How much is about the recording

I'd like to take it one step further or at lest clarify the issue. I can easily tell a BAD recording from a great recording, but there are also those whose mastering is terrible as opposed to excellent mastering. I have seen it so clearly that even on a CD you can hear the difference. I find so may sources that take a LoFi recording and just save it at a higher resolution trying to pawn it off as something prime. Also it doesn't take an Audiophile setup to notice it. A dumpy Walmart computer speaker on my Rather good computer setup plays a totally different and noticeable sound when a recording comes from better source material as opposed to something where the source was LoFi to begin with.

@ russ69
Could you make a slightly more arbitrary meaningless statement"

i.e. WHICH, Diana Krall version of "Garden in the Rain" I have found 6 versions in 30 second of looking? I stil haven’t found one cut being use d in multiple collection. And if one was shared between collections was it REMASTERD, and in that Remastering, someone did some butchering?
Just listened to the one from "Love Scenes’ and I think what you are hearing is Krall’s STYLE of STROKING the keys. I have shown many friends over time how she strokes the keys rather than Pounding/striking the keys. Then when she does strike at keys, it does come over with more emphasis. Watch some of her live concerts and you can see it.

Also on studio albums there should be little to NO noise suppression used to begin with. SO possibly if you do hear some, it is likely on a Live cut. Then on that note is it really ’Noise Suppression’ or is it ’COMPRESSION’ that you are pointing out?