The highest quality equipment, on the hottest Hot Stamper copies, will play the loudest and most difficult to reproduce passages with virtually no edge, grit or grain, even at very loud levels. Almost all copies have at least some edge to the vocals - the boys want to really belt it out in the choruses, and they do - but the best copies keep the edge under control, without sounding compressed, dark, dull or smeary. Number Two: edgy vocals, which is related to Number One above. Consequently, the upper midrange area does not get overloaded and overwhelmed with musical information.
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With the more solid sounding copies, the lower mids are full and rich above them, the next “level up” so to speak, there’s plenty of space in which to fit all the instruments and voices comfortably, not piling them one on top of another as is often the case. When the tonality is shifted-up, even slightly, or there is too much compression, there will be too many elements - voices, guitars, drums - vying for space in the upper part of the midrange, causing congestion and a loss of clarity. Number One: Too many instruments and voices jammed into too little space in the upper midrange. Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does.
No doubt there’s more but we hope that should do for now. Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space.Natural tonality in the midrange - with all the instruments having the correct timbre.Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low.Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1977 The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing.The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space.They’re also more open and transparent, with notably improved clarity, less smear, and better bass.įind your favorite song on here, drop the needle, and see if the dramatically improved sound doesn’t bring back some special memories, and maybe even inspire you to bust a move! What The Best Sides Of Saturday Night Fever Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear The good news here is that most of the tracks you’d hope to be impressive actually are: “Stayin’ Alive,” “How Deep Is Your Love” and “Disco Inferno” are among the better-sounding songs here.Ĭompared to every other copy we played - on all four sides mind you - these sides are richer, fuller, and livelier. Like any compilation, some songs are going to sound better than others. This copy of the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack has truly killer sound throughout, and that ain’t no jive talkin’! We collected a bunch of these and put them through the shootout process and were delighted to find out that some of the material on here can sound wonderful on the best pressings. 5 stars: “Saturday Night Fever is virtually indispensable as a Bee Gees album, not just for the presence of an array of songs that were hits in their own right but because it offered the Gibb brothers as composers as well as artists…”.It’s no walk in the park to find a copy with sound this good and fairly quiet vinyl, but here it is.
There’s real Bee Gees vocal magic here – “Stayin’ Alive,” “How Deep Is Your Love,” “More Than a Woman,” “Jive Talkin’,” and even “A Fifth of Beethoven” all sound great.Please note that the labels on this 2 LP set are slightly mismatched - we’re combining two different copies to make one great sounding set album.
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An incredible copy of this ’70s classic with Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound on the third side, and Double Plus (A++) sound or very close to it on the other three.
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