Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of The Beatles Available Now
Below we discuss listening to Baby You’re a Rich Man from side two of the German MMT.
If you own a copy of the album, play yours and listen for what we describe in this track by track breakdown.
For those of you interested in digging deeper into the sound of scores of other titles, our listening in depth commentaries have track breakdowns for some of the better-known albums we’ve done shootouts for.
Baby You’re A Rich Man
This track is Demo Disc Quality on the best Hot Stamper pressings. As I was playing this song for the shootout, the thought occurred to me that if I had one track to play to someone to demonstrate what a thrill it is to have a big, expensive stereo, it would be hard to pick a better song than Baby You’re A Rich Man.
The only other one that occurs to me off the top of my head is Sergio Mendes’ For What It’s Worth off of Stillness.
The sound is wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling and big as life. You can’t get that sound with screens and you can’t get it with smaller speakers and their smaller drivers.
Once you’ve heard that sound it’s hard to get too excited about any other.
Magical Mystery Tour checks off a large number of our favorite boxes: