McCartney, Paul & Wings - Wild Life - Super Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)

McCartney, Paul & Wings - Wild Life - Super Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)Lets face it: finding good sounding McCartney records with the exception of the first album is pretty darn tough. From Ram on its slim pickings, even on import. Most of those later albums sound like cassettes; theyre as dead as the proverbial doornail. They bore us to tears. Wild Life stood up and showed us that theres more good sound to be found after McCartneys debut. If you want the ultimate nexus of music and sound for McCartney, a Hot Stamper of

This is yet another definition of a Hot Stamper -- it’s the copy that lets the music work as music

To listen to an album—then clean and treat it—and then listen again within 4-5 minutes and realize that it was a fundamentally different audio experience—was almost enough to give me vertigo

This vintage Living Stereo pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records can barely BEGIN to reproduce

Just listen to Heath's arrangement of "Big Ben

This record has the same kind of amazing sound as the Chabrier disc on London from the same year

these elements end up fighting for space in the midrange and getting lost in the mix

with a lack of presence and immediacy in the center of the soundfield

And now that the list is full of awful Classic Records pressings one has to wonder why anyone would put much stock in it

New York City

and probably by no more than a nose

and should be avoided at any price

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