On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:25 -0700, Patrick Dixon wrote: > > Knowing what's "good enough" is the key to life, my friend. :-)Yeah, expect > > little and you will never be disappointed. > > BTW, I have a 1960 recording of Buddy Holly that someone gave me, that > sounds like he is still alive and in the room with me - so don't you > kid yourself that old recordings are quite poor!
I expect that the earlier comment was about early CD recordings, which often sounded terrible due to digital overs, bad mastering, lack of proper dither, etc. Some early DDD recordings on CD are terrible, some Mercury and RCA mono stuff from the 50s is wonderful. It all depends on lots of things. Careful listening to early Beatles stuff can let you hear clanking of the bass drum petal along with assorted hum from the Vox ac30 guitar amps. One set of folks could argue that these are bad sounds, others could say that the cheap drumset that Ringo used did clank, and most AC30s are hum generators. I recently bought a CD of CSN&Y's Four Way Street album, a classic at the time. The audio quality is terrible and the singer's intonation is painful. I'm torn between not wanting to hear such pain ever again, and wanting to hear it through my clouded memory. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
