Hot Stamper Pressings with Big, Clear and Lively Choruses Available Now
A recent White Hot Stamper pressing of L&M’s fourth release demonstrated pretty convincingly just what an amazing Demo Disc this album can be.
At about the 1:15 mark (and again at 3:10), the song’s chorus is a great test for weight, resolution, dynamic energy, and freedom from strain in the loudest parts.
When the whole band is really belting it out, the shortcomings of any copy will be exposed, assuming you are playing the album at good loud levels on big dynamic speakers.
It was a key test every pressing had to pass. That’s what makes it a good test disc.
When the music gets loud you want it to get better, with more size, energy and, especially, emotional power, just the way that song would be heard in concert.
Any strain or congestion in the choruses we hear in our shootout results in the pressing being downgraded substantially.
Hot Stampers are all about the life of the music, and when this music gets lively, it needs to be clear and clean.
This is of course one of the biggest issues we have with Heavy Vinyl.
Heavy Vinyl almost never gets up and almost never gets going the way vintage records do.
“Lifelss and boring” are the adjectives we most commonly use to describe those we audition, and who wants to listen to lifeless, boring records?