bought a remaster from the original tape or otherwise and it sounded worse than your decades old original? For me it is almost always. Anyone know the reason a pristine original copy isn’t recorded to a master tape and repressed?
@millercarbon
Good post. So I head over to betterrecords.com. Jeez.WHS are expensive.
I'm reassured that if I ever become a billionaire, I'll know what to
spend some of it on.
Speaking of which, I was at a show with Chad Kassem demoing Acoustic Sounds' remastered records. Tony Bennett, Hendrix etc. if memory serves me correctly. While the new versions were noise-free and sounded good, the originals, to my ears, were actually blacker, clearer, more transparent, and more enjoyable if not somewhat noisier due to age.
Original Columbia, Decca, London, Mercury, RCA Red, etc. from the early sixties thru the seventies are relatively inexpensive and can give you a taste of clean, clear, transparent, in-the-room sound that is missing from many modern digital recordings and re-issues.
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