Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Paul McCartney Available Now
The best pressings of this album convey the immediacy of a live show, one which just happens to be fronted by one of the greatest performers and songwriters in the history of popular music, Sir Paul McCartney.
On the best copies, the sound is warmer, richer, and sweeter, or in a word, more ANALOG sounding. You get more extension up top, more weight down low, and more transparency in the midrange.
It’s surprising just how veiled and two-dimensional so many copies sound, considering this is a live recording with not a lot of processing.
As a digital recording, some of that processing is baked into the tape. Unplugged will never sound as good as this McCartney album, but that’s to be expected.
The bulk of the recordings from 1991 are simply not competitive with those from 1970, not by a long shot. There were hundreds of great records recorded or released in 1970. There are 24 Hot Stamper pressings of them on the site as I write this. I would have a hard time finding even a half-dozen from 1991.