We cleaned them as carefully as we always do. We recently did one of our regular shootouts for The Wild Heart using early domestic pressings that we’ve learned from experience have the potential for Hot Stamper sound. Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does. No doubt there’s more but we hope that should do for now. Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space.Natural tonality in the midrange - with all the instruments having the correct timbre.Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low.Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes as late as in 1983 The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing.The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space.What The Best Sides Of The Wild Heart Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear

They’ve made some great records together, Damn the Torpedoes being the best of the batch for sonics. Nothing surprising there this album, like Petty’s, was produced and engineered by the same team, Jimmy Iovine and Shelly Yakus. In short, the best copies demonstrate the sound one could expect to hear on a good Tom Petty album. The energy of her performance drives the music the way you want it to. They’re smooth and full-bodied in the midrange. They open up on the top end and go down deeper on the bottom. They’re big and rich, not thin nor harsh. It’s easy to spot the good-sounding copies.

4 stars: “The Wild Heart sold to the faithful - it made the Top Ten, sold over a million copies, and spawned three Top 40 hits… if you loved Bella Donna, you would like The Wild Heart very much.”.

Features a host of stellar guest musicians, including Tom Petty, Mick Fleetwood, Steve Lukather (Toto), and even Prince, though he wasn’t credited on the album.The spacious size, vocal presence, bottom end weight and (relative) warmth throughout are exactly the sound you want for The Wild Heart.This outstanding early Modern Records pressing boasts Double Plus (A++) sound from start to finish.

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