My feeling is that my system is simply more revealing than most of the studio monitors that these recordings were mixed on. Anything Ken Scott did sounds fantastic. He probably mixed records on similar monitors as did many other producers.
There is a tendency to want to brighten up a recording with a bit of EQ if you are mixing on a set of speakers that don't have horn drivers. It may be as simple as that.
In my humble opinion, I think horn driven speakers are going to offer more accuracy in the higher frequencies than cones are ever going to. Just the physics of it. Horns go nicely with horns.
It would sure be nice to know what kind of speakers were used to mix each individual record. If the problem was really in my system, I think it would show up on all recordings. I have 40 albums that sound perfect. I would not change a thing. But if I put on Highway 61 Revisited, it does sound a bit shrill. I should probably just play that on a different system.
There is a tendency to want to brighten up a recording with a bit of EQ if you are mixing on a set of speakers that don't have horn drivers. It may be as simple as that.
In my humble opinion, I think horn driven speakers are going to offer more accuracy in the higher frequencies than cones are ever going to. Just the physics of it. Horns go nicely with horns.
It would sure be nice to know what kind of speakers were used to mix each individual record. If the problem was really in my system, I think it would show up on all recordings. I have 40 albums that sound perfect. I would not change a thing. But if I put on Highway 61 Revisited, it does sound a bit shrill. I should probably just play that on a different system.