Many copies suffer from harsh, digital-sounding highs.
Pull out your old copy and listen to the beginning of side two and you should have no trouble hearing what we’re on about.
Compare that to the silkier, sweeter top end on even the lowest-graded Hot Stamper pressing you may have picked up from your friends at Better Records and it’s unlikely you’ll find yourself going back to listening to whatever pressing you had been playing.
The comparison, we hope, will be edifying.
Want to find your own top quality copy?
Consider taking our moderately helpful advice concerning the pressings that tend to win our shootouts.
In our experience, this record sounds best this way:
And that means that it’s Robert Ludwig’s initials you should be looking for in the dead wax. Accept no substitutes.