Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of John Coltrane Available Now
The early OJC reissues from 1982 of this title are awful.
And whatever Heavy Vinyl they’re churning out these days is probably every bit as bad, but — I’m guessing, never played one so don’t hold me to it — in the opposite way.
The OJC is thin and bright, and the modern reissue (I’m assuming, based on playing scores of them) is probably thick, veiled, overly smooth, lacking in space and boosted in the bass — because that’s the sound that audiophiles record buyers seem to like these days.
Without the excellent sounding 60s and 70s reissues that we are still able to find in audiophile playing condition, all that we would have available to buy for our shootouts would be the originals.
At the big bucks those records go for nowadays, shootouts would be impossibly expensive.
So our thanks go to Rudy for doing a good job on these later pressings!
UPDATE 2025
We were surprised to find that the right stampers on the new OJC pressings can have very good sound. Click on the link below to that Soultrane has joined the group of good sounding modern OJC pressings.
Without these excellent ’60s and ’70s reissues, all that we would have available to do our shootouts would be the originals.