The Music of Sonny Rollins Available Now
Our last White Hot gold label mono pressing went for big bucks, 900 of them in fact.
Of course, a clean original goes for many times that, which is one reason you have never seen such a record on our site.
How much would we have to charge for a Hot Stamper pressing of an album we paid many thousands of dollars for?
Far more than our customers would be willing to pay us, that’s for sure.
You Say You Don’t Have Nine Hundred Bucks for This Album?
Try the DCC pressing from 1995.
The DCC Heavy Vinyl pressing is probably a decent enough record. I haven’t played it in many years, but I remember liking it back in the day.
It’s dramatically better than the 80s OJC, which, like many OJC pressings from that era, is thin, hard, tizzy up top and devoid of Tubey Magic.
(We have many reviews of OJC pressings for those who are interested. We created two sections for the label: one for the (potentially, it’s what Hot Stampers are all about) good sounding OJC pressings and one for the bad sounding ones.)
I would be surprised if the DCC Gold CD isn’t even better than their vinyl pressing.
They usually are.
Steve Hoffmann brilliantly mastered many classic albums for DCC. I much prefer DCC’s CDs to their records.
Their records did not have to fight their way through Kevin Gray’s opaque, airless, low-rez, modern-sounding (in the worst way) transistor cutting system, a subject we discuss in some depth here.
Side One
St. Thomas
You Don’t Know What Love Is
Strode Rode
Side Two
Moritat
Blue Seven
Further Reading