Hot Stamper Pressing of the Music of Joni Mitchell Available Now
The discussion below was prompted by a stunning White Hot Stamper 2-pack that had just gone up on the site..
I implored the eventual purchaser to note that side two of record one has Joni sounding thin, hard and veiled. If you look at the stampers you can see it’s obviously cut by the same guy (no names please!), and we’re pretty sure both sides were stamped out at the same time of the day since it’s impossible to do it any other way.
What accounts for the amazing sound of one side and the mediocre sound of its reverse?
If your theory cannot account for these huge differences in sound, your theory is fatally flawed.
Can anything be more ridiculous than the ad hoc, evidence-free theories of some audiophile record collectors desperately searching for a reason to explain why records — even the two sides of the same record — sound so different from one another?
The old adage “the proof of the pudding is in the eating” couldn’t be more apt. If you want to know if a pudding tastes good, a list of its ingredients, the temperature it was cooked at, and the name of the person stirring it on the stove is surely of limited value. To know the taste one need only take a bite.