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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: About the Playbacks’ Thinkability.
Post Subject: The right stuffPosted by drdna on: 1/31/2009
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 Paul S wrote:
For a while there, every system change I made that "improved" the sound also limited my musical choices. But the most recent round of changes has had the opposite effect, much to my delight, and I have been amazed by how well great performances of great music survive even poor recordings.
Paul, what you say is correct. It sounds as if you are moving in the right direction. In my mind, any "improvement" in my stereo that reduces my options and ability to enjoy music is no improvement at all.

I am a big believer that older recordings have all the necessary stuff contained to allow us access to the music. The engineers simply did not have the technology to screw up the recordings too much. When I refer to bad recordings I am referring more to heavily processed multi-tracked pop efforts a la Brittney Spears, etc.

Adrian

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