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				White Hot Stamper Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young So Far (Item #: crosbsofar_1906) Our Price: $449.99 This stunning copy offers insanely good Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound on the first side and solid Double Plus (A++) sound on the second - fairly quiet vinyl too Huge, rich and energetic, this pressing brings the gorgeous harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young to life like nothing you have ever heard The two exclusive tracks, Ohio and Find the Cost of Freedom, are amazingly well recorded - both have Demo Disc sound here If you've made the mistake of buying any Heavy Vinyl pressing containing any of these songs, this record will show you just exactly what you've been missing More So Far / More CSN&Y more Info


				Super Hot Stamper Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Deja Vu (Item #: crosbdejav_1905_1) Our Price: $249.99 A superb Big and Bold copy that earned seriously good sonic grades of Double Plus (A++) on both sides The sound is HUGE -- lively, present and rich in a way that nothing you've heard can compete with One of our all time favorite albums at Better Records and one that almost never sounds THIS good 5 stars: "...this variety made Déjà Vu a rich musical banquet for the most serious and personal listeners, while mass audiences reveled in the glorious harmonies and the thundering electric guitars..." See all of our Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young albums in stock more Info


				Super Hot Stamper Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young So Far (Item #: crosbsofar_1904) Our Price: $199.99 You'll find solid Double Plus (A++) sound on both sides of this outstanding copy of So Far - exceptionally quiet vinyl too The sound on this superb pressing is full-bodied and lively, with solid and present vocals, as well as vocal dynamics that are hard to find on most rock records The two exclusive tracks, Ohio and Find the Cost of Freedom, are amazingly well recorded - both sound fantastic here If you've made the mistake of buying any Heavy Vinyl pressing containing any of these songs, this record will show you just exactly what you've been missing More So Far / More CSN&Y more Info


				White Hot Stamper Neil Young Hawks and Doves (Item #: younghawks_1901_1905) Our Price: $199.99 An exceptional pressing with Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound on the first side and a solid Double Plus (A++) side two - exceptionally quiet vinyl too The trick on this album is to find rich, smooth, edge-free sound, and this copy delivers those qualities like nothing else we played all day "Hawks and Doves has a homey feel. "Little Wing," bare and haltingly lyrical with its miked harp and unaccompanied acoustic, is simpler than anything on the folky Comes a Time, and the rest of the music is defined by Ben Keith's laconic dobro and steel and Rufus Thobodeaux's sawing fiddle." Robert Christgau (A-) See all of our Neil Young albums in stock more Info


				Super Hot Stamper Crosby, Stills and Nash CSN (Item #: crosbcsn_1812_1_1905) Our Price: $179.99 This superb sounding copy of CSN earned outstanding Double Plus (A++) grades for sound on both sides The sound is big and rich, yet still wonderfully clean, clear and open with fantastic energy - you will not believe all the space and ambience here Includes CSN classics Just A Song Before I Go and Fair Game 4 stars: "It has held up remarkably well, both as a memento of its time, and as a thoroughly enjoyable musical work." See all of our Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young albums in stock more Info


				Super Hot Stamper (Quiet) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 4 Way Street (Item #: crosb4ways_1905) Our Price: $149.99 Consistently outstanding sound for CSN&Y's classic live double album, with all four sides boasting solid Double Plus (A++) sound or close to it AND exceptionally quiet vinyl This live album gives you the "naked" sound of the real thing - the real voices and the real guitars and the real everything else, in a way that would never happen again Their brilliant engineer, Bill Halverson, worked his magic here, but only the best pressings let his genius shine the way this one does Rolling Stone raves that "Crosby, Stills. Nash, and Young are all performers of unquestionable talent, and mostly because they stay out of each others' way, 4 Way Street must surely be their best album to date." See all of our Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young albums in stock more Info


				Super Hot Stamper (with issues) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Deja Vu (Item #: crosbdejav_1905) Our Price: $149.99 A superb Big and Bold copy that earned seriously good sonic grades of Double Plus (A++) on both sides The sound is HUGE -- lively, present and rich in a way that nothing you've heard can compete with One of our all time favorite albums at Better Records and one that almost never sounds THIS good 5 stars: "...this variety made Déjà Vu a rich musical banquet for the most serious and personal listeners, while mass audiences reveled in the glorious harmonies and the thundering electric guitars..." See all of our Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young albums in stock more Info


				Super Hot Stamper Crosby, Stills and Nash Daylight Again (Item #: crosbdayli_1905) Our Price: $129.99 This outstanding copy of Daylight Again (the last good record these guys would ever make) earned solid Double Plus (A++) sonic grades - relatively quiet vinyl too This is the embodiment of the Classic CSN sound we love - rich, full-bodied, warm, punchy, dynamic and clear Steven Barncard, one of our favorite recording engineers, no doubt deserves most of the credit Allmusic on Wasted on the Way and Southern Cross: "Both were extracted as singles and became among the best-known tracks not only on Daylight Again, but also in the post-'60s CSN canon." See all of our Crosby, Stills and Nash albums in stock more Info


				Super Hot Stamper Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 4 Way Street (Item #: crosb4ways_1905_1) Our Price: $99.99 Consistently outstanding sound for CSN&Y's classic live double album, with all four sides boasting solid Double Plus (A++) sound or close to it This live album gives you the "naked" sound of the real thing - the real voices and the real guitars and the real everything else, in a way that would never happen again Their brilliant engineer, Bill Halverson, worked his magic here, but only the best pressings let his genius shine the way this one does Rolling Stone raves that "Crosby, Stills. Nash, and Young are all performers of unquestionable talent, and mostly because they stay out of each others' way, 4 Way Street must surely be their best album to date." See all of our Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young albums in stock more Info


				Crosby, Still and Nash - Replay Listening in Depth (Item #: crosbrepla_vta) This is another very handy record for setting your VTA. The end of Shadow Captain has loud vocals and punchy bass, which are a bit difficult to reproduce. (Forget trying to get this song to sound good if you don’t have an exceptionally good copy.) The next song is To The Last Whale, which starts with Nash and Crosby's multitracked voices in a big hall. With the correct VTA, their voices should sound silky and sweet. If your arm is too far down in the back, they will get a bit dull. Too high, and they will lose that breathy, "fluffy" quality. And once you get their voices to sound just right, make sure the ending of Shadow Captain is still punchy and dynamic. More Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young more Info


				30 Years of Bad Sounding Deja Vu's Wiped Away in an Instant! (Item #: crosbdejav_30years) A testimonial from a customer for his Hot Stamper Deja Vu discusses what it takes to get good sound from your stereo. (Hint: it's a good sounding record, duh.) I have come to a conclusion - no matter whether I had the best $50,000 amps in the world or a $29,000 phono supply or the $150,000 Wilson Alexandria speakers or all that other incredible stuff that audiophiles lust for - not one of those items can make a shit record sound anything but like a shit record. There is no overcoming the original source material that you play on your stereo system. More on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1970 Masterpiece, Deja Vu more Info


				Crosby Stills & Nash - Crosby Stills & Nash Classic Records Reviewed (Item #: crosbcrosb_debunk_) Sonic Grade: B- Nice enough I suppose, but where’s the Midrange Magic? The Classic 180g version was a revelation when it came out years ago. Bernie actually cut it pretty darn right. However, his mastering chain cannot compete with the one used on the best original pressings. The evidence for this is overwhelming. There simply is no Bernie-Grundman-cut record that is the equal of the best pressings not cut on his current chain that I have heard over the years. (His old cutting system, the one that cut Stardust and Blue and much of the Contemporary catalog, was KILLER. Wonder what happened to it?) See more of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's albums more Info


				Crosby Stills & Nash - Crosby Stills & Nash Listening in Depth (Item #: crosbcrosb_depth) Another in our series of Home Audio Exercises with advice on What to Listen For (WTLF) as you critically evaluate your copy of Crosby, Stills & Nash's first album. Although millions of copies of this album were sold, so few were mastered and pressed well, and so many mastered and pressed poorly, that few copies actually make it to the site as Hot Stampers. We wish that were not the case -- we love the album -- but the copies we know to have the potential for Hot Stamper sound are just not sitting around in the record bins these days. More Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young more Info


				Crosby Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Critical Listening Exercise (WTLF) (Item #: crosbcrosb_test) This commentary from an older Hot Stamper listing for CSN’s debut makes note of some specific qualities in the recording that are a good test for midrange transparency and naturalness. What’s magical about Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young)? Their voices of course. It’s not a trick question. They revolutionized rock music with their genius for harmony. Any good pressing must sound correct on their voices or it has no value whatsoever. A CSN record with bad midrange -- like most of them -- is a worthless record. More Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young more Info


				Crosby, Stills & Nash on Nautilus THE Most Bloated Bass in Half Speed History (Item #: crosbcrosb_nr_debunk) Sonic Grade: F A Hall of Shame pressing and another Half Speed debunked. An audiophile record dealer (of course; who else?) once raved to me about Crosby Stills and Nash on Nautilus. I said "What are you talking about? That version sucks!" He replied "No, it’s great. Helplessly Hoping sounds amazing." More Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4 Way Street Our Shootout Winner from 2012 (Item #: crosb4ways_2012) A distinguished member of the Better Records Rock and Pop Hall of Fame. If you want to hear Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young rock out live in your listening room, this copy will let you do it. It's not easy to find good sound on even one side of this album, let alone all four! More 4 Way Street / More CSN&Y more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4 Way Street What to Listen For (Item #: crosb4ways_wtlf) Another in our series of Home Audio Exercises with advice on What to Listen For (WTLF) as you critically evaluate your copy of the album. If the singers get hard and shrill in the louder passages, then what you have is a pretty typical pressing. Add grit and grain, smeared transients, opacity, surface noise and a lack of weight down low and you'll know why it takes us years to find enough copies to shoot out -- because this is what most pressings sound like. More 4 Way Street / More CSN&Y more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu An Album We Are Clearly Obsessed With (Item #: crosbdejav_obsess) DEJA VU is an album we admit to being obsessed with -- just look at the number of commentaries we've written about it. We love the album and we hope you do too. If you have some time on your hands -- maybe a bit too much time on your hands -- please feel free to check out our commentaries. This link will take you to all of our other Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young albums. more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu Latest Developments (Item #: crosbdejav_wrong_2016) There are two areas in which we would like to amend some of the previous comments we've made about Deja Vu. The first has to do with early pressings. Many years ago we wrote the following: As we noted in previous commentary, the originals are uniformly awful. Want some inside info on stampers to avoid, free of charge? C and D are pretty bad news most of the time. Although that's still true -- Deja Vu is a very difficult album to find with good sound no matter what stampers you have -- we now know that there are very good sounding copies, Shootout Winning copies in fact, with early stampers. More on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1970 Masterpiece, Deja Vu more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu A Review of the Classic Records Pressing (Item #: crosbdejav_classic_records) Sonic Grade: F A Hall of Shame pressing and another Classic Records LP badly mastered for the benefit of credulous audiophiles. If you bought the Classic Record Heavy Vinyl pressing, you should know by now how badly Classic Records ripped you off. More on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1970 Masterpiece, Deja Vu more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu A Tale of Two MoFi Pressings (Item #: crosbdejav_mofi_debunk) Sonic Grade: F (or not!) A Hall of Shame pressing and another MoFi LP debunked. Just for fun about 10 years ago I pulled out a MoFi pressing of Deja Vu I had laying around. I hadn't played their version in a long time. I could have gone a lot longer without playing it, because what I heard was pretty disappointing. Playing their record confirmed all my prejudices. The highs sizzled and spit. The heart of the midrange was recessed and sour. More on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1970 Masterpiece, Deja Vu more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu Our Four Plus Side Two from 2016 (Item #: crosbdejav_2016) A distinguished member of the Better Records Rock Hall of Fame We award this copy's side two our very special Four Plus A++++ grade, which is strictly limited to pressings (really, individual sides of pressings) that take a recording to a level never experienced by us before, a level we had no idea could even exist. We estimate that less than one per cent of the Hot Stamper pressings we come across in our shootouts earn this grade. You can't get much more rare than that. More Deja Vu more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu Our Shootout Winner from 2007 (Item #: crosbdejav_2007) A distinguished member of the Better Records Rock Hall of Fame and another in the long list of recordings that really comes alive when you Turn Up Your Volume. MASTER TAPE SOUND ON BOTH SIDES -- Folks, it just doesn’t get any better than this. To say this copy murders the competition is the understatement of the year. There is only ONE stamper that gives you the Deja Vu magic from top to bottom and this is it. [We know now that that isn't true.] More on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Masterpiece, Deja Vu more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far Listening in Depth (Item #: crosbsofar_depth) Presenting another entry in our extensive Listening in Depth series with advice on what to listen for as you critically evaluate your copy of So Far. For example, on Find the Cost of Freedom the best copies have DEMO DISC QUALITY SOUND. You could say everything that needs to be said about the beauty of analog with this one track alone. It's not even two minutes long, but it's two really wonderful minutes of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at the height of their powers. The voices should sound as sweet and as silky as any CSN three part (four part?) harmony you have ever heard. This song rivals Helplessly Hoping for vocal blend. More So Far more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far Our Shootout Winner from 2007 (Item #: crosbsofar_2007) A distinguished member of the Better Records Rock Hall of Fame. This Hot Stamper copy has SUPERB SOUND ON SIDE TWO -- the best we’ve ever heard. It sounds like it was made from the MASTER TAPE, and believe me, not many of them do. This LP killed any and all of the competition during this shootout; no other copy earned Three Pluses on Side Two. The sound is BIG and BOLD as it gets -- it practically LEAPS out of the speakers. That's what we call Hot Stamper sound. No other copy did that, on side two anyway. Side one has the highly-coveted unreleased material, so this copy, with "only" an excellent side one, is being priced somewhat more competitively and represents real value for money. More So Far more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far Our Shootout Winner from 2012 (Item #: crosbsofar_2012) A distinguished member of the Better Records Rock Hall of Fame. We've put together two Shootout Winning White Hot Stamper sides to give you the ultimate So Far. It took two separate records to do it, however, as most copies of the album do not rise above the level of mediocre, and mediocre is not what we sell here at Better Records. The killer sides here sound like they are made from the MASTER TAPE. They trounced any and all comers during the shootout. No other copies earned Three Pluses, only these two. More So Far / More CSN&Y more Info


				Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Music Does the Driving (Item #: crosbstillsandnash_overview) Of course it's easy to argue that finding good sound on an album with two or more members of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, in any configuration, has never been easy. It's the rare copy of either of the first two albums that's even listenable, and the CSN album from 1977 doesn't sound nearly as good as any of the first three Crosby/Nash albums. Which simply means that the "good" sound of our Hot Stamper copies is far better than what most audiophiles own of any of these guys in combination. See all of our Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young albums in stock more Info


				Detail on Crosby Stills and Nash’s First Album Holy Grail or Audio Trap? (Item #: crosbcrosb_detail) Detail may be the Holy Grail to most audiophiles, but detail can be a trap we all too easily fall into if we are not careful. Tonal balance is the key. Without it no judgments about detail have any real value. One example: As good as the Classic Heavy Vinyl pressing is, the guitar at the opening of Helplessly Hoping tells you everything you need to know about what’s missing. The guitar on the Hot Stamper domestic copies has a transparency that cannot be found on Classic’s version. The Classic gets the tonal balance right, but their guitar doesn’t have the subtlety and harmonic resolution of the real thing. More Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young more Info


				How to Find a Hot Stamper Deja Vu Hint: Ignore Conventional Wisdom (Item #: crosbdejav_conventionalwisdom) A testimonial from a customer for his Hot Stamper Deja Vu provides a forum for the discussion of just what are the higher fidelity pressings. Never make the mistake of confusing Better Sounding pressing with More Original pressing; they have nothing -- and I mean nothing -- to do with each other. It’s just another Record Collecting Canard. The audio world is full of them. More on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1970 Masterpiece, Deja Vu more Info


				The Brilliant Recorded Legacy of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young (Item #: allcsny) Recordings featuring the work of David Crosby Recordings featuring the work of Stephen Stills Recordings featuring the work of Graham Nash Recordings featuring the work of Neil Young Some of our favorite engineers worked on the albums of these four men, principally Bill Halverson, as well as... more Info


				The Turn Up Your Volume Test Almost Cut My Hair (Item #: crosbdejav_volume_2014) Another in our series of Home Audio Exercises. The only time Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young actually sound like a real rock and roll band is on the track Almost Cut My Hair. According to Stephen Barncard, one of the engineers on Deja Vu, the track was actually recorded live in the studio. Boy, it sure sounds like it. The amount of energy the band generates on this one song exceeds the energy of the entire first album put together. More on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1970 Masterpiece, Deja Vu more Info


				VTA Adjustment Helplessly Hoping to Get It Right (Item #: crosbsofar_wtlf) This listing from 2005 (!) contains commentary about Vertical Tracking Angle (VTA) adjustment using the track Helplessly Hoping from a Hot Stamper pressing of CSN’s So Far. More So Far / More CSN&Y more Info


				VTA Adjustment on Crosby Stills and Nash Using the Classic Records Heavy Vinyl LP (2005) (Item #: crosbcrosb_vta_200) This listing contains commentary about VTA adjustment for 200 gram vinyl, using the CSN track Helplessly Hoping. Helplessly Hoping is a wonderful song with plenty of energy in the midrange and upper midrange area which is difficult to get right. Just today (4/25/05) I was playing around with VTA, having recently installed a new Dynavector DV-20x on my playgrading table (a real sweetheart, by the way), and this song showed me EXACTLY how to get the VTA right. More Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young more Info


				Crosby Stills Nash (&) Young (Item #: _CrosbyStillsNashYoung) Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young albums in stock more Info

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