Spandau Ballet - True - Super Hot Stamper

Spandau Ballet - True - Super Hot StamperLike so many British bands on the Chrysalis label, when it came time to master the album for our domestic market, not theirs, the people in charge (whoever they may have been) took the easy way out and simply ordered up a dub of the tape to send across the pond. Too many wonderful albums by highly accomplished bands had their records ruined by sub generation masters. (Ruined for audiophiles. The general public couldn't care less.) But this is the real

as record collectors

We consider this album Janis's Masterpiece

It seems that no effort or cost was spared in making the home listening experience as compelling as the recording technology of the day permitted

The kind of systems that guys like me have been slaving over for thirty years

just to name the ones whose work I know well

And where else are you gonna get that these days

Astrud Gilberto does wonderful versions too

and Shelly Manne

practically not ever

Kenneth Wilkinson or the Decca "Tree" microphone setup

augmented with various jazz musicians (Ray Brown

Wonderful Music and Sound