Davis, Miles - Miles In The Sky - White Hot Stamper

Davis, Miles - Miles In The Sky - White Hot StamperWe recently finished a big shootout for this superb Miles Davis album and this copy was dramatically better sounding than practically all others we played. Both sides have excellent bass, correct sounding brass, wonderful transparency and loads of Tubey Magic. Many copies didn't have the kind of transparency or openness that we heard here, which made it harder to appreciate the contributions of the different players. This one puts plenty of separation

more transparent soundstage

We played a bunch of them and they were all dogs

present vocals

If Only I Could Remember My Name

and yet we’ve played four or five copies with reversed polarity on side two

Robert Ludwig — No Guarantee of Good Sound

as well as All Things Must Pass

Mastering and Pressing

bass-shy and opaque

carefully warmed up the system

Other big issues were lack of energy

and a listen to one of our Hot Stampers will allow you to hear exactly what you’re not getting when you play an audiophile pressing of In The Court Of The Crimson King