Hot Stamper Pressings of Hippie Folk Rock Albums Available Now
One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stampers he had purchased (emphasis added):
Hey Tom,
I want to say a big THANK YOU for the Hot Stamper’s you sent to me. Two of them are now top ten titles in my collection: Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman.
I’m so amazed and lucky – I can’t describe it.
The sound is so natural and beat my expectations in many ways – it sounds out of this world. This copy has sweet, breathy vocals, well-defined bass (!!), stunning clarity, warmth and richness, immediacy, astonishing transparency (it burns direct in your DNA – I’ll never forget!) and loads of ambience and more.
It murders my pink Island original UK copies.
It was a privilege to be able to hear this copy – a HIGHLIGHT event. It’s a Demo Disc of the highest order. And it’s worth the price.
The other big winner is CSN’s first album. This is one of the few LP’s with sound that you won’t soon forget. I live since a week with this good feeling and I can’t hear or rate any other LP at this time (‘til Tillerman arrived).
Erik S.
Erik,
Thanks for your letter. Both CSN’s first album and Tea for the Tillerman belong in any audiophile’s rock and pop collection worthy of the name.
I’ve made it my life’s work to find the best sounding pressings of both of these classics, and as you can now attest, that work has not been in vain. There can be no denying it: You have the Hot Stamper proof in your hands, on your turntable, or sitting on your record shelves as the case may be.
Tillerman, sure, anyone can find a good copy of that album. (Ours beat yours because we had to go through a big pile to find the one that could.)
But the first Crosby, Stills and Nash album? The right pressings are very hard to come by, which is why you almost never see them on the site.
Glad we were able to supply you with both and here’s to knowing you will be able to play and enjoy them for the rest of your life.
Best, TP
P.S.
Tubey Magical Acoustic Guitar reproduction is superb on the better copies of both of these titles.
Simply phenomenal amounts of Tubey Magic can be heard on every strum, along with richness, body and harmonic coherency that have all but disappeared from modern recordings (and especially from modern remasterings).
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