Interested on your thoughts on this. It reminds me of an episode of "Taxi" where a woman tells Louie "if you really love me, then you'll never see me". Specfically, after I returned my Marantz 5400 CD player today to a high end Stereo place in LA called Shellys one day after I purchased it, telling him my CD's such as the Beatles "Revolver" sounded a lot better played through my JVC DVD receiver than through the Marantz CD player via the JVC receiver, the salesman who was a good guy and didn't give me any grief, thought about it for a minute and said "the better the sound equipment, the worse 1960's and 1970's recorded CDs (including remastered ones) will sound because their recording deficiencies will be even more noticeable then." Conversely the worse your equipment (within limits), the better these CD's will sound. Do you agree with him?
This sounds like a can't win position for me as 85% of my 1000 or so CD's are pre 1980's recordings. Any advice at all other than stop listening to this music?