Your system quality vs. recording quality


This is what I find frustrating.  Some recordings sound amazing, even better with a great system.   And then there are recordings that just don’t sound good.  And these recordings are from very good performers (why didn’t they put out a better quality recording?? Is it that difficult?).

A revealing system will highlight problem recordings.

No matter how much is spent on quality components, it’s very hard to make subpar recordings sound great.
A profound dilemma.




emergingsoul

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Profoundly sad that SQ from the Beatles is not as good as it deserves. So much goodness, and remastering didnt achieve much. And yet there are albums from the past that do indeed sound quite good. Same thing can be said for Grateful Dead album SQ, although they are ok. Linda Ronstadt albums are quite good. 

Sadly, So many great albums from the 70s used to sound a lot better when the age of audiophile technological advancement and awareness had not fully arrived and was not so widespread. We may need our older systems for recordings from this past age that treated the recordings a lot better; these classic albums have no place in modern era systems.