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Recording quality effect on listening pleasure ...

I love jazz but admittedly I have a problem listening to early gems (say 40s through the early 50s) because the performances typically weren't recorded as well as during 50s and 60s. Now, I fully realize there were some terrible recordings during that time but for the most part I feel the quality of the recording improved substantialy in the later years. The disturbing part is that these wonderful performances are going unlistened to (at least for me) because I can't get past the quality of the recording. Is this just me or does anyone else feel the same way?

Many thanks,

JP
jpstereo
tiger
313 posts
 
To increase your pleasure I would put some of your favorites on cd and then process and clean them up with some sound software, especially the stuff that Steinberg makes.
jorgeparrapuppy
257 posts
 
Well JP, seems that I couldn't agree more with you on this one. I've got a lot of stuff that I absolutely love, but because the quality is so compromised, I will only listen to it in the car, as I really don't care what the sound is like there. In other words, I refuse listening to it on my system. Sure I like the music, and that's what it's all about. But what's the point of running a Ferrari on
diet pepsi? Case in point: I recently bought a remastered Mission UK cd which, I have been waiting and waiting for. Well I got it. The original sounds better than the remastered. I was like "what the hell"? what is the point of remastering something, if it ain't gonna better
the original? The original remains in the house while
the remastered got the boot to the Tacoma.
:(
dreadhead
353 posts
 
you know a lot of great movies were made in black and white. Probably some of the best movies ever but I still can't watch them. I like my movies in living color. That being said, music is different. I grew up cherishing bootleg records and tapes of live performances. Sure the quality sucked but if the show was great it really didn't seem to matter. now that I'm older and my stereo costs thousands of dollars I don't have the patience for inferior quality recordings like I use too.
jorgeparrapuppy
257 posts
 
Cheers to that, Dredhead!
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gawdbless
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'Recording quality effect on listening pleasure ...'

100% NO.
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