I'm a jazz first guy. All kinds of jazz. 1990's smooth jazz sounds great in the car, back ground, elevator. A lot of the music from that time is good music. But most of the recordings in that era are terrible.
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@kymanor1 Jazz from that era Mo t of on a b d j zz rec rding h s h ss and inf mat on miss ng. |
On my Spatial Sapphire speakers, Jethro Tull has a terrible-sounding song on the Stand Up LP. It’s the opening track, "A New Day Yesterday." The rest of the album sounds quite good, but even though I liked that song on my old, cheap speakers, I have to skip it now to spare my ears. In an interview Ian Anderson says that the producer was experimenting with the recording by whirling a microphone (like a lasso I imagine) to get a weird effect. It’s weird all right. Anderson thought it sounded good to his ears at the time, but damn. Revolver it isn’t. |
To me, many of the recordings of the late 70's and 80's that used too much compression and too many over dubs. Listen to Muddy Waters "Folk Singer" recorded in the 50's on a good system sounds like you are in the room with him and total range of lows/highs. Then listen to ELP Brain Salad Surgery, yikes a compressed glary mess |
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