Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Cream Available Now

Sonic Grade: D

A Polydor Double LP mastered by Robert Ludwig.

The tonal balance is right on the money, but of course, because this is a compilation, it is made from copies of master tapes, not real master tapes themselves, so it will always have that blurry, smeary, recessed, flat, opaque, airless, sub-generation-tape sound. In short, it’s dubby.

Hey, that’s what we hear on most of the Heavy Vinyl we audition, too. Imagine that.