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In Reply to: General 45 rpm question posted by gonzo on July 19, 2006 at 16:30:13:
Some good, some bad - same as LPs, except that the music was often compressed or normalized to produce the most volume across the board on all instruments. This is especially true for 45s dating to the 60s. It's said that some mastering engineers played the test pressings back through cheap speakers - the kind you'd find in a car AM radio, a transistor radio, or an all-in-one record player, the way most of the consumers would hear it. Put it all up front, dynamics be damned - you had to be able to hear it with the top down at 60 MPH in your GTO.It's a juicy irony that many present-day digital remasters of old pop and hard rock do the same thing - rip a track from an Epic AC/DC CD into CoolEdit, ProTools, or what have you - the sine wave looks like a solid black bar.
I've found that some of my later 45s, from the mid-70s onward, have much more dynamic range - especially the limited pressings from small labels, European runs, etc. Still, I can't think of anything in my collection onto which I would slap an audiophile tag.
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