Is Recording quality the real culprit?

I always find it odd that there are so many poor classic rock recordings from the 60’s through the 90’s but so many great jazz recordings from the 40’s through the 60’s. It’s like recording quality got worse as technology got better. 

H%$! Yes. Whenever I've advised a newb regarding equipment, I always begin with that issue. Nothing they can do with that. Plan to set things up for the good recordings. Just live with the rest if you like the music. 

Waiting for AI to be turned loose into those mixes.... ;)

AI will be the true savior for a "music first" audiophile. I suppose it wouldn’t matter for the gearheads who have 3 audiophile recordings of lousy artists on repeat all year. In consideration of how lousy some mastering technicians are and the sheer volume of trash recordings out there (did too many great artists so wrong)...these guys need to be FIRED as soon as it’s feasible.

@searchingforthesound ....Ever since I ’graduated’ from Treble+Bass, to adding Loudness and later Midrange, what I heard in the spaces I’ve occupied has only tended to improve as my ’tempered’ use of eq became more....’broadened’.

The advent of DSP, even when done manually, was a Great Leap Forward in dealing with random rooms with porschitt acoustics...when it went to more (11>31) channels of fq to being able to push 100 and more,....

...which....finds you spending over an hour over a 3.5 minute snip.....'Just 'cuz it annoys you.....'

Pick your depth.....no holding your breath..... ;)

@emergingsoul is where I see AI getting into the ’mix’, as it was and became.

Obviously, a long learning curve awaits, but AIs’ are being a surprise on many levels; something us ’amateurs’ really haven’t grasped yet.

Generational Programming is already in progress for AI: One ’teaches others’, who ’teach others’....’scaling’ in that sense...

...on about the 4th >5th generation....’they’ Forget ’things’....!?

"I can do that all by myself, Thanx HAL....(*sotto voce* "...’springhead, fu2....")"

I look forward to ’discussions’ with my audio and general purpose ’puters.....

’Pulling the plug’ Is Not a Threat anymore....

@ibmjunkman  Good One 🤣

As for AI entering the picture, I was very interested in George Martin's son using AI to dissemble and then re-mix the Revolver LP.  I assume if the time, money and interest were there, they could take a four channel recording and re mix it using a 32 or 64 track console and create a whole new and improved version of some classic LPs?  Will this be the next frontier of re-mining the archives?  Will it be done in stages?  First the 16 track version on 180 gram vinyl for $125, followed shortly by the 32 track version for $170 and so on and so on........    The list is endless of recordings that could be new and improved.