PhilCTTE
Senior mumbler
I find that sadly a significant majority of recordings are pretty poor - but a select few are just stunning recordings!
Even older recordings can be incredibly good! - and many are!
Modern Pop recordings on the whole are generally really terrible bright, hard & shrill
I work with musicians who are so fed-up with the SQ of PC based editing software such as Pro-tools that they are rebuilding old 24 track recorders recently a good friend even bought from auction an ex BBC unit weighing over 350kg!!! Every couple of days I get a Skype message asking for help to understand a circuit section as they rebuild the machine!!! Its fascinating trying to understand old circuits where Analogue engineering was really a true art, nowadays its just Digital trash full of OPAMPs and DSP
I've even encountered discs that sound brilliant - but which have got "scuffed up" over time - so I buy a later "pressing" only to find it sounds totally inferior - analyses on the computer shows the data is not the same.
So what appears to be a good recording is not necessarily true for later Pressings"
John
Does this mean I'll have to start listening to Peter Gabriel (B&W Society of Sound)
I think I'll have to broaden my tastes