Dire Straits - Communique - White Hot Stamper

Dire Straits - Communique - White Hot StamperThis pressing is super spacious, sweet and positively dripping with ambience. Talk about Tubey Magic, the liquidity of the sound here is positively uncanny. This is vintage late 70s analog at its best, so full bodied and relaxed you'll wonder how it ever came to be that anyone seriously contemplated trying to improve it. This is the sound of Tubey Magic. No recordings will ever be made like this again, and no CD will ever capture what is in the

SFTBC went to Number One on the charts for a reason

Listen to how grungy and smooth the guitars are on And Your Bird Can Sing -- they are close to perfection

For the first time in my life

In 2008 I had the opportunity to hear Ken speak at an AES meeting here in Los Angeles

They do it so much better than any other medium that there is really no comparison and certainly no substitute

With the leaner copies it’s a good album

"The result was an astonishing gain of transparency

but of course that's impossible

When you get a good copy of this album

We had an original British pressing in a shootout years back

"It Never Rains

The brass is never "blary" the way it can be on so many Big Band or Dance Band records from the 50s and 60s