Hot Stamper Pressings of Top Quality Jazz Recordings Available Now
It Could Happen to You badly needed to be mastered with some tubes in the chain, but that didn’t happen. We’ve written a fair amount on that subject, and you can find more here.
It’s another case of an OJC with zero tubey magic. You might as well be playing the CD. I would bet money it sounds just like this record. Maybe even better!
I suppose if you have a super-tubey phono stage, preamp or amp (like the Mac 30 you see below), you might be able to supply some of the Tubey Magic missing from this pressing, but then all your properly mastered records wouldn’t sound right, now would they?
The OJC pressing of this album is obviously better suited to the old school audio systems of the 60s and 70s than the modern systems of today. These kinds of records used to sound good on those older systems, and I should know, I had an old school stereo and some of the records I used to think sounded good back in the day don’t sound too good to me anymore (although this one never did).
For a more complete list of those records, click here.
We play mediocre-to-bad sounding pressings so that you don’t have to, a public service from your record-loving friends at Better Records.
You can find this one in our hall of shame, along with others that — in our opinion — are best avoided by audiophiles looking for hi-fidelity sound.
Some of these records may have passable sound but the music is too weak to be worthwhile. These are also records you can safely avoid.
We also 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.
Further Reading
- New to the blog? Start here
- What exactly are Hot Stamper pressings?
- Record collecting for audiophiles from A to Z
TRACK LISTING
A1 Do It the Hard Way 2:57
A2 I’m Old Fashioned 5:00
A3 You’re Driving Me Crazy 2:52
A4 It Could Happen to You 2:48
A5 My Heart Stood Still 3:24
B1 The More I See You 3:01
B2 Everything Happens to Me 5:01
B3 Dancing on the Ceiling 3:05
B4 How Long Has This Been Going On 4:06
B5 Old Devil Moon 2:54
Credits
Bass – George Morrow, Sam Jones
Drums – “Philly” Joe Jones, Dannie Richmond
Piano – Kenny Drew
Trumpet, Vocals – Chet Baker
Notes
Original released 1958