Sure, my fault, it should be "Kung Fu Fighting", not "Kung Fu Lighting".

Temperamental.

Boxing day, saw an album of Jackie Evancho. This little girl can sing old songs well. It is stunning.

I find that pre-1960's music is too old for me. Why? the quality is terrible. that is all.

otherwise, a good album never gets old. That can be said for NEU!, Aphex Twin's first SAW album and most of the golden age IDM

Really? This is a bit bewildering. You can't appreciate any music that might have subpar sound quality?

^^
Seriously, Dayvan. I think I just lost a bit of respect for you.

999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 years; 26 days; 4 hours; 3 minutes; and 2.018521 seconds

I listen through bad sound quality (and I think the quality of most 50's recordings is way better than those of the 60's, especially in Jazz and Classical music), but I hate it when people just don't care what music sounds like. So a point for Dayvan ;).

Eitherway, Zoë, there's some brilliant recordings from the last half of the 50's. Probably not your style, but people back then already did know how to make a proper recording. E.g. Miles Davis' "Kind of blue". still sounds bloody perfect.

I obviously don't like to listen to painfully shit recordings, but being an audiophile just really doesn't make much sense to me. Why obsess on the quality of the recording? You should be able to listen past that.

I can, as I'm a fan of old ska and reggae and that always sounds like ****.
But I do want my proper recordings to sound the way they were meant to sound or, because that's what it's all about for me, I want the instruments to sound like the instruments sound. I don't want to listen to what my audio set makes of things.
That's what 'high fidelity' is all about in the end.