Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Genesis Available Now
British Pressing? Check.
Pink Label? Check.
Sound Quality? Side One:: 1+ (dubby). Side Two: NFG (no good).
What could have possibly gone wrong?
Apparently something went wrong, but exactly what, nobody really knows.
And if for some reason somebody actually believes they know what went wrong, we tell them that that kind of thinking is detrimental to whatever success they hope to achieve in finding better sounding records, if our experience over the last fifty years has any bearing.
We don’t know it all and we’ve never pretended to. All our knowledge is provisional. We may not be the smartest guys in the room, but we’re sure as hell smart enough to know that much.
If somehow we did know it all, there would be no need for the two hundred entries in our live and learn section about all the mistakes we’ve made in trying to understand record pressings at the sonic level.
We take a different approach to searching out the best sounding pressings. Instead of reading about them — who made them, how they were made, where they were made, all that sort of thing — we instead devoted our efforts to cleaning and playing them, so that we could make our own judgments about the sound and the music we heard.
Our experiments, conducted using the shootout process painstakingly developed over the course of the last twenty years, produce all the data we need: the winners, the losers, and the ranking for all the records in-between.
Free Stamper Info
By my count this is the 108th stamper sheet we have posted on The Skeptical Audiophile.
In the case of this title, these are what we would call “bad stampers for Genesis’s 1973 Prog album Selling England by the Pound (a record we rarely have in stock because the best stampers are just too hard to find, at least on copies in audiophile playing condition).
If you are looking for top quality sound — and seriously, what else would you be looking for on this blog? — then make sure not to buy any old early Pink Label UK pressing of the album. You may end up with one that sounds as bad as this one did.
More Advice
Want to avoid paying our admittedly high prices and find a top quality copy for yourself?
Consider taking our moderately helpful advice concerning the pressings that tend to win our shootouts.
Selling England by the Pound should sound its best this way:
How else can you expect to hear the music sound its best?
Based on our experience, Genesis’s 1973 release sounds better:
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