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In Reply to: Re: Excellent review posted by Jay F on May 1, 2007 at 19:35:25:
What do you mean by all of this, Don T? If it weren't for how crappy many, many rock (and some classical) CDs sounded over a pair of brand new B&W Matrix speakers, I never would have discovered the joy of records, via the Planar 3.I'm not really sure what point you are trying to make with this comment. But if you are talking about most CD reissues of older pre CD era releases, or even CD release up until the early 90s, I suspect bad CD mastering is why the CDs sound so bad.
As far as new release vinyl goes I still like grundgy, garage or noisy rock that way. Otherwise newer music on CDs sound pretty good to me and more often than not I think they are better produced and mastered than the vinyl. And even my favorite TTs can't overcome CDs that are more well produced than their vinyl counterparts.
Why is someone "from another planet" for thinking their recordings suck, or for not liking Led Sibilance? No entiendo.
All recordings "suck". I'm not into the that special production stuff as the musical selection doesn't interest me. In general most audiophile reissues don't even sound as good as the orignal, ie. they suck worse than the originals. Though often I sense they are manufactured to sound better on bad stereos.
Why in the heck would someone own a TT or a system for that matter that makes Led Zeppelin sound like Led Sibilance if they are interested in listening to Led Zeppelin records. It's just stupid and there's no sane reason or justification for it whatsoever. But sure a heck there's reasons and justifications given all the time here in the asylum.
I've listen to several Led Zeppelin records in the past month on both my systems. Need I apologize that the records sound freeking awesome?
IMO a good stereo will let you know a whole lot about the recordings you are listening to. However why do you and others assume a correlation between "bad sound" and recording quality. I don't buy that at all. The correlation is between bad sound and system quality. It's just too easy to blame the record industry (most surely at some audio dealers insistance) for bad sound, ie. bad component match, bad gear, poor setup or something really not subjectively in line with the listeners interests. IME bad sound is much more a function of a bad system than it is of recording quality.
If someone does an upgrade and not every recording of interest sounds better they've made a mistake. It's just that simple - they bought an upgrade meant for someone else.
So yea - someone is living on another planet than me if they don't realize that it's the stereo that makes a recording sound bad AND that most recordings are bad not just the one's that sound bad on his/her system.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
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