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Bad recordings and high end audio

Hello. Have decided that the kids are out of the house and I can dedicate some space and money to my long ignored hobby. What is different now is there are so few audio stores. I firmly believe in listening to products so thus I start this great new chapter of my life. The first 2 stores I went to the people were very patient with me and I listened to a ton of combinations. They asked me did I want to hear anything else and I said  yes, ummm,.. how about Led Zeppelin? I received the same response from both stores which was “all Led Zeppelin recordings are horrible” except for this one version of Led Zeppelin 2…blah blah. So I said what happens if I am at home and i have a desire to play Led Zeppelin or another perceived poor recording? They did not have an answer for me nor did they play Led Zeppelin lol . I ended up ordering a pair of Magnepan 3.7i’s from a different store. 13 weeks until I get them, ouch. I am going to guess that people do listen to poor recordings on great systems because you just want to hear a particular album, right? Or am I missing something? Just looking for a bit of insight. Yes, I know they want it to sound the best so I will buy it but is that the only motivation. Or maybe they hate Led Zeppelin, lol.
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cd318
2,636 posts
 
@arcticdeth,

"I have a box of old demo tapes I traded with several buddies from the U.K., including Shane Embry from Napalm death, whom I met through trading addresses from metal maniacs, metal edge, and hit parader magazines in the 80’s and 90’s!"


My brother also met Shane Embury back in the late 80s. Shane even signed a £10 note for him which he kept taped above his bed.

After Napalm Death folded my brother then followed Carcass for a while. Those were days when you could stand and chat afterwards with the likes of Shane Embury and Bill Steer.
I always mean to ask my brother for the name of that LP (Tankard?) he used to play back in the day.

It was one of the very best recordings I've ever heard - tons of dynamic range and great clarity throughout. 
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arcticdeth
1,572 posts
 
@cd318.  
   That’s what’s nice about metal, hangin w the band before or after the show, handshakes, signing stuff, pictures.

   Still have many photos of me with Raven, onslaught, trouble, and 100 other bands I’ve met over the past 30+ years. Met napalm death a few times, good kids!

  
grossman616
130 posts
 
I have to agree, I am also a Magnepan owner and Zep recordings are pretty poor.  I have ( Don't tell anyone) a small Schitt Audio EQ for recordings that are FUBAR . The unit is a little "transistor-y" sounding BUT it makes poor recordings listenable. You can get them used for 100 bucks or so....
Enjoy
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relayer101
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I’m glad this thread moved to the SQ on good versus bad pressing and CD’s and got off the skills of Jimmy Page as a producer. Jimmy Page produced Led Zeppelin exactly how he and the band wanted Led Zeppelin to sound. If they wanted bottom end boomy bass driven music it would have been there. I prefer to hear the bass notes being played by John Paul Jones.
I am lucky to have very early and very good SQ pressing of the first five albums.
And yes there are songs on any album that I would choose to audition a system and there are songs that I definitely would not choose.
Dyer Maker from Houses of the Holy - definitely not!
No Quarter from Houses of the Holy - absolutely yes!
Whole Lotta Love and The Lemon Song from II - absolutely yes! Although there is not much on Led Zeppelin II that I would not choose!

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