Mitchell, Joni - Shadows and Light - Super Hot Stamper

Mitchell, Joni - Shadows and Light - Super Hot Stamper*NOTE: Side one and side two of these records were not noisy enough to rate our M to EX++ grade, but they're not quite up to our standards for Mint Minus Minus either. If you're looking for quiet vinyl, this is probably not the best copy for you. Four outstanding sides! We recently had a huge shootout for this famous double album and this copy blew our minds with Double Plus sonics from start to finish. This one gives you the kind of you are there

this ain't no Crosby

The Byrds or Jefferson Airplane from the era

you should hear some pretty respectable sound

a second version of the Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould was recorded in this studio

Demo Disc Sound

Speaking of Transparency

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

They're front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt -- Mike Stone in this case -- would have put them

It’s not just the toughest nut to crack in Joni’s catalog

This vintage Atlantic pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records cannot even begin to reproduce

a man who went on to record a few of Coltrane’s most iconic albums for Atlantic (My Favorite Things

are everything that’s good about the analog medium -- smooth