Hot Stamper Pressings of TAS Super Disc Recordings Available Now
A customer brought up Harry Pearson in a discussion we were having about the best sounding records, which went a little something like this:
“You’re as much a pioneer as Harry Pearson ever was, and your authenticity is unchallengeable…”
Even I wouldn’t go that far! We make plenty of mistakes, and we learn new things about records all the time, so calling us “unchallengable” is a bit off the mark. However, we are always up for the challenge, and are happy to put our records up against any and all comers.
As far as Harry Pearson, I had this to say about the man:
Very kind of you to say. I think Harry could have been much better at his job if he had had access to modern record cleaning technology, better playback, and a staff of people playing thousands of records every year to help him discover the best sounding pressings.
No one can succeed as a one man show in audio. Audio is too complicated. It takes a team of dedicated professionals with expertise in every area of audio and record collecting to do it right.
He never understood stampers and the like because he didn’t have the research staff to get the data he would have needed to test all the stamper variations and learn from them.
He was stuck at the level of labels, and also not nearly skeptical enough of the idea that “the original is better,” a myth audiophiles cling to to this very day. That, and the superiority of the Heavy Vinyl remaster, which we both know is a crock of sh*t.
TP
Our comments for The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann have something to say about these same issues.