Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of David Bowie Available Now
With Let’s Dance the name of the game is energy, and boy do the best copies! Both sides of this former shootout winner have the deep, punchy bass, smooth vocals and sweet, extended highs that Bowie’s music needs to come alive.
With that big bass and natural top end, this is one record you can turn up good and loud without fear of fatigue. On a big pair of dynamic speakers, you will get more than your money’s worth from the best of our Hot Stamper pressings.
If you’re a fan of big drums in a big room with jump out of the speakers sound, this is the album for you.
Side One
Modern Love
This track has a tendency to be a bit brighter than those that follow. To find out if your Let’s Dance is killer, see how the title track further down sounds.
China Girl
Let’s Dance
The best sounding track on the album and one of the handful of best sounding Bowie tracks ever recorded. With a truly Hot Stamper copy, try as you might you will be very hard-pressed to find better sound. Demo Disc quality doesn’t begin to do it justice.
Without You
Side Two
Ricochet
Criminal World
Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
The best sound and music on side two. A top Bowie track.
Shake It
Let’s Dance is yet another record that deserves some credit for helping me become a better listener.
I remember many years ago working on the adjustment for the third set of Hallographs we were using, the ones stationed in the rear corners of the room, using this very record to get them dialed in.
I wanted to make the bass more note-like, I wanted the kick drum to have plenty of kick, and I wanted the voice to stay as full-bodied and smooth as it always is on the best pressings.
I did this for a few hours per session over the course of a few days, eventually landing on positions that seemed to give me more of the first two with no loss of the third, the voice.
(As a rule of thumb, when you make a change to your system and the voice on a pop record gets worse, no matter how much better anything else may have improved, you’ve almost always lost more than you’ve gained. See here for more on that subject.)
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