More of the Music of Simon and Garfunkel
Reviews and Commentaries for Bridge Over Troubled Water
Sonic Grade: C
What’s an easy way to recognize the better pressings?
They’re the ones with textured strings in the orchestral arrangements.
The string tone on the average copy is hard and steely.
The Classic 200 gram pressing suffers from a case of steely strings. When the strings are blasting away at the end of the title song, you want to be able to hear the texture without the strings sounding shrill and edgy.
This is no mean feat, for the record or the stereo.
Here are some of the other records we’ve discovered are good for testing string tone and texture.