Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Paul McCartney Available Now
Back in 2016 we had this to say about a copy of the album we had just played:
This copy will put you front and center for the single greatest Paul McCartney recorded concert of all time.
In the final round of shootouts on both sides, this copy showed itself as clearly superior in terms of transparency and three-dimensionality, as well as having the most rock solid bottom end. To sum it up, my notes read “so real,” which is exactly what makes this copy THE one to have. This is Paul and his mates LIVE in your listening room like you have never heard them before.
This copy gave us the feeling that we were right there in the audience for the taping of this amazing performance. It made other copies sound like records — good records, but records nonetheless. This one has the IMMEDIACY of a live show, one which just happened to be fronted by one of the greatest performers in the history of popular music, Sir Paul McCartney.
We shootout this album about once a year, which means that many changes will have occurred to the stereo in the meantime. One of the qualities that we noticed this time around was how much like live music this album can be when the pressings have one specific quality — tons of bass.
Live music, especially live music heard in a club, tends to have plenty of bass. It’s the sonic quality that’s by far the most difficult to recreate in the home.
When a record manages to capture that kind of “live” low end energy, it really helps make the connection between the sound of live music and the sound coming out of your speakers.
As we have labored so often to make clear on the site, dynamic speakers with large woofers can put you in front of live musicians in a way that nothing else in our experience can.
This very copy makes the case for that proposition better than any we’ve played in a long time.
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