Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Steely Dan Available Now
Clean and clear and tonally correct, just like a good CD should sound.
If this is what you are after, why not just buy the CD? It’s bound to be a lot cheaper.
Some songs sound better than others, but I can’t for the life of me remember which ones. I auditioned copies of this record more than twenty thirty years ago. Once I got rid of them I never bought another. Why would I?
No doubt there are still audiophiles extolling the virtues of this record on various internet threads.
One thing you can be sure of: these are people who are not serious about making progress in audio.
Some of the pressings these audiophiles like can be found in our stone age audio record section.
If you have top quality, highly-tweaked modern equipment, a good room, and the myriad other things that make exceptionally good vinyl playback possible these days — in a way that was not possible even ten or fifteen years ago — you would have no reason to keep a record of such mediocrity in your collection.
Or say anything nice about it on a site ostensibly devoted to audiophile vinyl.
Notes
MCA Records Audiophile / Digitally Mastered
Pressed with TELDEC Virgin Vinyl at KM Records, Burbank
Mastered at Masterdisk, N.Y.C., by Bob Ludwig
Steely Dan
We are not fans of this compilation, and the same holds true for the Greatest Hits double album, also mastered by Bob Ludwig. Neither can hold a candle to the best pressings of the individual albums they release, five of which are credited with helping us dramatically improve our playback.
Further Reading
- Hot Stamper pressings engineered by Robert Ludwig available now
- More commentaries and letters for albums engineered by Robert Ludwig
- Here are our reviews of Aja and Can’t Buy a Thrill on Analogue Productions UHQR
