Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of George Benson Available Now
The Half-Speed is pretty — pretty lifeless if you ask me, in the way that so many Half-Speed mastered records are.
It’s cut very clean, but until you play a good A&M pressing, you don’t know how much meat has been stripped from the bones. The best A&M pressings sound like a Rudy Van Gelder recording, which, of course, they are.
These A&M Half-Speeds suffer from all the same shortcomings that other Half-Speeds suffer from: the kind of pretty but lifeless and oh-so-boring sound that we describe in listing after listing.