Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of The Who Available Now
With Doug Sax mastering from the real tape, on the best pressings of Who By Numbers you get a rock solid bottom end like you will not believe. Talk about punchy, well-defined and deep, man, this record has bass that you sure don’t hear too often on rock records.
And it’s not just bass that separates the men from the boys, or the real thing (a vintage pressing) from the current reissues (on Heavy Vinyl) for that matter. It’s weight, fullness, the part of the frequency range from the lower midrange to the upper bass, that area that spans roughly 150 to 600 cycles.
It’s what makes Daltry’s voice sound full and rich, not thin and modern.
It’s what makes the drums solid and fat the way Glyn Johns intended.
The good copies of Who’s Next and Quadrophenia have plenty of muscle in this area, and so do the imports we played.
Want to find your own top quality copy?
Consider taking our moderately helpful advice concerning the pressings that tend to win our shootouts.
Hot Stamper shootouts for this album should be carried out:
How else can you expect to hear the recording at its best?
Based on our experience, The Who by Numbers sounds best: