Surprised by quality?


I've been listening to my music on crappy speakers for years now. Finally, I bought a decent pair of speakers, and have been listening to all of my music over again, searching for the quality of reproduction and tone, and all that good stuff. There have been a few recordings, though, that have surprised me with their quality. One of these is Seven Mary Three-- American Standard. The cymbals sound like cymbals, the drums sound like drums, and the guitar has exactly that crunch which I liked to pretend it did with my old system. Also, there are the Glenn Miller recordings from the 30's and 40's. I expected digitally remastered music from that long ago to lack something. I've discovered that they do not in any way. What recordings have you listened to that surprised you with their high(or low) quality?
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The opposite is also true. Once you get decent components you will be very disappointed in the quality of many CDs. The same recordings remastered on differant labelsis quite the eye-opener!

For instance there is a box set released by Motown of all of their hits that I really liked and then a fellow audiophile gave me a box set of many of the same recordings released on Rhino. The differance is quality is such that the Motown release is relegated to my car's CD player and I doubt i will ever again play it on my main system only because of what it could be but is not.

Oh, I was just given the box set of Martin Scorsese presents 'The Blues' which is all of the music from the recent PBS documentary. The quality, especially on the last three disks, is truly outstanding!
Go ahead and treat yourself to "The Blues'. I really am a bit too picky when it comes to quality CDs. Not that i don't really mind the average quality CDs; it is just that I can really appreciate the good ones.

One of the greatest things about being an adult, even around Christmas: If you are not given what you want, you can still have it.

Just go get it.