More of the Music of Franz Schubert
Looking to pick up a Hot Stamper on your own?
Easy — all the best Decca copies in our shootout were mastered by Ted Burkett and were incribed with the stampers 5G/7G.
I suppose it’s only fair to point out that all the worst copies had those same stampers.
There were a few others as well — it was quite a big shootout — but most of those ended up in the middle of the pack.
And here you thought I was actually being helpful.
But we are being helpful. We’re sharing with you an important truth.
Stamper numbers only tell part of the story, and they can be very misleading, in the same sense that a little knowledge is sometimes a dangerous thing.
To know what a record sounds like you have to play it.
This is a subject near and dear to us here at Better Records, and that has been the case for many decades.
We discuss it at length in a commentary you may have seen on the site called the book of Hot Stampers.
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