Hot Stamper Pressings of Hippie Folk Rock Albums Available Now
UPDATE 2023
This commentary describes some observations we were able to make after doing a shootout a few years back.
Even though all the original Pink Label pressings are mastered by the great Robert Ludwig, they have a marked tendency to be dull, thick and opaque. Other records we’ve played with these same shortcomings can be found by clicking on the links below.
- More records that tend to have thick sound
- More records that tend to have dull sound
- More records that tend to have opaque sound
On too many original pressings, the sound is too smooth.
Starting at some point in the mid-’90s, many Heavy Vinyl pressings started to have the same shortcoming, one that we find insufferable to this day: they are just too damn smooth.