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Re: Todays audiophiles are left with no remedies

Just think of it as listening in a different concert venue. I personally don't mind so much that the recordings vary so much, in a way its kind of like a time portal. With older recordings I have found the quality to be much more variable: the bad ones are really bad and old fashioned sounding and the best ones sound as good or better than today's finest. Recordings from the 80s tend to have that digital sheen on them...even when they are LPs (because they were recorded in digital? Likely). Some of the best recordings I have heard come from the mid-1960s-mid 1970s. Some of the best new recordings where the digital is much better sound spookily real. I have an orchestra recording playing Prokovfiev's Romeo and Juliet that is made with a single ribbon microphone direct to DAT! It sounds just like you are in the 5th row in a concert. Why do I know this? I heard the same piece performed last month in Zürich Tonhalle by the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra and I had 10th row center seats. Sounded VERY similar. I now view this recording as one of the best I own.

I say make the system work as well in your room as possible and then take the music as it comes. Consider it fun and educational.

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