Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Borodin Available Now
The Borodin album you see pictured is a decent enough Speakers Corner Decca repress.
The Heavy Vinyl reissue of this title is not bad, but like a number of reissues, it lacks the bottom end weight found on the early London pressings.
(Classic Records pressings rarely had that problem. Just the opposite in fact. The bass was boosted most of the time, especially the deep bass, but for some reason the lower strings are never rich the way the best vintage pressings can be.)
I remember this Speakers Corner pressing being a little flat and bright.
Since I haven’t played it in years, there is some chance that I could be wrong. I have never had trouble admitting to the possibility, a fact that makes us practically unique in the world of audiophile reviewers.
The glorious sound I hear on the best London pressings is simply not the kind of thing I hear on 180 gram records by Speakers Corner, or anybody else for that matter.
They do a good job some of the time, but none of their records can compete with a vintage pressing when that vintage pressing is mastered and pressed properly.
The best pressings of this UK London Stereo Treasury from the Seventies will beat the pants off of it. That ought to tell you something, right?