- You’ll find solid Double Plus (A++) sound or BETTER throughout this original Project 3 pressing
- Both of these sides are tubier, more transparent, and more dynamic than most others we played, with plenty of that “jumpin’ out of the speakers” quality that only The Real Thing (an old record) ever has
- We have never heard the electric guitar sound more real than it does on the better copies of this very album
- The arrangements of these mostly familiar songs are clever and innovative – the last thing this music could be called is boring or obvious
- When you’ve played as many records as we have, you’re bound to run into this kind of amazingly good sound from time to time – it’s what makes record collecting fun
The hottest stamper pressings of this album are Demo Discs for three important qualities we listen for in our record auditions. Each of the links below will take you to other recordings we have found to be potentially superior in these areas of reproduction.
- Size and space,
- Correct timbre and
- Tubey Magic.
This is clearly one of the best sounding guitar records we’ve ever had the pleasure to play here at Better Records. Project 3 was an audiophile label in the truest and best sense of the word: a label that not only cared about the sound of their recordings, but actually proved they could produce title after title of the highest quality, equal or superior to anything on the market.
This, of course, places them in stark contrast with the audiophile labels of the modern era, the last forty years say, which only on rare occasion produce records of any real quality. (Here’s one, which proves it can be done!)
Instead these modern labels endlessly grind out one mediocrity after another to the consternation of those of us who know the difference.
But I digress.
We had a mind-blowing percussion record on the Somerset label years ago that raised the bar for us regarding that genre, and this jazz guitar record on Project 3 has achieved the same effect. Some of the following is borrowed from the listing for that Somerset record.
Soundfield, Timbre and Dynamics
The spaciousness of the studio is reproduced with uncanny fidelity, with both huge depth and width, but there is another dimension that this record operates in that few others can — the instruments here are capable of jumping out of your speakers seemingly right into your listening room.
The effect is astonishing. I have never heard the electric guitar sound more real than it does here. The timbre is perfection. The dynamics are startling.
The One Per Cent
Obviously we are charging a lot of money for this kind of Exotica/Bachelor Pad record. Let me make the case by saying that there is likely to be no better sounding record on the site as you read this, and not that many that can compete with it. Out of the thousands and tens of thousands of records we have played over the years, we put this copy in the Top One Per Cent.
It is our belief that no one with an up-to-date, highly tweaked big system, a properly setup front end (with the VTA adjusted specifically for this record), and a carefully treated listening room can fail to have his mind blown by the sonics of this pressing.
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