pressings so that you don’t have to, a free service from your record-loving friends at Better Records.
We have an audiophile record hall of shame for records that were marketed to audiophiles with claims of superior sound. If you’ve spent much time on this blog, you know that these records are some of the worst sounding pressings we have ever had the misfortune to play.
We routinely put them in our Hot Stamper shootouts, head to head with the vintage records we offer. We are often more than a little surprised at just how bad an “audiophile record” can sound and still be considered an “audiophile record.”
If you own any of these so-called audiophile pressings, let us send you one of our Hot Stamper LPs so that you can hear it for yourself in your own home, on your own system. Every one of our records is guaranteed to be the best sounding copy of the album you have ever heard or you get your money back.
To learn more about records that sound dramatically better than any Half-Speed mastered title ever made (with one exception, John Klemmer’s Touch; we still can’t beat that one), please go to our:
Here is our breakdown of the best and worst Half-Speed mastered records we have auditioned over the years.