Weather Report - Heavy Weather - Super Hot Stamper

The hottest of the Hot Stamper pressings demonstrate that this is a truly amazing recording, with some of the most dynamic, wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling jam-packed sound ever committed to vinyl. The grit, grain and grunge of most pressings is nowhere to be found on these killer sides, and that alone puts them in a very special league indeed. What To Listen For We've discovered that the key to the hottest sounding pressings is a fairly simple one: the copies with high-frequency extension and the tremendous rhythmic energy that results from it are consistently the best sounding. You may have read elsewhere on the site that what separates many of the best Columbia LPs from their competition is an open, extended top end. For some reason, Columbia, seemingly more than any other label, had a bad habit of making slightly dull records. Slightly dull does not work for this album. My notes on "Palladium" under the Tracklist heading sum it up: when the highs on the record are right, it almost a