The great musical arrangers are no longer around such as Paul Weston , Nelson Riddle , Henry Mancini , Gordon Jenkins etc. The great musical scores are a thing of the past
example : Laura , Stella By Starlight , As Time goes By etc.

The beautiful lush strings and background music is only a memory another example Jackie Gleason , Percy Faith , Mantovani etc.
Broadway with great composers and lyricists such a Lerner and Lowe , Rogers and Hart Hammerstein , George an Ira Gershwin etc.


The singers Sinatra , Cole , Crosby , Day , Ella , Sarah , Como etc.
The sound was less intrusive , more defined, more intimate.
Does not audio equipment also reflect that change also , surround sound , ipod ,amplified everything , loud is in soft out.
The issue is not what is better but what is different. Times have changed.

The LP appeared to capture that sound , tube equipment softened it , and speakers of that era played it.
Rock , Country , Rap ,etc just appear not to work out. The new audio equipment is at home with the changes that has taken place over the past decades. What do you think ?