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Letter of the Week – “I feel (and tremble) as if I am sitting in the Abbey Road Studios while they are recording.”

Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of The Beatles Available Now

Our good customer Alex had this to say about a White Hot Stamper pressing of Sgt. Peppers he purchased from us a while ago:

Hey Tom,   

I was very excited to have purchased a Triple/Triple Sgt. Pepper. So much so that I went out and bought a new stereo system. My copy arrived in January. There was no way I was going to take a chance and play it on my 30+ year-old vintage set-up. I have a friend who sells wicked awesome gear and I spent about a month from middle January to Middle February listening to quite a few turntables and speakers.

Once I settled on the system I then made an appointment to listen to Pepper. My wife and I went over to hear this White Hot Stamper.
The results? Tears of profound JOY.

And a big you-know-what eating grin on my face for the last week (and probably for the rest of my life). I was 9 years old in 1967 and I had only heard this LP on a cheap record player for years and I still loved it. It has been my most loved music for my entire life.

This copy is absolute, mind-blowing PERFECTION! The Fabs are at their BEST and I feel (and tremble) as if I am sitting in the Abbey Road Studios while they are recording.

I am so happy that you had this copy for sale and that I now own it. I have had some of my family and friends come by to hear my new system and listen to this LP. EVERYONE raves when they hear this album.

A big THANK YOU to everyone at Better Records for putting your heart and soul and time and efforts into finding this copy of the best record ever made.

Alex,

Your favorite album sounding better than you ever thought it possible? What could be better that that?

You are so right about the sound — those top copies on a good system will really blow your mind. The gulf between them and the current pressings and CDs is pretty shocking, as you now know.

Thanks for writing and so glad to know you are enjoying some of the greatest music ever recorded, the way it was meant to be heard, on vintage vinyl.

Best, TP


Sgt. Pepper’s checks off a number of important boxes for us:

The blog you are on now as well as our website are both devoted to very special records such as these.

Pepper is the very definition of a big speaker album. The better pressings have the kind of energy in their grooves that are sure to have most audiophile systems begging for mercy.

This is the audio challenge that awaits you. If you don’t have a system designed to play records with this kind of sonic power, don’t expect to hear them the way the band, Geoff Emerick, George Martin and everybody else involved in the production wanted you to.

This album wants to rock your world, and that’s exactly what our Hot Stamper pressings are good at. Just ask Alex.


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