Heard it for the first time on my headphones today. First I thought I had clipping issues, but I don’t think so… what’s up with the distortion? If it’s on purpose, it sounds horrible to me.
Heard it for the first time on my headphones today. First I thought I had clipping issues, but I don’t think so… what’s up with the distortion? If it’s on purpose, it sounds horrible to me.
One of my favorite albums of the 2000’s is Back to Black. When I finally got good equipment, I bought it on vinyl. I cannot tell you my disappointment when I discovered how terrible the mastering was. They tried to do a stylized recreation of the sound of 60’s recordings without understanding what made them sound the way they did, and the whole thing was distorted and interfered with the music rather than enhancing it. It was like a bad color correction on a movie. When it’s great, it’s seamless and disappears. When it’s terrible, it’s all you think about.
Hot take here, but I keep turning back to Sade or Norah’s debut album every time I need to judge the ‘musicality’ of any new equipment. I know there are more revealing tracks out there for this purpose, but these are my cohesive, immersive go-tos for judging the ‘stuff’.
Come Away With Me is my benchmark album. Such a lovely sound, everything sounds just right. Either that or some, cliche I know, Diana Krall.
Which sucks, because Frank is pretty hifi