needle-drops

We Drop the Needle on Another Sad Excuse for an Audiophile Pressing

More on the Subject of Half-Speed Mastering

This is an A&M Audiophile Sampler, made in Canada and pressed on Japanese vinyl .

There is a bit of a story behind this title. It’s not the kind of record we normally would buy, or even bother to play truth be told.

A customer had emailed us saying it sounded great. It was cheap so we grabbed one for fun. Our notes read:

  • Sucked out middle
  • Clean and hard (maybe like a CD?)
  • This sucks

Hard to imagine one of our customers liked the sound of this pressing, but I assure you that one of them did, so make of that what you will.

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Every Label Made Mediocre Records – London Released This One in 1963

More of the music of Franz Schubert

More of the music of Antonin Dvorak

The copy we auditioned was opaque and veiled, much like the Heavy Vinyl reissues that are flooding the market these days.

Looking for pressings with audiophile quality sound and mostly quiet surfaces? This link will take you to the Decca/London records that are currently available on our site. They’re guaranteed to have good sound. Quiet surfaces are harder to come by but we’re doing the best we can.

As far as we can tell, based on this single copy, CS 6357 is not an album worthy of a Hot Stamper shootout.

We can’t say that there aren’t good sounding pressings of the album though. If we hear a better one down the road, we would certainly be open to the possibility of doing a shootout and making the best copies available to our customers.

Perhaps you have one you like. If so, please let us know. You can email me at tom@better-records.com

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