Hot Stamper Pressings of Large Group Jazz Recordings Available Now
The best of the best vintage recordings are truly amazing if you can play them right.
That’s a big if. In fact, it may just be the biggest if in all of audio.
But that is not our story for today. Our story today concerns the relationship between more accurate timbre and higher fidelity.
What do we love about vintage pressings like the Ted Heath disc you see pictured above?
The timbre of the instruments is reproduced with wonderful fidelity.
The unique sound of every instrument in this very large ensemble has been recorded accurately. Every instrument sounds the way it would sound if you were hearing it live. Every instrument sounds real.
That’s what we mean by Hi-Fi, not the kind of “Audiophile Sound” (sneer quotes are very much called for whenever the word “audiophile” is used to describe sound quality, mostly because there is so little in the way of quality to be described ) that passes for Hi-Fidelity on some records.
Some of the worst offenders along those lines can be found here.