{"product_id":"brubetimef_2601_2_4x__","title":"Brubeck, Dave - Time Further Out (360) - Super Hot Stamper (With Issues)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*NOTE:\u003c\/strong\u003e There is a mark that plays 8 times at a moderate level about 1\/3 of the way into the last track on side 2, \"Blue Shadows in the Street,\" and again 10 times at a light to moderate level and intermittently thereafter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVintage covers for this album are hard to find in exceptionally clean shape. Most of the will have at least some amount of ringwear, seam wear and edge wear. We guarantee that the cover we supply with this Hot Stamper is at least VG.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTime Further Out\u003c\/strong\u003e is consistently more varied and, dare we say, \u003ci\u003emore musically interesting\u003c\/i\u003e than \u003cstrong\u003eTime Out\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you want to hear big drums in a big room, these Brubeck recordings will show you that sound better than practically any record we know of. These vintage recordings are full-bodied, spacious, three-dimensional, rich, sweet and warm in the best tradition of an All Tube Analog recording.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis vintage 360 Stereo 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 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 Time Further Out 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:%221961%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1961\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\u003eThe Piano\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have full-range speakers, some of the qualities you may recognize in the sound of the piano are \u003cstrong\u003eweight\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ewarmth\u003c\/strong\u003e. The piano is not hard, brittle or tinkly. Instead the better copies show you a wonderfully full-bodied, warm, rich, smooth piano, one which sounds remarkably like the ones we’ve all heard countless times in piano bars and restaurants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn other words like a real piano, not a recorded one. This is what we look for in a good piano recording. Bad mastering can ruin the sound, and often does, along with worn out stampers and bad vinyl and five gram needles that scrape off the high frequencies. But a few -- a very few -- copies survive all such hazards. They manage to reproduce the full spectrum sound of the piano (and of course the wonderful performances of the musicians) on vintage vinyl, showing us the kind of sound we expect from a top quality early Brubeck album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eReal Handclaps\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one standout track on this album for audiophiles is surely \"Unsquare Dance,\" what with its uncannily real sounding handclaps in 7\/4. The copies that did the best job of reproducing that 'flesh on flesh' sound of actual human hands clapping scored very well in our shootout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduction and Engineering\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%22teo-macero%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTeo Macero\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was the producer, and the superbly talented Fred Plaut the engineer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat We're Listening For On Time Further Out\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\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, full-bodied 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\u003eMore To Listen For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor starters listen for a fat snare and rich piano on the first track of side one. When you hear that, assuming you do, you should know you are in for a treat. Our best copies captured those two sounds brilliantly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the second track, the clarity of the brushed snare is key to how resolving and transparent any copy is. The rich, smooth sound of \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%22paul-desmond%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Desmond\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e’s sax balanced against the clarity of the brushes will help you make sure that the overall sound is tonally correct from top to bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn side two, the first track has the wall to wall big drums in a big room sound that positively blows our minds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote that in some places it sounds like the piano is overdriving its mic. We heard that sound on practically every copy we played, so we’re pretty sure it’s on the tape that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eImpex\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you own the Impex pressing from 2011 and would like to hear precisely what you’ve been missing all these years, we would love to send you one of our Hot Stampers. It has the spatial and musical information that no Impex reissue we’ve ever heard is capable of reproducing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir LP will surely be quieter, but that’s cold comfort in our book. The sense that you are in the studio with Brubeck, Desmond, Morello, and Wright is something that the best vintage records  do surprisingly well. In our experience, modern records do a much poorer job of transporting you into that space. If you own their LP we encourage you to give one of ours a try. The difference may surprise you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eVinyl Condition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMint Minus Minus 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 Jazz Record\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTime Further Out is a recording that belongs in any serious jazz collection. Others that belong in that category can be found \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%22core-jazz-collection%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Brubeck, Dave","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51354271351080,"sku":"brubetimef","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0257\/3415\/2295\/files\/brubetimef_2_85a40ad8-1582-447a-b942-b109b4c6c1d6.jpg?v=1703264199","url":"https:\/\/better-records.com\/products\/brubetimef_2601_2_4x__","provider":"Better Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}