More on the Pitfalls of Conventional Thinking
It’s amazing how many records that used to sound bad — or least problematic — now sound pretty darn good.
Every one of them is proof that comments about recordings are of limited value.
The recordings don’t change. Our ability — and yours — to find, clean and play the pressings made from them does, and that’s what Hot Stampers are all about.
You have a choice. You can choose to take the standard audiophile approach, which is to buy the record that is supposed to be the best pressing, check off the box for that title, file it alphabetically on the shelf where it goes and sleep soundly knowing that all is now right with the world, or at least that title.
You did the right thing, you bought the pressing you were told to buy, the one you read the reviews about, the one on the list, the one they said was made from the real analog tape, mastered by one of the greats, the one pressed on the best vinyl, in a limited run, and on and on down the list.
When — sometimes if but usually when — the sound of the record doesn’t live up to the hype surrounding it, you merely accept the fact that the recording itself must be at fault.
We did it too, more times than I care to admit.
Instead of heading toward that dead end, perhaps you should consider adopting our approach, an approach that allows you to hear those very same albums sound dramatically better than you ever thought possible. In fact, many of our customers have written to tell us what a revelation our Hot Stamper pressings of albums they were familiar with turned out to be.
