Evans, Bill - How My Heart Sings - Super Hot Stamper

Evans, Bill - How My Heart Sings - Super Hot StamperThis vintage Riverside recording 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 feeling as if you are sitting in the studio with the band, this is the record for you. It's what vintage all analog recordings are known for this sound. If you exclusively

The biggest problem we ran into with this album is that almost every copy we've played over the years sounded small and lifeless

Weather Report's Sweetnighter

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

along the lines of The Grateful Dead circa American Beauty

This music really needs that kind of megawatt reproduction to make sense

and we do it on a regular basis

60 seconds about 1/2 way into track 1 on side 2

This is fundamentally a pure rock record

Then you need top extension

It's yet another remarkable disc from the Golden Age of Vacuum Tube Recording

The orchestra is solid and full-bodied

and much better writer