"The remastering engineer took out the EQ curve"?

I am guessing that you are referring to some effort on the part of the original engineers to soften the extreme low bass and extreme treble so as to suit the playback equipment of the 50s, because surely you don't mean that the remastering engineer took out the RIAA equalization curve. If I do understand you correctly, is there concrete evidence that recording engineers of the 50s were thinking in such a way about home audio? I've never read such a thing. To the contrary, the covers of many vintage LPs describe in detail the recording chain, from microphones to cutting lathe, that was used to capture the performance; in the best cases, this was really state of the art for those days, and much of that gear is to this day still highly regarded and capable of a wide bandwidth. I don't perceive any deliberate attempt to compromise. I am not necessarily at odds with your hypothesis; I am just wondering about what information supports it.

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Topic - Art Dudley on Re-Issues - Supercool! 08:02:04 05/17/16 (13)

Art did not go far enough - Salectric 12:20:51 05/18/16 (2)

I disagree and often like re-issues more. - richardl 15:01:57 05/19/16 (0)

RE: Art did not go far enough - Supercool! 07:40:21 05/19/16 (0)

The credo of buying: - theophile 02:58:47 05/18/16 (0)

Trustworthy, reliable reviews... - genungo 08:29:11 05/17/16 (1)

RE: Trustworthy, reliable reviews... - collinslaw@fuse.net 08:41:34 05/17/16 (0)

Re-Issues are a total hit or miss due to idiotic remastering, poor master tapes... - Smelly_Socks 08:12:51 05/17/16 (6)

RE: Re-Issues are a total hit or miss due to idiotic remastering, poor master tapes... - Tre' 09:20:35 05/17/16 (5)

RAnd thus why Robert Ludwig Jed Zep masters of records are worth twice what other guys are.. - Smelly_Socks 09:17:44 05/18/16 (0)

The problem is our memory of what original pressing sounds like - Ross 16:57:41 05/17/16 (3)

"The remastering engineer took out the EQ curve"? - Lew 08:29:29 05/18/16 (0)

RE: The problem is our memory of what original pressing sounds like - throwback 06:25:32 05/18/16 (1)

Whn you still OWN the original pressing? Does that change the tune.. - Smelly_Socks 09:26:53 05/18/16 (0)

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