Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of The Beatles Available Now
No they are not. At least the ones on the label you see pictured are not (with the exceptions noted below).
We think it’s just another example of mistaken audiophile thinking.
Back in 2005 we compared the MFSL pressing of Help to a British Parlophone LP and were — mistakenly, as you may have already surmised — impressed by the MoFi. We wrote:
Mobile Fidelity did a GREAT JOB with Help!. Help! is a famously dull sounding record. I don’t know of a single original pressing that has the top end mastered properly. Mobile Fidelity restored the highs that are missing from most copies.
The source of the error in our commentary above is in this sentence, see if you can spot it:
I don’t know of a single original pressing that has the top end mastered properly.
Did you figure it out? If you’ve spent much time on our site of course you did.
Original pressing?
Is that the standard?
Why? Who said so? Where is it written?