McCartney, Paul - Unplugged - Super Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)

McCartney, Paul - Unplugged - Super Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)Superb sound for this amazing recording! On the better copies, the sound is warmer, richer, and sweeter, or in a word, more analog sounding. You get more extension up top, more weight down low, and more transparency in the midrange. It's surprising how veiled and two dimensional so many copies can be, considering that this is a live recording (by the legendary Geoff Emerick himself) with not a lot of "messing around" after the fact. This vintage

You will have a very hard time finding two copies of Pepper that sound alike in all these areas

and Charlie Rouse's sax sounds just right -- totally free of the "RVG squawk" we often hear on old Blue Notes

you may even be inclined to start the shootout process all over again

This is one of our favorite orchestra-backed jazz records here at Better Records

having cut scores if not hundreds of records for Nonesuch in the 60s and 70s

who own good equipment and who have well-developed critical listening skills

Heavy Weather is a difficult record to reproduce

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

German Pressings

not to find the perfect pressing because there isn't one in my experience

better yet

The album that gets my vote for Herschberg's Pop Engineering Masterpiece would have to be Michael McDonald's If That's What It Takes