Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Steve Winwood Available Now
One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stampers he purchased recently:
Hey Tom,
Yesterday I was marveling at the bottom-end and overall clarity of my new Stevie Winwood album. I think it’s right up there with Miles of Aisles, which sounded so good it made my wife cry (seriously).
But as always, I came up with a dark thought: Are Hot Stampers the only way to get my system to sound this good?
I have VERY few personally-selected LPs that can compete with a Hot Stamper. Even though I usually buy the “Budget” stampers, it looks like a future of hundred-buck-plus albums for me.
Gordon R.
Gordon,
Yes, our records are expensive, there is no denying that fact. I think you would agree they are worth what we charge, which is typically much more than a hundred dollars each these days. The average record on our site runs about three times that much.
Fortunately, if you want more records that sound as good as our Hot Stampers do, we tell you how to find your own.
We recently added some sections to our site for our “less expensive” titles:
Further Reading
Gordon is correct. The only way to get your stereo sounding this good is indeed with hot stampers. That said, I have found that building a system to Tom’s spec (as close as possible with what’s available today) has helped ALL my record listening to improve. As part of that, I’ve had to ditch some records that used to sound perfectly fine to me. As I’ve pushed the upper limit, the whole window has expanded.
So, yeah, knowing hot stampers exist can be a bittersweet pill to swallow. The good news is my Tom-approved system is cheaper than the Clearaudio/McIntosh/B&W system it has wholly replaced. If I only I had started here instead of coming around after years of wandering in the vinyl wilderness…