Hot Stamper Pressings of of the Music of Johannes Brahms Available Now
Apparently mastered with no regard to sound quality, this Decca SPA reissue is a mess.
How do we know that? We go out of our way to play every pressing we can get our hands on, even cheap reissues such as this. That’s our job. We play everything to find the best sounding records so you don’t have to.
And some of these cheap reissues win shootouts!
But you can’t guess which ones will. You have to play them to find out.
And that’s how we know that some of them are good, some of them are mediocre, and some, like this one, are just awful.
Want to be assured of getting good sounding pressings of the greatest classical recordings of all time?
Step right up and order anything classical or orchestral you see here, Every one of them is guaranteed to please.
We play mediocre-to-bad sounding pressings so that you don’t have to, a free 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, but the music is weak. 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
- Collecting better sounding records
- Best orchestral performances with top quality sound
- Well recorded classical albums from the core collection available now
