Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of John Coltrane Available Now
The sound of the 45 RPM 2 disc version of Giant Steps cut by Bernie Grundman did not exactly tickle our fancy.
It sounded thick, dull, and entirely too smooth.
It reminded us of the awful Deja Vu Bernie remastered years ago for Classic Records.
As is the case with so many of the Heavy Vinyl reissues released these days, the studio ambience you hear on these pressings is a pitiful fraction of the ambience the real pressings have encoded in their grooves.
Real pressings like, you know, the ones mass-produced by Atlantic, original and reissue alike. What’s Bernie’s excuse?