Comments on: Led Zeppelin – Stoke 1973 (no label) http://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com/led-zeppelin/led-zeppelin-stoke-1973-no-label/ The Standard In Live Release Analysis Sun, 19 May 2013 06:12:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: LedMan http://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com/led-zeppelin/led-zeppelin-stoke-1973-no-label/comment-page-1/#comment-6224 LedMan Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:13:24 +0000 http://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com/led-zeppelin/led-zeppelin-stoke-1973-no-label/#comment-6224 This soundboard source has come a long way since it was first pressed on discs. One of the first titles I bought was “Broken Fingers” from the Image Quality label. That tape source was damaged and therefore a very tough listen for my ears. I agree that “IQ” put out some great releases however this was not one of them.

I thought Live At Trentham Gardens (Empress Valley EVSD-394/395) had a little too much background noise and bass.
This release doesn’t suffer from the same problems that the Image Quality does.

Listening to the release reviewed above, I think it has a warmer, smoother sound compared to most of the previous releases. Very enjoyable for me to listen to and a surprise since I expected it to sound the same compared to the most recent releases.

I seem to remember that recently a Zeppelin fan torrented what they claimed was the best sounding soundboard source and suspect this release originated from that torrent. That doesn’t bother me the least bit since this site focuses mostly on silver pressed releases and I would rather have the best sounding version on silvers.

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