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,
Funny enough, I listened to Pretzel Logic yesterday. Very tubey, we love it. I have an AAB-1006 (RE-3) pressing of Aja that sounds fantastic. (If you have any insight on that pressing I’d love to hear it!)
I replied:
Dear Sir,
Thanks for your letter.
There are so many stampers for that record, and the same stamper that sounds great on one copy can sound terrible on another, so we just buy them and play them and let the chips fall where they may.
And, of course, if we did know that RE-3 was a killer Hot Stamper, we wouldn’t tell you anyway!
Best, TP
UPDATE 2025
This is not actually true anymore and has not been true for many years.
We don’t buy everything we can find, not at the prices these records command now.
There are good stampers that we go after, all early pressings of course, and plenty that we know to be at best mediocre and too often worse than mediocre that we avoid.