How Old is too Old for a Song?

[Stone Birds]

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

[s_k]

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.

[The Fascinating Turnip]

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.

[s_k]

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.

[The Fascinating Turnip]

Originally Posted by s_k

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.

Perhaps I didn't explain myself too well. I can understand why one would like their albums to have good quality, I just don't understand - for example - dismissing a whole era of music just because the sound quality isn't too good.

[s_k]

Originally Posted by Unchained Ballad

I just don't understand - for example - dismissing a whole era of music just because the sound quality isn't too good.

Neither do I. I mean, I collect 78rpm records so, yeah.
But I do understand that sound quality can be an issue.
I actually have some records that I don't play in my living room because my rig makes them sound really harsh. I usually don't really mind listening to stuff that sounds particularly bad, but I can't stand listening to music that sounds irritating. Has nothing to do with age, though.
The latest album by the Soundcarriers. I just can't finish it. Gives me a ****ing headache. **** limiters. **** loudness war.

[RockingGoat]

Recording is really an issue. But I don't think tiny recording problem will hurt a real good song too much, if it is really good.

Talking about recording, Yanni is an old gun. He can do excellent recording outside, for example at the Acropolis in Athens, the Forbidden City in Beijing, Taj Mahal in India, etc..

Recording needs skills, for sure, especially outdoor.

Well, that is another topic.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by RockingGoat

Recording is really an issue. But I don't think tiny recording problem will hurt a real good song too much, if it is really good.

Talking about recording, Yanni is an old gun. He can do excellent recording outside, for example at the Acropolis in Athens, the Forbidden City in Beijing, Taj Mahal in India, etc..

Recording needs skills, for sure, especially outdoor.

Well, that is another topic.

Yanni? Seriously?

[RockingGoat]

Do I look like joking?

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by RockingGoat

Do I look like joking?

Yes?