Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Pink Floyd Available Now
One of our good customers had this to say about some a Hot Stamper pressing of Meddle he purchased a while back:
Hi Tom,
Got the Meddle album already. I sat down as soon as I opened it and listened to both sides with the volume up.
Absolutely blew me away. I heard things on there that I never heard before. Or I just heard them better.
I didn’t have to listen to my other copies. I knew right away this one was IT.
Listening to a record like this just gets me thinking what the other Hot Stampers sound like.
Steve
Steve,
Thanks for writing.
You are completely right. Some pressings are so obviously superior that no comparisons are necessary. Going back to your old copies would be shocking — how could I have put up with such substandard sound quality?
In 2007 we discovered the Hottest Stampers of them all, a reissue pressing if you can believe it — something we have no trouble believing as we much prefer to let the evidence be our guide when it comes to which are the best pressings, not theories, preconceived ideas or conventional wisdom. From that point on there was no going back.
It turns out that there is one and only one set of stampers that consistently wins our shootouts for Meddle. This link will take you to other titles with one set of stampers that always come out on top.
The Prelude Record Cleaning System had a lot to do with that breakthrough, and we have been big fans of the system Mr. Walker developed ever since. In addition to getting them clean, we know of nothing that does as much for the sound of records.
Best, TP
P.S.
Play Fearless to hear Pink Floyd at their best. Psychedelic Pop doesn’t get any better.
Consider taking our moderately helpful advice concerning the pressings that tend to do well in our shootouts.
This record has been sounding its best for many years this way:
How else can you expect to hear this record at its best?
Based on our experience, Meddle sounds better: