It's so hard to tell if a clear vinyl LP needs to be dusted!
Do any of your Rolling Stones recordings bring "Satisfaction"?
Before I became a snobby audiophile I loved the Rolling Stones. But as my system grew and I discovered all kinds of sounds in recordings (CD as well as Vinyl) that I had never heard before and the openness and depth of soundstage that was a wonder, I never had that same Wow moment with the Stones recordings. Actually the best sound I have found came from the Hot Rocks double LP. Has anyone else had a better experience with their recordings? Having gone through so many remasters, nothing seems to have changed. Sticky Fingers should be something better than we get. The opening riff of Brown Sugar has always seemed so muddy. My rant, any thoughts?
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As primarily a Beatles fan I too yearned for better sound quality from my records as my system improved. Unfortunately the EMI / Hayes plant wasn't all it could be, and the recordings themselves suffered from a little too much 'bouncing down' from take to take. Much later upon hearing various Kinks and Rolling Stones records I realised that the Beatles records actually sounded great in comparison. At least EMI / Abbey Road / George Martin insisted upon some kind of a standard for those initial recordings. You can't say the same for everyone else as the recording culture here in the UK was such that pop music was hardly taken seriously for decades. Basically the Stones 60s output ( Brian Jones era) is listenable but don't expect sonic excellence. I loved my UK copy of Rolled Gold on vinyl for the music without caring too much for the sound. It was/is a little murky with crushed bandwidth but it's OK. |
According to Mike Moffat of Schiit Audio, a lot of music lovers fell out of love with The Rolling Stones albums produced after Exile On Main St. The reasoning he gave was that all albums up to that point had mixed the vocals behind the beat, whereas after Exile, all albums were mixed with the vocals on the beat. That subtle shift in recording mixing style altered how the overall music sounds on the Stones albums, tending to be less enjoyable. https://youtu.be/IUBFtqNpC7U [18:00 min mark or so]. |
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