Please Consider Taking Some of Our Hard-Earned Audio Advice
It is an unfortunate fact that, at least for some audiophiles, Hot Stampers simply do not exist.
They may be lovers of sound, the dictionary definition of an audiophile, but their systems are not revealing and accurate enough to allow them to hear how good a properly-mastered, properly-pressed, properly-cleaned vintage (or maybe not so vintage) pressing can sound relative to whatever other version of the music they may have — Heavy Vinyl, cassette, CD, etc.
They simply do not possess a system (power, equipment, room, tweaks) of the quality required to play them at their best.
Others won’t have developed the rudimentary listening skills needed to recognize the superior sound of a Hot Stamper pressing when it’s playing on their turntable.
Speculation? Opinion? Not really. Not when the evidence is this overwhelming. Let’s look at some of the facts.
A great many analog-oriented audiophiles are quite happy with the sound of Heavy Vinyl LPs, the kind that we regularly trash around here.
Those pressings set a decidedly low standard for sound quality, to our ears anyway, so if the typical audiophile is happy with them, what does that tell you about the quality of his audio chain and the nature of his critical listening skills?