Santana Zebop Half Speed Master Sound Audiophile Original Pressing 1981 NM

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Santana Zebop Half Speed Master Sound Audiophile Original Pressing 1981 NM
Zebop! is the twelfth studio album by Santana. The album has had several releases, and several different color backgrounds for the cover have been produced, including pink and red. It featured "Winning," one of Santana's last commercial hits until Supernatural.
Side one "Changes" (Cat Stevens) – 4:27 "E Papa Ré" (Carlos Santana, Richard Baker, David Margen, Orestes Vilató, Alex Ligertwood) – 4:32 "Primera Invasion" (Lear, Margen, Alan Pasqua, Santana) – 2:08 "Searchin'" (Ligertwood, Santana, Chris Solberg) – 3:54 "Over and Over" (Rick Meyers) – 4:46 "Winning" (Russ Ballard) – 3:28
Side two "Tales of Kilimanjaro" (Pasqua, Armando Peraza, Raul Rékow, Santana) – 3:24 "The Sensitive Kind" (J.J. Cale) – 3:32 "American Gypsy" (Ballard, Lear, Ligertwood) – 3:39 "I Love You Much Too Much" (Alexander Olshanetsky, Don Raye, Chaim Tauber) – 4:43 "Brightest Star" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 4:49 "Hannibal" (Ligertwood, Pasqua, Rékow, Santana) – 3:41
This is a Master Recording.  Half speed mastering on a basic level does exactly what it says in the description. A 33rpm acetate is cut at 16 2/3rpm with the master recording slowed down appropriately so that the record still sounds normal when played at the correct speed.
The reason for going to this effort is that at a half speed pass, the cutting head has more time to render the groove and this allows more information- especially fine detail- to make it into the recording. The head is essentially getting double the amount of time to complete the information, and this has two effects. The first is that there should be more fine detail in a recording when you play it back on a normal record player, and the more advanced your stylus profile is, the better this is going to get. The second is that the cutting process is more stable, so when the recording encounters long sustained notes- the traditional torture test for analogue replay- there should be less sign of waver in the note.

From My Personal Collection
Note - If record is in mint condition but has been opened I grade it as Near Mint, I grade conservative so you get better than expected (smile).
All Vinyl is Professionally Ultrasonic Cleaned before being mailed, and comes with an Outside Plastic Protective Cover.
This Deep Groove vinyl always sounds so much richer and fuller because of the stabilizing affect the heavier vinyl has on the sound vibrations on replay.
Test Played and plays beautifully like new - might have an occasional pop. Vinyl is NM (Near Mint condition) on sides 1 and 2 Cover is NM (Near Mint condition) Labels Clean - no spindle marks, looks never played except by me to test Nice New Sheen Columbia Master Sound – HBL 47158 
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