The Magic StampersĪs is sometimes the case, there is one and only one set of stamper numbers that consistently wins our Catch Bull At Four shootouts. 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 1972 The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing.The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space.What the Best Sides of Catch Bull At Four Have to Offer is Not Hard to Hear Freezing Steel really ROCKS on this copy, with super low distortion and virtually no strain in the vocals. The ones that get loud without becoming hard or harsh are the ones that tend to get everything else right at the lower volumes. There are plenty of other very dynamic tracks as well. There’s no shortage of deep, well-defined bass either, allowing the more dynamic songs to really come alive. Silent Sunlight sounds UNREAL - silky, warm, and delicate. His brilliant guitar player Alun Davies is still in the band, and Paul Samwell-Smith is still producing as brilliantly as ever. If you’re familiar with what the best Hot Stamper pressings of Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and the Firecat or Mona Bone Jakon can sound like - amazing is the word that comes to mind - then you should easily be able to imagine how good the best copies of Catch Bull at Four sounds.Īll the ingredients for a Classic Cat Stevens album were in place for this release, which came out in 1972, about a year after Teaser and the Firecat. This is reflected in Cat’s singing, which becomes more assured and more emotive with each album.” “Though some of the lyrics retain Cat’s fanciful imagery… he shows a new emotional directness, especially on side two, the albums “down” side.This British pressing with the right stamper – can show you the sweeter, tubier Midrange Magic that we is the hallmark of all the best Cat Stevens’ recordings.Hard to believe, but it’s true: there is only one stamper that consistently wins shootouts, and the unfortunate fact of the matter is that it took us twenty years to discover it, ouch.Bigger, more dynamic, more lively, more present and just plain more EXCITING than anything we heard – that’s why it won our shootout.
CAT STEVENS CATCH BULL AT FOUR PLUS
With Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound or close to it on both sides, this very specific UK pressing is STUNNING from start to finish.
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