Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Led Zeppelin Available Now
A classic case of live and learn.
Back in the day I thought the Classic 180 and then 200 gram pressing was the king on Zep IV. In late 2006 I wrote:
“You can hear how much cleaner and more correct the mastering is right away…”
Folks, I must have been out of my mind.
No, that’s not quite fair. I wasn’t out of my mind. I just hadn’t gotten my system to the place where it needed to be to allow the right original pressings to show me how much better the best of them can sound.
Our EAR 324 phono stage and constantly evolving tweaks to both the system and room are entirely responsible for our ability to reproduce this album correctly. If your equipment, cleaning regimen, room treatments and the like are mostly “old school,” getting the album to sound right will be very, very difficult.
Without the myriad audio advances of the last couple of decades you are pushing your luck with an album such as this. It’s what progress in audio in all about.
How Does It Sound Now?