Mitchell, Joni - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Super Hot Stamper

Mitchell, Joni - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Super Hot Stamper*NOTE: There is a superficial mark across track 1 ("In France They Kiss on Main Street") and track 2 ("The Jungle Line") on side 1 that does not play and cannot be heard. Both sides here are airy, open, and spacious, with plenty of ambience. The bottom end is tight and punchy throughout with good solid weight, and the top end is silky sweet. Many copies of this album have a phony hi fi glare that made us wince, but the sound here is warm and natural.

This means it has a quality sorely at odds with the vast majority of audiophile pressiings

which is only fitting: the hottest Hot Stamper copies of this album are sonic blockbusters the likes of which most audiophiles -- especially the ones who don't own top quality turntables -- have never experienced

front and center immediacy

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and warmth

Note how spacious

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What We're Listening For On Kiln House

You can be sure this band full of horn players was moving huge amounts of air in the studio

dull or smeary

an ability of the Proscenium Black Diamond turntable to seem to reach more deeply into the grooves

in the same way that the better copies of Cat Stevens' records get the sound of stringed instruments right