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As example, I listen to some pretty old jazz and lots of live recordings and boy, those have sometimes lots of noise at the bottom (over 70dB almost everything recorded before late 80's has a distince noise bottom) but nevertheless I love lots of those dearly compared to many clinically black-canvas engineered HDCD.
Ah... The noise introduced by recording equipment/technology is, of course, a totally differnt beast than the performing or human noise -- the former is always "bad" thing. Just to make sure that our thoughts are in sync on this...
