Our (Incomplete) List of Potentially Very Good Sounding OJC Pressings
It has finally come to pass. A modern pressing has won a shootout.
Having auditioned more than a dozen modern (post-2000) OJC pressings and having had them fall far short of the mark again and again — when they weren’t just plain awful — we have now discovered one that can win a shootout.
As you imagine, this came as quite a shock.
We weren’t sure precisely which of the many OJC pressings our shootout winner was until we looked up the stamper numbers on Discogs. To our surprise, it had clearly been made sometime in the the 21st century.
That Never Happens
This has never happened before. No record made since 2000 has ever won a shootout against a vintage pressing of the same title.
Modern records range from awful to very good, but one quality they have never had is the ability to be the best of the best.
Now one has.