Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Dire Straits Available Now
The best domestic pressings we played, the ones cut by Robert Ludwig at Masterdisk, were simply not competitive with any of the early British LPs.
The evidence is pretty clear that the master tapes stayed in England and that only the British pressings are made from them. If you’ve played as many records as we have, it’s not hard to recognize dubby sound when you hear it.
As a general rule, this domestic pressing will fall short in some or all of the following areas when played head to head against the imported pressings we offer. Much like the records linked here:
- It will tend to lack ambience, size and space.
- It will tend to be more compressed.
- It will tend to lack energy.
- It will tend to have more smear.
- It will tend to lack transparency.