King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King - White Hot Stamper (With Issues)

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King - White Hot Stamper (With Issues)Over the many years of doing shootouts for this album, we've listened to a lot of different pressings. Right from the start we could hear that no domestic pressing was, or was likely to ever be, remotely competitive with the best Brits. Most later reissues domestic or import were as flat and lifeless as a cassette, although we admit that some were clearly better than others. The MoFi pressing is one of their best. Unfortunately we have little

showing us the kind of sound we never expected from a fairly unprepossessing early 60s jazz piano trio record such as this

causing Taylor and crew’s voices to take on a lean or gritty quality

But this is no ordinary recording

It's energetic

So the best copies are the reissues

What The Best Sides Of Music For Strings Percussion And Celeste / Divertimento Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear

most of the time the highs come back

-- you will have a very hard time finding a better sounding recording of it than this

Robbie Montgomery

then it too is true

We discuss in detail what we're listening for and what the best copies do well that the run-of-the-mill copies simply cannot

but none of them sound like these two