Clapton, Eric - Self-Titled - Super Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)

Clapton, Eric - Self-Titled - Super Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)This is not your usual Clapton album, and thats a good thing because most Clapton albums are full of filler. Not so here almost every song is good, and many are superb. This vintage Polydor pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records can barely BEGIN to reproduce. Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn't showing signs of coming back. If you love hearing INTO a recording, actually being able to "see" the performers, and

It's a recording that belongs in any serious popular music collection

more than anything else a Hot Stamper must succeed at recreating a solid

the more the air is being sucked out of the room

And how many even dedicated audiophiles would have more than one or two clean original copies with which to do a shootout

Note that none of the British copies we played were thin and anemic

Those are many of our very favorite Joni songs

That’s crazy talk

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

can begin to sound the way this record sounds

What was odd about it -- odd to most audiophiles but not necessarily to us -- was just how rich and Tubey Magical the reissue can be on the right pressing

Almost all of Stevie Ray Vaughan's recordings seem to have some edge to his vocals -- the man really belts it out on his albums

consequently the studio or stage will be missing much of its natural air and space