Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Carole King Available Now
Sonic Grade: C
Years ago we wrote the following:
It’s been quite a while since I played the Classic LP, but I remember it as being fairly good.
UPDATE 2020
I doubt if I would care much for it now. These pressings by Classic Records rarely age well.
At the time we had this to say about the sound:
It’s a little rolled off on the top, but it’s a good rolled off, because brightening it up would make it sound modern and wrong. It’s rich and full of body, especially the piano, the way modern recordings almost never are.
So often when we revisit the remastered pressings we used to like on Heavy Vinyl we come away dumbfounded — what on earth were we thinking? These are not the droids sounds we are looking for. Perhaps our minds were clouded at the time.
