Hi

I have to agree with Jim Fogel on this for me quality of production and mix is so important to my enjoymeni.
I remember when all this loud over recorded music started back in the days of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound I hated it then, played havoc with my hi fi and SME arm and high compliance magnetic Cartridge and you could see the record turning grey with wear after a few plays.
A lot of today’s music with its hot tracks then mastered right up to the top on the master really turn me off.
As for music today, a lot is still very good, personally I don’t like rap (but a lot do)
Yet I am still quite happy with the spoken word to music, as in say like The Shifting Whispering Sands (Jim Reeves)
I love Wagner (The Ring) . Pink Floyde. a whole host of country and 50s on ward pop.
I guess at the end of the day to most of us its down to personal taste and what we have heard over the years and to a certain extent your culture that you have grown up in and live in.
Horses for courses methinks.
But for me the technical quality (production) must be good.
Just my thoughts.
Mike

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