Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Barney Kessel Available Now
We highly recommend you make every effort to find yourself a copy of this album and use it to test your system. The right pressing can be both a great Demo Disc and a great Test Disc.
The best Hot Stamper early pressings have the Tubey Magic we’ve come to expect from Contemporary circa 1958, with that warm, rich, full-bodied sound that RVG often struggles to get on tape. (But when he’s good he too is hard to beat.)
However, some pressings in our shootout managed to give us an extra level of transparency and ambience that most of the original pressings we played could not.