Hot Stamper Pressings Featuring the Violin Available Now
In this case, since the label is different but the stampers are the same, it’s the label that tells you how good your pressing may — heavy accent on the may — sound.
Lately we’ve been having exceptionally good luck with the early label pressings of many of the London violin concerto records we’ve done shootouts for.
However, the notes you see below do not belong to the wonderful Sibelius record pictured here.
They belong to another London record. We give out lots of bad stampers on this blog, but almost never do we give out the good ones. (When we do give out the best stampers, we usually keep the title a mystery, as is the case of the record here. To see the other titles whose Shootout Winning stampers have been revealed, please click here. The list to date is short but not to worry, more are on their way.)
The amazingly good sounding pressing on the early label took the recording to another level. Our shootout notes read:
- Amazing violin sound and performance.
- Very dynamic and realistic.
- So much subtlety.
Key Takeaways
- The top four copies all had the same stampers, yet the sound varied noticeably from side to side, from Super Hot (A++) to White Hot (A+++), with one earning the grade between, Nearly White Hot (A++ to A+++).
