Hot Stamper Pressing of Miles’s Albums Available Now
One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stampers he purchased recently:
Hey Tom,
Listening to Kind Of Blue. Who needs an equipment upgrade with records like these?
Our reply:
So true!
It’s actually one of the common faults of audiophile thinking, present company excluded, that if you can make a record like KOB sound great, you must have a good stereo system.
The opposite is true; the real test is to get difficult to reproduce recordings to sound good, not easy to reproduce recordings.
If you want to test the limits of your system, here are some difficult to reproduce records that will allow you to do it.
And if you want to buy some records that sound great but are difficult to reproduce because you love or challenge, or for any other reason, these Hot Stamper pressings should do the trick.
Either way, KOB is killer, and the MoFi of it is a joke, but don’t tell this guy, who appears to be rather new to this whole “reviewing” thing. Watch it here. If you can stomach more than two minutes worth, you may be reading the wrong blog.
To quote the man himself, “I do a review of the best sounding copy’s [sic] of Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue. What are the copy’s [sic] you should own?
He actually does no such thing. He does not in fact review the best sounding copies, because he’s too clueless to even bother with the 70s Red Label pressings, some versions of which happen to be quite good.
Further Reading
- New to the Blog? Start here
- More on the subject of Half-Speed mastering
- Record collecting advice for audiophiles from A to Z
If you are still buying these remastered pressings, making the same mistakes that I was making before I knew better, take the advice of some of our customers and stop throwing your money away on Heavy Vinyl and Half-Speed mastered LPs.
At the very least let us send you a Hot Stamper pressing — of any album you choose — that can show you what is lacking on your copy of the album.
And if for some reason you disagree with us that our record sounds better than yours, we will happily give you all your money back and wish you the very best.