Hot Stamper Pressings of British Blues Rock Albums Available Now
A hall of shame pressing if there ever was one.
The UK pressing of Roger the Engineer we played was pure crap.
Cool for collectors I suppose, but very bad news for audiophiles.
Your response to this news may depend on which camp you find yourself in. If you love collecting original pressings, we would put you in the record collector camp, not the audiophile one. Audiophiles are supposed to care about sound quality, so if the more original pressing is the one you want, then you are a record collector first and an audiophile second, if at all. Harsh? Let’s call a spade a spade.
Regardless, we ask that you please not buy into that record collecting / audiophile canard that the originals are always going to be the best sounding pressings. The hundreds of reissues listed here prove otherwise.
The original British pressing — true, we only had the one, so take it for what it’s worth — was a poor imitation of what was most likely on the master tape, as revealed by the Edsel reissues.
Maybe you have a good sounding one. We can’t say you don’t. But we would be very unlikely to spend much money on an original import pressing after hearing this one.
And the domestic records we’ve played were clearly made from dub tapes, so they’re a bust too.
