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Speakers and system for compressed recordings?

I started this crazy hobby hoping to improve the sound of my stereo. After ten years of throwing money into the wind I finally come to a realization. Okay I am a little slow, but damn it if only good recordings sound listenable on my system. Is there a way to make compressed vintage rock recordings sound good? Do you need a separate system or can you do a combo compromise?
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unsound
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Perhaps, a dynamic range expander might work for you? DBX, RG and Rane are some that have made them.
http://www.rane.com/g4.html
unsound
7,344 posts
 
Just saw this:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-20128489-47/is-music-too-loud/?tag=cnetRiver
unsound
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Bondman, be carefull, it's easy to confuse coincidence with correlation. Despite some other wonderful qualities, I've heard the full range ESL ML's exhibit just the opposite phenomenon. It could just as easily be due to one speaker providing more or less detail than the other, or something else all together.
I am fully convinced that many of these modern pop recordings are fundamentally flawed, and without some kind of electronic manipulation, an accurate system will expose them as such.
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