Hot Stamper Pressings of Jazz Recordings Featuring the Saxophone Available Now
The copies of the 80s OJC we’ve played over the years have been thin, hard, tizzy up top and devoid of Tubey Magic.
I think I used to like it a long time ago, in the same way I used to like a lot of questionable pressings a long time ago, back when I had a darker and less revealing system whose limitations covered up for the weaknesses of this and plenty of other OJC pressings.
By the way, our Shootout Winning Gold Label Mono pressing went for big bucks, 1000 of them in fact. A clean original goes for many times that, which is one reason you have never seen such a record on our site. How much would we have to charge for a Hot Stamper pressing of an album we paid many thousands of dollars for? Far more than our customers would be willing to pay us, that’s for sure.
How About the DCC?
If you don’t want to pay the big bucks we charge for good pressings containing this music, try the DCC pressing from 1995.
The DCC Heavy Vinyl pressing is probably a nice record. I haven’t played one in many years, but I remember liking it back in the day. The 2011 OJC pressing is made from the same metalwork as the DCC vinyl. Maybe that one sounds good. I doubt we will ever find out as we have been done with these kinds of records for a very long time.
However, on a decidedly contrarian note, I would be surprised if the DCC Gold CD isn’t even better sounding than their vinyl pressing.
They usually are.
Steve Hoffmann brilliantly mastered many classic albums for DCC. I like DCC’s CDs much better than their records.
Their records did not have to fight their way through Kevin Gray’s opaque, airless, low-rez, transistory cutting system, a subject we discussed in some depth here.