Kondrashin and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra’s performance of these sublime orchestral works makes its Hot Stamper debut with solid Double Plus (A++)Living Stereosound or BETTER throughout this vintage pressing of LSC 2323
Capriccio Espagnol takes up all of this Nearly Triple Plus (A++ to A+++) side two and is practically as good as we have ever heard it, right up there with our Shootout Winner
Our Shootout Winner was a White Dog pressing as well, with these same stamper numbers – lucky us!
The Shaded Dog pressings can be excellent, but the one pressing that came in last in our shootout was — drum roll, please — a Shaded Dog with a 1s side one, if you can wrap your head around it
Both of these sides are full, rich and clear, with more space and more three-dimensional staging than practically all of the other copies we played
And of course it will completely destroy any pressing you may have on Heavy Vinyl, from any label, at any playback speed
