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What to do with bad recorded CDs

When I upgraded to Mcintosh and Accuphase - Kef speaker system, I am in heaven for the first time I started this hobby a decade ago.

I found my-self not even breathing, to capture every bit of nuance of the music... It was a great moment for me - and I am a professional musician. Rarely do I encounter such moments in live music !

Good Hifi can equal if not better live performance - for me.

But alas, heaven turned into he-- when I put on badly recorded materials. It revealed bad CDs to the point of me wanting to throw them away.

What do audiophiles do about that ? Go back to a lesser system to play these ? Or should I throw away great portion of my collection ?
gonglee3
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mapman
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" I find some of the pop music recordings with syntheciser sound un-refined, as were the husky voices"

NEed to know what "un-refined" means to you?

Many pop synth recording suffer from compressed dynamics in teh recording process, which might be considered "un-refined", but other than that they should sound clear and undistorted at any reasonable volume you listen at.
bongofury
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I will still take a pint and the bar coaster.
audiofeil
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Frisbees for little hands.

I'm teaching my grandson how to frisbee a Sheryl Crow cd.

Any of them work fine.
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gawdbless
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For me its simply, the better the quality of speaker, the better the speaker makes the lesser engineered cd sound.
gonglee3 OP
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I guess I mean by un-refined, voices that are husky in an unpleasant way - brought out by a revealing hifi system.

In a lesser system, they sounded tolerable, but not on a better system.

I might try different speaker as Godbless suggested.

Thank you again for all the insightful inputs...

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