More on the Subject of Half-Speed Mastering
This is an A&M Audiophile Sampler, made in Canada and pressed on Japanese vinyl .
There is a bit of a story behind this title. It’s not the kind of record we normally would buy or bother to play.
A customer had emailed us about saying it sounded great. It was cheap so we grabbed one for fun. Our notes read:
- Sucked out middle
- Clean and hard (maybe like a CD?)
- This sucks
Hard to imagine one of our customers liked the sound of this pressing, but one of them did, so make of that what you will.
If you are still buying modern remastered pressings, making the same mistakes that I was making before I knew better, take the advice of some of our customers and stop throwing your money away on Heavy Vinyl and Half-Speed mastered LPs.
At the very least let us send you a Hot Stamper pressing — of any album you choose — that can show you what is lacking on your copy of the album.
And if for some reason you disagree with us that our record sounds better than yours, we will happily give you all your money back and wish you the very best.
To learn more about records that sound dramatically better than any Half-Speed mastered title ever made (with a few exceptions), please go to our Half-Speed mastering page.
Below you will find our categorical breakdown for the best and worst Half-Speed mastered records we have auditioned over the last fifty years. (We also have one for Heavy Vinyl if you’re interested.)
- Half-Speed mastered disasters
- Half-Speed mastered mediocrities
- Half-Speed mastered winners
- Half-Speed masters – the complete list
