it may just be a case of lousy mastering. i have several discs by charles earland, yes, brian auger,etc where its comparison to lp is very very close. on the other hand, most of my jimmy smith cd's suck(sonically) and the original lp's have much better sonic character
Why organ music
I have a nice ss - CD set up that satisfies me most of the time, but am re-tasting LP's. The one kind if music that always sounds much better to me on LP, even with my very modest LP system is organ music. I used to play organ myself. But I also play piano and can relish well recorded piano on CD. To me, organ on CD is very hard to listen to. Anyone have idea why I notice such a difference with organ versus other instruments?