Music Gurus

Get a turntable and listen to the originals?

...in my car?

Electric Ladyland on a vinyl LP was pretty well recorded and mastered. However , speaking generically, a different recording process can occur depending on how the label releases a particular CD in terms of its re-mastering...specifically in the noise reduction (or noise increase and stereo channel separtation ). If the label used a bad master (due to its degradation or they try to 'diddle with the remastering) to record the new CD, it can sound like hell. Of course if they crowd more than 70 mins onto a CD and shrink the file's resolution in order to do it, a mess can occur too.

Witness the sonic mess made (bad master) of Santana's 'Abraxas'. It soujdas gross on CD and fair on LP.

I have a gold stereophile CD of Electric Ladland that sounds pretty good, so I'm guessing the CD you have is a particularly bad re-mastering on that record label.

I will assume that most of your other discs are fine and it's not the fault of your player or amp/receiver.

Yeah, the rest are fine. If the store had the dual disc album, I would have both that more expensive version - but they didn't.

No...what Drew is saying is to listen to that CD in your car or at another location on a different CD player to eliminate your CD player as the fault. Then listen to the LP vinyl record right after that test to compare it.

Yeah, realized it was either that or to see if the album did, originally, sound crappy.

I downloaded a remastered version of it from itunes. Sounds great. But considering that I haven't heard the wax in decades, there's no way to compare the two.

As I wrote previously, I'm a stereophile, and have the vinyl LP as well as a stereophile re-mastered gold CD and they both sound fine. Even the non- stereophile CD sounds fine (have it as well).

"To this day, more than 40 years later, no one has even approached the sonic and technical brilliance that he displays here. This music pointed the way forward, not just for Hendrix, but for music in general. Have I mentioned that this may be the greatest headphone album of all time? If you’ve never even been near a drug of any kind, put on a pair of headphones and listen as Hendrix’ guitar swoops and dives from one side to the other. You’ll get some idea of what it means to be high. "

I felt like I was on drugs just listening to the disc in the car. Maybe I should experiment with sound systems.

I remember hearing it for the first time so well. I was only 11 or 12. My brother, who tenderly slid the headphones over my young ears and said "check this out", was in high school and definitely doing his share of smokin' and tokin'.

This.