Manzanera, Phil - Diamond Head - Nearly White Hot Stamper (With Issues)

Manzanera, Phil - Diamond Head - Nearly White Hot Stamper (With Issues)*NOTE: There is mark that plays 17 times at a moderate level at the start of track 3 on side 2, "Lagrima." These Nearly White Hot Stamper pressings have top quality sound that's often surprisingly close to our White Hots, but they sell at substantial discounts to our Shootout Winners, making them a relative bargain in the world of Hot Stampers ("relative" meaning relative considering the prices we charge). We feel you get what you pay for here at

produced mostly by Elvis Costello) and the darker but equally brilliant Sweets from a Stranger (1982)

listen carefully for the effects we describe

his first album to make the Top Ten on the jazz charts

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" "Memory Hotel" and "Hey Negrita"

The sound of the better pressings can be wonderfully silky and sweet

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not the smear and thickness so common to most LPs

This vintage Capitol pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records can barely BEGIN to reproduce

and we loved what we were hearing

I'd say the sound here is substantially better than what you typically get on that album

The biggest problem with the sound of Johnny Cash At San Quentin that we encounter in our shootouts is grain