Hot Stamper Pressings Featuring the Violin
Superb Recordings with Jascha Heifetz Performing
Sonic Grade: F
An Audiophile Hall of Shame pressing and another Classic Records Classical LP badly mastered to the detriment of those lured by the promise of easy answers and quick fixes.
Classic remastered this title in the ’90s — of course they did, it’s clearly one of the better Heifetz recordings.
As expected, their version was awful, as bad as LSC 1903, 1992, 2129 and others too numerous to list.
It’s both aggressive and lacking in texture at the same time, the worst of both worlds.
Bernie’s cutting system is what I would call Low Resolution — the harmonics and subtleties of the sound simply disappear.
The world is full of them.
In these four words we can describe the sound of the average Classic Records pressing. If you have the Classic, do your own shootout. We guarantee any of our Hot Stamper pressings will murder theirs.
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