What to do with bad recorded CDs

What did you do with bad recordings on LP? I can think of countless LPs where either the recording or the pressing were so poor that it distracted from the musical performance.

You've received a good suggestion about looking for remasters. (Of course the reverse can be true. Sometimes the original mixes are better than the remasters. A friend had a "Yes" LP he loved and bought the CD which he thought was terrible. We solved the problem by my converting the LP version to CD for him.)

However, it is simply a fact of life that many recordings are mediocre and a few are just downright bad. At that point you have to decide whether the music is more important to you than the recording quality.

Why not add a second CDP to your system that is more forgiving of lessor recordings?

Seems that only one out of ten CD's are mastered to audiophile standards. To overcome this shortfall you might consider adding a turntable to your system. It will open a whole new world (or old world) of superb recordings that CD's have failed to imitate.

If it's not a great performance it goes out to the car!

Get a decent equalizer unit. I know it goes against the perfectionist in us but it really makes a difference on badly manufactured CDs, albums, cassettes, & reel to reel tape. I would be unhappy without mine to use when it can actually improve the sound.