Quote Originally Posted by EdwardGein
I have over 1000 CD's, 85% of which was recorded in the 60's & 70's. The majority of these CD's when issued in their best remastered form (this is another scam the record companies give us- first they give us a crappy CD reissue of a 4th generation tape, then they claim they've discovered the masters, then they remaster, then they said they did the remasters wrong get the latest remaster instead like they're proud of it & you've bought 4 or 5 different versions of the same CD to get the ultimate one- thank God for Ebay and Amazon.com!) have sounded great on my system I'd say 75% of the time like the group is playing live in my living room. I attribute this to my set up: Denon 3801 receiver, Orb Audio 5 speaker & Sub Mod 1 set & Harmon Kardon 31 DVD player connected to the receiver by optic cable. I usally listen to 5 speaker all natural sound on regular 2 channel CD's which gives the sound more depth for me. As for the 25% there enough to drive you mad- Cream absolutely sucks- their box set is so thin its ridiculous. Alot of stuff by Free sucks too. But I think it comes down to the equipment you have. You can have good equipment and still play pre 80's CD's fine provided their recordings are very good remasters. I'll give another example. Some of the Beatles CD's such as Revolver & Rubber Soul which still aren't that great a sound, were absolutely abysmal on my old JVC DVD/Receiver system. On this current system they're decent. I personally hate vinyl as I used to scratch my records to smithereens and sorry I don't miss those scratchy noises and wasn't charmed by them.
...and NO! I will NOT try placing a human skull on my CD player to reduce resonances!