Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of David Crosby Available Now
UPDATE 2025
The bulk of this listing was written more than ten years ago and updated last year. Please to enjoy!
Also, whatever you do, don’t buy the Super Saver pressing of David Crosby’s debut like the one you see pictured, assuming you want to hear the album sound the way it should. Original only, and the right one of course.
We ran across a website years ago that confirmed our worst prejudices regarding audiophiles and their apparent desire to rely on gurus such as Harry Pearson to tell them which recordings sound good and which don’t.
This flies in the face of everything we stand for here at Better Records.
Since no two records sound the same, a list of so-called Super Discs is practically meaningless.
“Practically meaningless” hits the nail right on the head as far as we are concerned.
Picture yourself standing in your local record store with a record in your hands, one you happen to know is on the TAS List. This knowledge makes the record slightly more likely to sound better than any other record you might have randomly picked up in the store. Insignificantly, trivially more likely. In other words, as a practical matter, not all that much more likely.
Why is this? Three reasons:
- Many Super Discs are not on the TAS List;
- Some of the records on the TAS List are not deserving of Super Disc status; and most importantly,
- Most pressings of titles on the TAS List don’t sound especially good — only the right ones do. (I pictured the David Crosby album you see above with the cover you definitely don’t want in order to hammer home that point.)
But that’s not even the point. Ask yourself this:
Why on earth would anyone want to collect the records on The TAS List, when most of those records contain music that appeals to a very small group of people not named Harry Pearson?