Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Oscar Peterson Available Now
I’ve known this was a well recorded album since I first heard the excellent DCC Gold CD back in the 90s.
If you happen to own the DCC vinyl, buy the CD and find out for yourself if it doesn’t have better sound.
The vinyl will most likely be thick, opaque, airless and tonally too smooth.
That is the sound their records tended to have back in those days, and at the time I bought into that mastering approach.
Over the course of the next decade I learned how foolish I had been to fall for that kind of euphonic EQ.
The better the system, the more second-rate Hoffman’s remastered vinyl releases will sound when they aren’t just terrible.
And Kevin Gray, his partner in crime, has been making a mockery of the audiophile LP for decades now.
Testing with Oscar
We write quite a bit about how good pianos are for testing your system, room, tweaks, electricity and all the rest, not to mention turntable setup and adjustment.