Hot Stamper Classical and Orchestral Pressings Available Now
This shootout was many years in the making – we’d been trying to do these wonderful overtures for about five years, which just goes to show how hard it is nowadays to find records like these in audiophile playing condition.
We also just debuted a Decca recording with Ansermet at the helm under the title French Overtures featuring two of the pieces found here, and it’s every bit as good.
Which one is better is probably a matter of taste as they are both head and shoulders better than any other recordings of the music that we’ve come across in the last five or ten years. This is often what you are paying for when you buy a White Hot Stamper pressing — the best sound we know of for the music.
We admit that “we know of” is doing a good deal of heavy lifting in the preceding sentence, but the world is full of records and we can’t have played them all, so in the unlikely event that we find something better down the road, do not be too surprised, it happens.
Side One
- So huge and tubey
- 3D and spacious and extending high and low
- Lush strings
- More realistic and dynamic
- Big low end
- Tubey
Side Two
- 3D, tubey and lush
- Huge low end and brass
- Realistic space and cymbals
- Not hot at all
Let Me Ask You This
Who else is finding incredible Demo Discs like this EMI from 1972 nowadays?