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The Reed combination also demonstrated its own personality in the bass. So rich was it, so free of artifice, that I wanted to simply keep on playing Hayes’ Hot Buttered Soul. But instead it was time to present the Reed package with a challenge: hard rock, – nay, nascent heavy metal – but of a dark, murky sound. It was begging the question asked of all high-performance gear – can it render a so-so recording more listenable… or simply less objectionable?

The hugely underappreciated guitarist Leslie West released a staggering debut called Mountain [Windfall 4500] before he created the band of that name. I have never heard a pressing that isn’t thick-sounding, even when his searing leads break through. While the Reed Muse 1C deck and 3P arm could not remix the album, the benefits were not dissimilar to that sort of makeover for this 1969 release, as if a layer of muck had been removed or a better-generation tape had been found. Something else Reed’s combination unveiled was low-level activity I hadn’t heard before, benefitting in particular the bass and percussion which were otherwise responsible for the murk.

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