Hot Stamper Pressings of The Pines of Rome
More Reviews and Commentaries for The Pines of Rome
The Prevatelli on London you see pictured was way too compressed to be taken seriously by us.
When the music is supposed to get loud at the end of the Pines, it never does!
The Stereo Treasury you see below was equally bad sounding. It did not last more than a few minutes on our turntable.
If more vintage Londons had sound as bad as the three or four copies we had on hand (it’s a fairly common used record, now I know why), we would happily admit that going the Heavy Vinyl route is a good idea.
And there certainly are a lot of bad vintage pressings — we should know, we’ve played them by the hundreds — but the number of bad Modern Heavy Vinyl pressings would give them a run for their money.
There are quite a number of others that we’ve run into over the years with sonic shortcomings.
Here they are, broken down by label.
- London/Decca records with weak sound or performances
- Mercury records with weak sound or performances
- RCA records with weak sound or performances