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RE: So, there's no such thing as a crappy sounding recording?

I'm not really in the mood for a rerun - especially when it's such an obvious and simple topic. Recordings don't have a sound. How a recording sounds is dependent on the system it is being played on.

No doubt the better a system the better we can judge recording quality but there's no reason to assume a correlation between that quality and good/bad sound.

A good recording can sound really bad - think bag pipes or people who aren't up to the sound they are attempting to sing. No doubt for me a low quality recording of great music will sound much better than a high quality recording a bad music - given a musically capable stereo not one that emphasizes attributes of the recording process.

IME bad sound usually indicates a stereo unable to properly deal with a recording.

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