Hot Stamper Pressings of Living Stereo Titles Available Now
Flamenco meets Jazz in this extraordinary Living Stereo all analog recording from 1958 (only the second copy to hit the site in years).
Ed Begley is the engineer here and he knocked this one out of the park. The sound is shockingly real – proof positive that the cutting systems of the day are capable of much better sound than many audiophiles might think. If more evidence is what you’re after, see here and here
Need a refresher course in Tubey Magic after playing too many modern recordings or remasterings? This record is overflowing with it.
Side One
Track One
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- Tubey and 3-D
- Jumping out
- Lots of room and depth and width
- Dynamic guitar
Track Three
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- Rich and present
- Extending high and low
Side Two
Track Three
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- Tubey and 3-D
- Midrange very wide and open too
Track One
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- Jumping out
- Super rich and full
- Top end detail
- HTF – Hard to Fault
Another amazing recording from the 50s, brought to you by your vinyl-loving friends at Better Records
- The three-dimensional space and Tubey Magic are jaw-dropping on this copy.
- An amazing Webster Hall Living Stereo all analog recording from 1958 – nothing else sounds like it.
- It’s yet another recording we’ve discovered with (potentially) excellent sound.
- When you’ve played as many Living Stereo titles as we have (250+ and counting), you’re bound to run into this kind of Demo Disc sound from time to time – it’s what makes record collecting fun.
- It’s an amazing find, the kind of record we live for here at Better Records.
Here It Comes
You know what’s unusual about these notes?
They’re the kind of notes we’ve never written for any Heavy Vinyl reissue, even for the one that won our shootout not long ago.
They are the kind of notes that make it clear to us what a sham the modern Heavy Vinyl pressing tends to be, even those that are done right.
No modern record we’ve ever played has ever had anything even approaching this kind of big as life sound, and we doubt one ever will.
Records like this vintage vinyl pressing are thrilling in a way that very, very few records ever are.
Surprisingly, many of the most thrilling records we’ve ever played came from the same decade this record came from: the 60s.
Once you hear sound like this, you are not likely to forget it.
It sets a standard that modern remastered records simply cannot meet.
Hey, want to find your own top quality copy?
Consider taking our moderately helpful advice concerning the pressings that consistently win our Hot Stamper shootouts.
This record has always sounded its best this way: