Quote Originally Posted by melvin walker
I have the mono , stereo and CD version of "kind of Blue". Why add anything to a recording. That is the main reason in St.Louis several audiophiles purchased their LP's
in Europe to avoid the juice-up version of many recordings made in America.
As posted earlier the recording industry was more interested in attracting new buyers than
producing quality recordings.
I was under the impression that Kind of Blue was a stereo recording...

Now we have home entertainment. systems , where audio has taken a back seat to video.
we have, and I don't like them. It's good for movies and such (only when one can get a good surround system, not some crappy HTIB thing)

Rock music or rock and roll was no different , again quality was not it's most important product. Most rock entertainers can neither sing , dance or act. As they said in "Singing in the Rain" A triple threat. With most modern adolescent driven anything the end results is even lower quality , we now have hip-hop and rap . The glorification of the slums. The put-down of women.
I'm no rap/hip-hop man too, so I won't speak about that. But there actually is some pretty darn good recorded rock too...
a few albums come to mind, like Dire Straits - Money for nothing, which, btw, is exellent on vinyl. and The doors - Riders on the storm, and things like that...
Eric Clapton has made nice recordings too, so did Pink Floyd (exellent recordings)
It is true, however, that today's heavily commercialized music is bad recorded, that's why I don't even bother buying them...

To say that that the technology of today in audio is not an improvement is nonsense.
There is some outstanding audio equipment available. That does not mean that we do not have the Stradivarius of audio equipment. The equipment of a time when we cared about the music we listened to or the movies we watched. We respected women and removed our hats when entering a room.
As Frank Sinatra said in "That's Entertainment " We can wait around and hope but we will
never see that again.
No, (although I definately respect women, but I don't wear a hat, so I can't take it of ). But as you said too, there still is some outstanding audio equipment available. The people who build and design that definately care about music, albeit in different ways sometimes. And the people who buy that equipment also care about the music too. Besides, that's what our hobby is: enjoying the music, and getting the best out of it.

btw, if you can find it, look for an album called 'Trasnoche', by Enrico Pieranunzi (piano) & Marc Johnson (bass). It's one of my personal favorites (of the new music, that is), and is an exellent recording...
and if you like cuban jazz, also check out Orlando Cachaito Lopez, it's his only album, so there's no real title or so, also an exellent recording...

Keep them spinning,
Bert.