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That Nautilus half speed mastered Rumours you have is the worst of all that I have it in. Worse than the original random LP. Much worse than the 45 reissue. All of which are crap compared to my White Hot Stamper. Those are altogether another level of sound quality. You have to hear one to believe it.
Had one guy Michael drove up from Portland to hear my system, loves Fleetwood Mac, had me play him two tracks off the Rumours 45. Which honestly sounds really good. So good he says that's gonna be hard to beat. Then after the White Hot Stamper, no contest. Not even close.
Tom Petty, I have the Damn the Torpedoes White Hot Stamper and its really awfully good but my White Hot Stamper of Southern Accents is so freakishly good its hard to believe. Never in my life dreamed TP was a stone cold hard core audiophile. Probably this is what it takes to find out.
Hot Stampers are not new records. They are not quiet. If you want quiet keep buying reissues. They don't sound anywhere near as good. But they do tend to be more quiet.
If you want really killer sound quality AND dead quiet vinyl the only one I know is the new Patricia Barber Impex 1Step 45 Cafe Blue. Probably as close as we will ever get to the master tape without going to open reel.
Next after that, another 45 limited, Jennifer Warnes, The Well. Simply sublime, deep and liquid, and with several extra tracks that are so good its hard to see how they didn't make the original release. Especially the last one, Born in Time, which is unavailable anywhere else, only on this 45, and alone is worth the price of the whole album!
Another one everyone should know about, Janis Ian, Breaking Silence. Superb audiophile classic and some of the best adult pop music ever recorded. Its all tube, she even uses a tube mic, and one track Some People's Lives is recorded live to two-track. Killer sonics.
My wild card, the Sheffield Labs LP of Michael Ruff, Speaking in Melodies. Good luck finding a copy. Discogs has two, couple hundred bucks. I would snap up the RTI test pressing if I was you. If it was disc 2 I would have bought it, that's the side with the full length version of I Will Find You There with the most incredible live improv you ever heard. This kind of thing simply never seems to make it on tape any more. It does here! This is not one I play a lot but every time I do I get the feeling this is the most alive you are there of anything I have, and look at the list. https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=680042&ev=mb&format=Vinyl
That Nautilus half speed mastered Rumours you have is the worst of all that I have it in. Worse than the original random LP. Much worse than the 45 reissue. All of which are crap compared to my White Hot Stamper. Those are altogether another level of sound quality. You have to hear one to believe it.
Had one guy Michael drove up from Portland to hear my system, loves Fleetwood Mac, had me play him two tracks off the Rumours 45. Which honestly sounds really good. So good he says that's gonna be hard to beat. Then after the White Hot Stamper, no contest. Not even close.
Tom Petty, I have the Damn the Torpedoes White Hot Stamper and its really awfully good but my White Hot Stamper of Southern Accents is so freakishly good its hard to believe. Never in my life dreamed TP was a stone cold hard core audiophile. Probably this is what it takes to find out.
Hot Stampers are not new records. They are not quiet. If you want quiet keep buying reissues. They don't sound anywhere near as good. But they do tend to be more quiet.
If you want really killer sound quality AND dead quiet vinyl the only one I know is the new Patricia Barber Impex 1Step 45 Cafe Blue. Probably as close as we will ever get to the master tape without going to open reel.
Next after that, another 45 limited, Jennifer Warnes, The Well. Simply sublime, deep and liquid, and with several extra tracks that are so good its hard to see how they didn't make the original release. Especially the last one, Born in Time, which is unavailable anywhere else, only on this 45, and alone is worth the price of the whole album!
Another one everyone should know about, Janis Ian, Breaking Silence. Superb audiophile classic and some of the best adult pop music ever recorded. Its all tube, she even uses a tube mic, and one track Some People's Lives is recorded live to two-track. Killer sonics.
My wild card, the Sheffield Labs LP of Michael Ruff, Speaking in Melodies. Good luck finding a copy. Discogs has two, couple hundred bucks. I would snap up the RTI test pressing if I was you. If it was disc 2 I would have bought it, that's the side with the full length version of I Will Find You There with the most incredible live improv you ever heard. This kind of thing simply never seems to make it on tape any more. It does here! This is not one I play a lot but every time I do I get the feeling this is the most alive you are there of anything I have, and look at the list. https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=680042&ev=mb&format=Vinyl