gatzou wrote: > Interesting thread... > > I am a big fan of Ray Charles (I know very well his records) and I am > quite an old school ears guy (preferring old uncompressed (dynamically) > standards to modern production). > But I find this "Genius love company" quite well produced for a modern > prod, regardless of artistic quality : It sound quite good to me. > Beside compression, the sound may be much cleaner and free of analog > saturation / color compared to former Ray records. > Ray Charles was a big fan of analog production chain, for it's grainy > sound. All production under his watch was this way. Maybe this is what > you are missing ?
Yeah, maybe that's the answer. With the old school sound, I seem to get more three-dimensionality. It could very well be due to some saturation/distortion and the graininess of the analog tape. But the individual instruments/voices tend to leap out of the speakers, which I find delightful. In comparison, a lot of modern day production sounds flat -- like looking at a brick wall. Yes, all the details and all the resolution is there, plain as a day. But it doesn't leap toward the listener, it's just staying politely where it was originally placed by the sound engineers/producers. Boring... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ heisenberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98650 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
