The Better Your System, the worse a pre 1980 CD will sound?

[hershon]

How does "Norwegian Wood" and "Taxman" sound to you on your system if you've played those CDs?

Thats the only way i listen to cd's,5 channel stereo. I notice that there is a big volume change form one beatle cd to another.

[BC Dave]

I listened to Norwegian Wood again last night and all the vocals eminated from the right side. I have never noticed this before. I tried a couple of other cuts and heard vocals from both speakers. I wondered if they screwed up on Norwegian Wood or did that deliberately? It does sound kind of weird, because it screws up any sense of imaging. Still, the fidelity of that disc, for that time especially, is very impressive.

[hershon]

Well its good to know someone totally independent of me is hearing the same things I do so I know I'm not totally mad. What system do you have? I'm wondering if same thing will happen sonically on "Norwegian Wood" if you're listening to it on a $20,000 system as maybe then I'm banging my head against the wall with no solution in sight ever. I just keep thinking that if I heard this song on a much better system, it would sound differently in regards to the vocals.
Anyway, thanks for helping me keep my sanity.

I listened to Norwegian Wood again last night and all the vocals eminated from the right side. I have never noticed this before. I tried a couple of other cuts and heard vocals from both speakers. I wondered if they screwed up on Norwegian Wood or did that deliberately? It does sound kind of weird, because it screws up any sense of imaging. Still, the fidelity of that disc, for that time especially, is very impressive.

[BC Dave]

Adcom GFA-535 II amp, with Adcom matching tuner/preamp (can't remember model number), Mission M73 towers, Mirage BPS-150 powered sub and an early 1990s Rotel CD player. If you and I are hearing the same lack of vocals on the left channel on two different systems, I'll bet the same thing would occur on a $100,000 system. With a well-recorded CD like Molly Johnson or some of the newer XTC stuff, voices float in the middle of the room and it sounds like the singer is live, standing in front of the band. The 14 foot vaulted cedar ceiling lin my living room ikely contributes to this sense of spaciousness.
Cheers.
Dave