
Hot Stamper Pressings of Direct-to-Disc Recordings
Reviews and Commentaries for Direct to Disc Recordings
These are just some of the recordings on Crystal Clear that we’ve auditioned over the years and found wanting.
Without going into specifics — who would bother to take the time? — we’ll just say these albums suffer from poor musical performances, poor sound, or both, and therefore do not deserve a place in your collection.
The Big Picture from a Lifelong Audiophile
You may have seen this text in another listing, but it bears repeating. There is nothing new under the sun, and that is especially true when it comes to bad sounding audiophile records. The world is full of them.
Hey, the records being marketed to audiophiles these days may have second- and third-rate sound, but at least now they have good music
That’s progress, right?
These two titles are the kind of crap we newbie audiophiles used to put up with back in the ’70s before we had anything resembling a clue.
They clearly belong on our list of Bad Audiophile Records
You might be asking: What Kind of Audio Fool Was I? to buy dumbass records like these.
Yes, I was foolish enough to buy these records (and dozens more like them) and expect them to have good music, or at least good sound. Of course they had neither. Practically none of these kinds of records ever did. Sheffield and a few others made some good ones, but most Crystal Clears were crap.
As clueless as I was, even back in the day I could tell that I had just thrown my money away on these two lipsticked-pigs in a poke.
But I was an audiophile, and I wanted to believe. These special super-hi-fidelity records were being made for me, for special people like me, because I had expensive equipment and regular records would just never be good enough to play on my special equipment, right?
To say I was wrong to think about audio that way is obviously an understatement. Over the course of the last forty years, I (and to be fair, my friends and my staff) have been wrong about a great deal when it comes to records and audio.
You can read more about many of the things we got wrong under the heading: Live and Learn.
Thank goodness Audio Progress is real and anyone who goes about it the right way can achieve it.
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