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Reviews and Commentaries for Bridge Over Troubled Water
One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stampers he purchased recently
Hey Tom,
That latest S&G album — BOTW — is absofuckinglutely blowing my mind tonight. Wow. Those deep horns (?) blasting at times (end of Keep the Customer Satisfied, chorus of Why Don’t You Write Me, end of The Boxer… whole thing is hopping and dancing with huge beautiful sound. Hard to sit down!!
The power of those horns is exactly what I was telling you about – they cannot be reproduced properly until you have speakers with dynamic drivers large enough to play the full weight of the brass.
TP
We discuss the idea of Big Speakers in this boilerplate commentary all over the site:
Let’s face it, this is a big speaker record. It requires a pair of speakers that can move air with authority below 250 cycles and play at fairly loud levels. If you don’t own speakers that can do that, this record will never really sound the way it should.
It’s the kind of recording that caused me to pursue Big Stereo Systems driving Big Dynamic Speakers for as long as I can remember. You need a lot of piston area to bring this recording to life, and to get the size of all the instruments to match their real life counterparts.
For that you need big speakers in big cabinets, the kind I’ve been listening to for more than forty years. (My last small speaker was given the boot around 1974 or so and I have never looked back.)
To tell you the truth, the Big Sound is the only sound that I can enjoy. Anything less is just not for me.
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