Hot Stamper Pressings of Sonny Rollins’s Albums Available Now
One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stampers he purchased recently:
Dear Tom and Fred
After having had the opportunity to listen to the next batch of 7 more records, here are my observations on the now 40 records I bought from you.
First to my listening experience. After receiving the CSNY 4 Way Street and looking for my own record, I thought was a German press easy to beat I realized it was a white label promo first press and thought, oh, did I make a mistake to buy this for this kind of money from you guys, this may be a tough one to crack?
Not so, your SH Stamper clearly beat the WL promo, check!
Next up was the Miles Davis Sketches of Spain White Hot Stamper, one of my very top Miles favorites.
I did not recall that I had the six eye first press, and on side 2, with identical stampers (when your 3/3 WH show up, you do not have the time to check this but hurry :-since your WH 3/3s sell like hot cakes!).
So even more difficult to beat?? Promising start: your WH was clearly better on side 1, now to the identical stampers side 2: not as clearly but still just more transparent, better drums, less shrill on track 2, check!
But it certainly cannot get better than this 3/3 WH stamper, can it?
Next up is Sonny Rollins 3/3 WH Stamper [of Way Out West]. Hard to believe, but yes, even better than the great Miles 3/3 WHS, and I will spare you the time to comment on my 1992 Analogue Productions reissue which I always thought was quite decent.
And so it goes on…
Christian
Christian,
In less than a year you have acquired a large number of simply amazing sounding records. Congratulations.
As you point out about the stampers, you may have a pressing with the right stampers, but our copy will still beat it. How it was pressed and how it was cleaned are critical to the sound, and that is not something the stamper numbers can tell you. It’s a subject we discuss all over this blog. Here is a good place to start.
As for your 1992 Analogue Productions Heavy Vinyl remaster, I honestly don’t know how anyone can listen to a record with sound like that and consider it acceptable, or, in your words, “quite decent.” I went into the long story of the album in this commentary.