Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Bruce Springsteen Available Now
One of our good customers had this to say about a White Hot Stamper pressing he purchased recently:
Dear Tom,
My White Hot Stamper of Born in the USA arrived today.
I called off a meeting, poured a whiskey, and let it rip.
How nice to be able to finally hear one of the albums I’ve listened to the most in my life.
Hearing where the backing vocalists are standing on Darlington County was a revelation.
Aaron
Dear Aaron,
Thanks for your letter.
Yeah, Born in the U.S.A. is a tough one — so much distortion and processing make for a tough shootout!
We would be foolish to make claims for “audiophile quality” sound on Springsteen’s albums — they are what they are. The simple claim we make for our Hot Stampers is that the best of them sound as good as the album can sound, and we back that up with a 100% Money Back guarantee.
Born in the U.S.A. is yet another example of an album that must be graded on a curve.
Only a top quality pressing will let you turn up the volume as loud as your system can play.
One reason turning up your volume is such a great test is that the louder the problem, the harder it is to ignore.
The best copies have superb extension up top, which allows the grit and edge on the vocals to almost entirely disappear.
Some of it is there on the tape for a reason. That’s partly the sound Springsteen was going for, this is after all a Bob Clearmountain mix.
Like Aaron, some of our other customers have written us letters about our Hot Stamper pressings being revelatory, and we know exactly what they mean. We heard them ourselves, in a shootout, head to head with other copies.
That’s the only way to know — for sure — if any copy is the real deal.
Thanks for your letter,
TP
