{"product_id":"beatlrevol_2605","title":"Beatles, The - Revolver - Super Hot Stamper","description":"\u003cp\u003eWant to be blown away by Beatles sound you never imagined you would ever have the chance to experience for yourself? Drop the needle on \"Taxman\" on this very side one -- that's your ticket to ride, baby! We were knocked out by it and we guarantee you will be too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis vintage Parlophone 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 feeling as if you are listening live or sitting in the studio with the band, this is the record for you. It's what vintage all analog recordings are known for -- \u003ci\u003ethis sound\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you exclusively play modern repressings of vintage recordings, I can say without fear of contradiction that you have never heard this kind of sound on vinyl. Old records have it -- not often, and certainly not always -- but maybe one out of a hundred new records do, and those are some pretty long odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat The Best Sides Of Revolver Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe most Tubey Magic, without which you have \u003ci\u003ealmost\u003c\/i\u003e nothing. CDs give you clean and clear. Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%221966%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1966\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural tonality in the midrange -- with all the instruments having the correct timbre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTransparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo doubt there's more but we hope that should do for now. \u003ci\u003ePlaying the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThis Is How Good It Can Get\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis superb pressing has all the qualities we look for on Revolver: vocal presence, Tubey Magic, huge weight to the bottom end, and, most importantly of all, \u003cstrong\u003eenergy\u003c\/strong\u003e. It’s also exceptionally smooth, sweet and above all analog-sounding -- the upper-midrange grit and grain that compromise most pressings are nowhere to be found here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's as big and solid as a rock record can sound. The better copies have practically zero coloration. They let us think we are sitting in the control room enjoying the playback with Geoff and George.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike so many copies of the album, the band here is enthusiastic and rockin' like crazy. This copy brings the music to life in a way that few others can. That's our definition of Hot Stamper sound in a nutshell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eListen to how grungy and smooth the guitars are on \u003cstrong\u003eAnd Your Bird Can Sing\u003c\/strong\u003e -- they are close to perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trumpet on \u003cstrong\u003eFor No One\u003c\/strong\u003e has rarely sounded as good as it does here -- you can really hear air and spit being pushed through the horn. That's not phony detail, that's what a real horn sounds like if you are close to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat We're Listening For On Revolver\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEnergy\u003c\/strong\u003e for starters. What could be more important than the life of the music?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThen: \u003cstrong\u003epresence and immediacy\u003c\/strong\u003e. The vocals aren't \"back there\" somewhere, lost in the mix. They're front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt -- \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%22geoff-emerick%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeoff Emerick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e in this case, working on his first album with the boys as Chief Engineer -- would have put them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Big Sound\u003c\/strong\u003e comes next -- wall to wall, lots of depth, huge space, three-dimensionality, all that sort of thing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThen \u003cstrong\u003etransient information\u003c\/strong\u003e -- fast, clear, sharp attacks, not the smear and thickness so common to these LPs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTight punchy bass\u003c\/strong\u003e -- which ties in with good transient information, also the issue of frequency extension further down.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNext: \u003cstrong\u003etransparency\u003c\/strong\u003e -- the quality that allows you to hear deep into the soundfield, showing you the space and air around all the instruments.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExtend the top and bottom\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003ci\u003evoila\u003c\/i\u003e, you have The Real Thing -- an honest to goodness Hot Stamper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere Can I Find Your Mono Beatles Records?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe do not sell Beatles records in mono.\u003c\/p\u003e\nThey spent time on the mono mixes because getting the levels right for all the elements in a recording is ten times harder than deciding whether an instrument or voice should be placed in the left, middle or right of the soundstage.\n\u003cp\u003eAnd they didn’t even do the stereo mixes right some of the time, in our opinion. But wall to wall beats all stacked up in the middle any day of the week.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you like mono Beatles records you will have to do your own shootouts for them, because we have never heard a mono Beatles record sound good enough to compete with our Hot Stamper stereo pressings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eVinyl Condition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMint Minus Minus and maybe a bit better is about as quiet as any vintage pressing will play, and since only the right vintage pressings have any hope of sounding good on this album, that will most often be the playing condition of the copies we sell. (The copies that are even a bit noisier get listed on the site are seriously reduced prices or traded back in to the local record stores we shop at.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose of you looking for quiet vinyl will have to settle for the sound of other pressings and Heavy Vinyl reissues, purchased elsewhere of course as we have no interest in selling records that don't have the vintage analog magic of these wonderful recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you want to make the trade-off between bad sound and quiet surfaces with whatever Heavy Vinyl pressing might be available, well, that's certainly your prerogative, but we can't imagine losing what's good about this music -- the size, the energy, the presence, the clarity, the weight -- just to hear it with less background noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eA Must Own Rock Record\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Demo Disc quality recording should be part of any serious rock collection. Others that belong in that category can be found \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%22core-rock-collection%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beatles, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51796639777064,"sku":"beatlrevol","price":199.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0257\/3415\/2295\/files\/beatlrevol.jpg?v=1737482615","url":"https:\/\/better-records.com\/products\/beatlrevol_2605","provider":"Better Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}