Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Steely Dan Available Now
One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stampers he purchased recently:
Hey Tom,
Expectations met and exceeded! This Royal Scam sounds amazing. Granted, my current copy was an MCA repressing, but this one totally crushes it and THEN SOME.
Thanks, Tom. I will be a return customer. I’m a believer!!
-kj
Dear kj,
And then some is right.
The MCA pressings are not worth the vinyl they are made from.
No early Dan album has ever sounded particularly good on that label with the exception of Gaucho, which originally came out on MCA after ABC merged with MCA.
Consider taking our moderately helpful advice regarding which pressings tend to win our shootouts.
Royal Scam should sound its best this way: