Our vintage Doors pressings — either on the Elektra Gold or Big Red E Label, nothing else will do — have the kind of Tubey Magical midrange that modern records are almost never able to reproduce.
Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn’t showing any sign of coming back.
One of The Records That Did It For Me
Perhaps hearing Dark Side was what made you realize how good a record could sound. Looking back over the last forty years, it’s clear to me now that this album, along with scores of others, is one of the surest reasons I became an audiophile in the first place, and stuck with it for so long. What could be better than hearing music you love sound so good?
It’s clearly an album we are obsessed with. We have written extensively about quite a number of them to date. It is our contention that to be any good at this hobby, you have to become obsessed with well-recorded albums and work out the consequences of those obsessions for yourself.
The Soft Parade was one of those albums that blew my fifteen-year-old mind. Songs for Beginners was another one.
We also wrote about the subject of being obsessed with music here. An excerpt: