Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Harry Nilsson Available Now
Not that we would ever claim that TML in the dead wax guarantees good sound.
Side two of our tan label copy below was passable, but that’s sonically a very long way from the top copies we played, which of course were all TML, with lots of different stampers, none of which we are likely to reveal, now or in the future, for reasons we are sure you understand.
Anyone who buys one of our White Hot Stamper copies will definitely know, but we only find a couple of those every few years, as this is not a shootout that’s been easy to do for a very long time.
Make sure your equipment is tuned up and the electricity is good before you get anywhere near a pressing of this album.
Big production pop like this is hard to pull off. Harry did an amazing job, but the recording is not perfect judging by the dozen or so copies I played this week and the scores I’ve suffered through before.
Nilsson Schmilsson is an album we think we know well, one that checks off a number of important boxes for us here at Better Records: