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There is a tendancy at the moment to applaud artists for making a whole album on a laptop. I'm sure the classical genre has some amazing recordings. Also strange that in the late 50's people were less likely to have music systems that could reproduce the recordings in full range or even media in good enough condition to appreciate it.
Now that we have all that advantage we use it to play Old Town Road at full volume on a Friday night.
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I'm sure the classical genre has some amazing recordings
So does country, but it doesn't sell like Lil Nas X. Of course, we're in danger in this thread of thinking that sitting in a quiet room concentrating on well reproduced music is normal, whereas what is actually normal is drowning out urban noise with shitty in-ear headphones. Mainstream production is geared to making music sound exciting in that environment, without regard to how tiring it might sound in the audiophile setting.
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It's funny that the audiophile of the sixties coming home after work, slipping on a cardigan, and playing the decca recordings of kathleen ferrier on his garrard turntable, quad amp and ESLs, enjoyed the finest reproduction.
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Proper recording has not been forgotten, it has just been abandoned in popular music as recording gimmicks are necessary to sell bad music.