Hot Stamper Pressings of Excellent Jazz Recordings Available Now
If you see this OJC pressing in your local record store, best to skip it.
The sound is dry and bright. It’s passable, but it’s certainly not very good, and even the CD might be better, assuming you are willing to go through a number of discs until you find one that is mastered properly, assuming that there ever was such a thing.
Finding good sounding pressings of classic albums has never been easy. Here are some tips that may help you make more progress.
Original Jazz Classics
Some OJC pressings are great — including even some of the new ones. Some are awful. And the only way to judge them fairly is to judge them individually, which requires actually playing a large enough sample.
Since virtually no record collectors or audiophiles like doing that, they make faulty judgments – OJC’s are cheap reissues sourced from digital tapes, run for the hills! – based on their lack of rigor, among other things, when comparing pressings.