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RE: Oh, crap! It's an audiophile thing!
Posted by magiccarpetride on July 5, 2012 at 11:17:35:
"In that case, just switch over to audiophile recordings of female vocalists and be done with it."
Maybe it's just me, but I was never able to find those audiophile recordings as sounding good at all. It's always as if something's missing from those recordings. My nagging suspicion is that they're typically doctored and tortured to death in the post-production phase. There seems to be a lot of sanding off and polishing going on during the mix-down of these recordings, to remove any rough edges. But it's precisely those rough edges that result in exciting listening experiences. And those rough edges have been thankfully preserved in those honest-to-god jazz recording sessions from the late '50s.