Hooker, John Lee - Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive - Super Hot Stamper

Hooker, John Lee - Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive - Super Hot StamperHooker is in the room with you on this pressing, as he should be. The sound is big, rich and lively with a huge bottom end, lots of space, wonderful transparency and real immediacy. This vintage ABC pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records rarely begin to reproduce. Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn't showing any sign of coming back. Having done this for so long, we understand and appreciate that rich, full, solid,

to my satisfaction anyway

you will experience a cleaner

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the bell tree in the right channel on track one is a great test for top end extension

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with a lack of presence and immediacy in the center

so those with a small data sample (in most cases the size of that sample will rarely be more than one) could be forgiven for reaching such a conclusion

and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find pressing that sound as good as these two do

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Almost all the same principles apply

there's some real richness and body to the vocals and