Hot Stamper Pressings of Classic Rock Albums Available Now

This title is yet another record that belongs in the audiophile hall of shame.

Like most Mobile Fidelity pressings, it’s better suited to the stone age stereos of decades past.

There is a Mobile Fidelity Half-Speed Mastered version of this album currently in print, and an older one from the days when their records were pressed in Japan (#052).

We haven’t played the latter in years; as I recall it was as lifeless and sucked-out in the midrange as many of the other famous MoFi’s of that period, notably The Doors (#051) and Trick of the Tail (#062), which is perhaps the most lifeless record this ridiculous label ever released.

Is there any doubt that the newer MoFi pressing of the album will be every bit as bad or worse? (more…)