Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Super Hot Stamper

We’ve heard some awful, awful, just really awful sounding pressings of this album over the course of the last twenty years. If you own the album, you know what I’m talking about. Clean originals that we’d hoped would have the goods rarely lasted more than 30 seconds on our table, they were that bad. But that was part of the problem -- the originals on the plum and gold label tend to be more crude and distorted than the yellow label reissues. That was just dumb "original is better" record collector thinking. If anybody should know better, it’s us. When we finally got hold of some promising reissues it was only a matter of time before a shootout could be scheduled. In the case of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, finding enough clean copies took us about five years. One or two a year, that’s how many clean copies we can find by going to multiple, high volume, high turnover record stores here in L.A. every week. Dubby-Da-Vida The craziest thing we learned in our shootout is that something close to half