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Well I don't drink beer anymore but...

But I don't enjoy listening to beautiful music that was butchered by incompetent recording and mixing. And I think the REASON for not liking it is BECAUSE of my love for music, not merely for a love of "good recordings regardless of performance quality".

To me, performance and recording are part of one product. I can sit and IMAGINE how good the live performance "would" or "could" of sounded had the recording not been butchered. But I think an inept recording crew is about as good for a performance as a drunken conductor.

I ask myself: who is really revering music more? The person who listens to beautiful music despite it's poor recording quality? Or the person who refuses to let inept recording engineers profit at the EXPENSE of musicians and audiophiles both?

I don't like supporting recording companies that can't do the only thing they're supposed to KNOW how to do - which is RECORD MUSIC WELL.

If you don't care about recording quality and only care about the music, then why worry about what your system, speakers and room are doing either? If you can listen to crappy recordings and enjoy music, maybe it would stand to reason that you can use cheap sources and speakers too and save a bunch of money in the process. This is, of course, what is implied if a "love for music" is all you need.

In my opinion, love is wonderful - but often it isn't enough.

I want great performances that are masterfully recorded. And there's so much of THAT out there, I don't fret about the odd performance that is butchered beyond use. I really don't think asking for both is as limiting as you are making it out to be.

Cheers,
Presto


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