Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of The Rolling Stones Available Now
How good are the original Unboxed Deccas on Satanic Majesties?
They can be very good.
But they are never as good as the right later pressings with the Decca in a box label, the ones produced from about 1970 on.
The Unboxed Decca pressing earned a Super Hot Stamper grade (A++). The later pressing, with the right stamper, showed us just how good the album can sound.
Since the originals are pricey and hard to find, and, as a rule, noisier than the later pressings, we don’t pick them up unless we find them for cheap, which rarely happens. They have not won any shootouts, and that is very unlikely to change.
There is one set of stampers for this album that always wins, and those stampers are not found on the early label.