Hot Stamper Pressings of Electric Blues Albums Available Now
We finally got a shootout going and found this killer copy.
Every copy we found with Hot Stampers in clean condition, a grand total of three original stereo copies, sold quickly, so for those of you who wanted to finally be able to hear the record in all is glory, sorry!
Here are the notes for our Shootout Winning copy. It sold for $899.
Side One
- Big and tubey and 3-D
- Jumping out
- Very full vocals
- Weighty and rich
- Great energy
Side Two
- Huge and tubey and spacious
- So much room and detail
- More of the same!
That’s the kind of sound your nine hundred bucks buys you.
Here is how we described it on the site:
- Born Under A Bad Sign returns to the site for the first time in years, here with KILLER Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) grades on both sides of this original Stax pressing – fairly quiet vinyl too
- These are just a few of the the things we had to say about this amazing copy in our notes: “big and tubey and 3D”…”jumping out of the speakers”…”very full vox”…”weighty and rich”…”great energy”…”so much room and detail”
- No other copy came close to this one, and we had a bunch, many of which earned grades of 1.5+ because, on this record, you really have to know what to look for in the dead wax
- Incredibly dynamic, rich and full, with lots of texture to the guitars, this copy brought the music to life right in our listening room
- Accept no substitutes – no reissue of the album can ever give you the energy, size and you-are-there presence that’s on this disc
More amazing finds similar to this one can be found here.
Craft Recordings remastered this Albert King title, and you should not be surprised to find that it sounds as awful as the other pressings put out by this ridiculous label, remastered pressings that we took the time to audition and review out of the goodness of our hearts, in the hopes of saving those of you out there in the land of audiophiles who might be tempted to buy some of their low- to mid-fi releases and could be scared away by our criticisms.
To succeed in warning you off, naturally you would have to be the kind of audiophile who could ignore the many positive reviews from the so-called experts, and then be able to put your faith in our estimation of their records.
This, we know, would be hard. Our advice: buy one, play it, and see for yourself how awful the sound is. Then you will know whom to trust in the future.
And if for some reason you find the sound of the Craft pressing of Born Under a Bad Sign acceptable, even — gulp — enjoyable, you are definitely spending your time on a blog that is not speaking to your needs.
If that is the case, our only advice would be to encourage you to get good sound.
Then you can recognize and collect good records, not the trash that Craft Recordings is putting out.
Hey, want to find your own top quality copy?
Consider taking our moderately helpful advice concerning the pressings that consistently win our shootouts.
This record has been sounding its best for many years, in shootout after shootout, this way:
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