Old CD dynamics vs Remastered?

I have nothing against either in general.

Digital remasters of a lot of older material (50s era and earlier) tend to most often deliver new revelations and opens up listening to a lot of otherwise long forgotten recordings that I do not remember ever sounding good in my youth.

Overall dynamic range may be more compressed in general with newer recordings but transients/micro dynamics are often cleaner and better represented which provides a certain degree of liveliness to the music that may not be there in older digital masters. There is also often more energy in the music overall and that also works well with certain kinds of music.

Its a mixed bag much like its always been. In general, I tend to like newer remasters better than older ones, but not always.

I would not categorically discount newer remasters.

I had an older CD copy of Abacab by Genesis. The music was clearly lacking some of the energy and impact that it required to be effective. I picked up the latest remaster and things now sound more like the way they should at least for this kind of music, much more "rocking" rather than laid back MOR in the mixing.

"Clearly the latest remastered Beatles EMI recordings are superior to earlier issues."

I was going to point that out as well.

I think sometimes people just need to stop thinking about what the music sounds like and why and just listen to seek musical satisfaction, however that is achieved.