2. best-of
  3. 1233991845

What to do with bad recorded CDs

When I upgraded to Mcintosh and Accuphase - Kef speaker system, I am in heaven for the first time I started this hobby a decade ago.

I found my-self not even breathing, to capture every bit of nuance of the music... It was a great moment for me - and I am a professional musician. Rarely do I encounter such moments in live music !

Good Hifi can equal if not better live performance - for me.

But alas, heaven turned into he-- when I put on badly recorded materials. It revealed bad CDs to the point of me wanting to throw them away.

What do audiophiles do about that ? Go back to a lesser system to play these ? Or should I throw away great portion of my collection ?
gonglee3
oregonpapa's avatar
oregonpapa
2,850 posts
 
Geoffkait ...

Have you ever noticed, especially early on when CDs first came out, that pianos sounded like those children's toy plastic pianos? Also, on symphonic music, it sounded like the recording engineer had his hand on the volume dial, and instead of the orchestra's natural volume expanding and contracting, it sounded like the engineer was moving the dial up and down. It even sounded that way on the initial Telarc releases on vinyl. Do you remember those? The conductor was Fredrick Fennell. Terrible recordings!
geoffkait's avatar
geoffkait
14,147 posts
 
Oregon papa - in a perfect world Telarc recordings should have stopped digital right in its tracks.
c1ferrari
464 posts
 
Have fun EQing them! :-)
lse
83 posts
 
Coasters to prevent rings on wooden tables or string them on a dock to keep seagulls away
jafant
10,525 posts
 
OP-

Kick back, listen and enjoy the music!
More to discover