Angelina for me in this comparison the crucial thing is that i think lp sounds more real. music from cd sounds rather very artificial.
I regret that I did not agree more forcefully with @Angelina when this discussion was “hot”.
In order to be an audiophile, you have to listen to old music on old media. You just have to.
Writing and performing a song is a matter of art; making a sound recording of a musical performance involves both art and science. In order for something to really grab me, it has to be both good art and good audio engineering.
Today’s music might occasionally be worth listening to as music, but in terms of sonic thrills, there’s just nothing there. (I’ve listed a number of pieces of new music that I consider worthwhile, for what it’s worth.)
For me, the golden age of sound recording happened around 1964-69. Things were mostly good in the second half of the 1970s, with another peak in the year 1980.
Things were mostly OK in the 1980s and early 1990s.
I think things really started to get bad with the disappearance of so many of the old-line recording studios such as Electric Lady, Record Plant, and Bearsville Studios, along with the whole DIY, anyone-can-do-it ethos of the 1990s.
For some of the really old-school audiophiles, people of the Harry Pearson generation, the golden age was the 1950s and early 1960s; they don’t want to listen to anything newer than their Mercury Living Stereo recordings and RCA “shaded dogs”.
I see todays musical landscape as mostly a desert.
