Hot Stamper Pressings of Soundtrack Recordings Available Now
It’s 2024 and we’ve just finished a big shootout for the album, our first since 2009.
Here is what the best copy sounded like, amazing in every way.
Here is our listing for a very good sounding copy.
Our Review from 2009
This Super Hot Stamper pressing is one of the BEST COPIES we’ve ever played! Both sides earned very high A Double Plus honors, beating practically all the other copies we played it against. The sound is relaxed, natural, and musical, with an incredibly sweet top end.
The overall sound is airy, open, spacious, and SUPER transparent. The brass on this copy also sounds just right: breathy with a nice bite, avoiding most of the blarey quality we heard on so many other pressings. (There is a touch of smear on even the best copies; this one is no different.)
The sound is super 3-D. You’re not going to believe all the ambience surrounding this room full of musicians, especially on the drums! We LOVE that sound.
Baby Elephant Walk is of course the track everyone knows, and just wait until you hear how breathy the calliope is here. When the piccolos come in watch out! There is more high frequency information on this album from the woodwinds alone than from all the instruments on 99 out of 100 other records. (A tough tracking test if ever there was one!)
Find this video and play it on hi-fideity speakers if you have any hooked up to your television. The brass are especially powerful here but my computer speakers clearly cannot do them justice.