not sure if this is just "complaining about something you don't like", in which case I'm refraining from putting it on the main page (got a yellow card just now for making an ill-judged late-night edit that wasn't too flattering about a named politician, so I'm being careful. But hey, we're all entitled to one...)
CD technology wasn't around in the 1960's and 1970's. There is a suspicion that old-time vinyl and CD's are like comparing chalk and cheese, or apples and oranges: both have weaknesses and merits as means of recording music but go about it completely differently.
Thus we old farts who bought a lot of music on vinyl when it was first out, and who are only just now catching up/replacing/augmenting vinyl collections with CD's can get a bit narky about remastering. Especially when some technician who wasn't around for the original thinks they can somehow improve the original vinyl release and takes it upon himself to get creative about it, as if he thinks he can make better judgement calls than the original producer who made the track stellar.
My example of this is buying a copy of Kate Bush - a Greatest Hits album on CD - to discover "Wuthering Heights" had been completely screwed up by whoever remastered it. This wasn't just preserving the original vinyl sound for CD as we heard it back in 1978 - it had been completely remastered by somebody with no idea, and it duly stank. Sorry, but I wanted to hear it as I first heard it way back then, with minimal and preferably no, change to the sound mix. And I wanted that glorious guitar solo at the end exactly as it was. out, proud, loud and in the forefront as it was on the single. Not dulled down and mixed back into the other musicians to such a point it wasn't there any more. We old farts notice these things, I'll have you know! (fumres, rants and waves Zimmer Frame in fury).
not sure if this is just "complaining about something you don't like", in which case I'm refraining from putting it on the main page (got a yellow card just now for making an ill-judged late-night edit that wasn't too flattering about a named politician, so I'm being careful. But hey, we're all entitled to one...)
CD technology wasn't around in the 1960's and 1970's. There is a suspicion that old-time vinyl and CD's are like comparing chalk and cheese, or apples and oranges: both have weaknesses and merits as means of recording music but go about it completely differently.
Thus we old farts who bought a lot of music on vinyl when it was first out, and who are only just now catching up/replacing/augmenting vinyl collections with CD's can get a bit narky about remastering. Especially when some technician who wasn't around for the original thinks they can somehow improve the original vinyl release and takes it upon himself to get creative about it, as if he thinks he can make better judgement calls than the original producer who made the track stellar.
My example of this is buying a copy of Kate Bush - a Greatest Hits album on CD - to discover "Wuthering Heights" had been completely screwed up by whoever remastered it. This wasn't just preserving the original vinyl sound for CD as we heard it back in 1978 - it had been completely remastered by somebody with no idea, and it duly stank. Sorry, but I wanted to hear it as I first heard it way back then, with minimal and preferably no, change to the sound mix. And I wanted that glorious guitar solo at the end exactly as it was. out, proud, loud and in the forefront as it was on the single. Not dulled down and mixed back into the other musicians to such a point it wasn't there any more. We old farts notice these things, I'll have you know! (fumres, rants and waves Zimmer Frame in fury).