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Too bad this “thread” couldn’t be sorted into Genre’s



My thought would be that bands would be pretty searchable as the thread grows...i.e., if I searched for "Deep Purple" in the Stereo Forum only, it's easy to could come up with my post of the discs' recording quality.

The thing is, it's always been pretty easy to read a ton of reviews on, say, Amazon.com, but very few reviewers ever get into the quality of the recording. Not that the performance isn't important of course, but I've been disappointed too many times with a disc of great performances that, to me, are unlistenable on my Axioms.

I don't think there would have been any need for a thread like this 5 years ago. But with the trend of putting out discs that are as loud and compressed as possible (which, of course, sound lousy to anyone who is serious about their sound and listening on something other than a car stereo, boombox or MP3 player) is hlpful in steering others away from bad recordings....or to good ones.

::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::