Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Hearing Things Albums that now disappoint after upgrading.

I agree. Lots of recordings from the 70s and 80s are bass light next to others. Tom Petty stuff is really bad, like American Girl. Terrible.

I find some albums I used to really like by electronic acts like Groove Armada or Fatboy Slim or RJD2 or The Avalanches just sound like crap once you can really hear into the music further.

Every sample layered up becomes disjointed and doesn't blend into the others. Worse is if the sample was recorded poorly from the original source and mixed into modern high quality production.

The rain shower on Air's Debut Album-Moon Safari in the track La Femme D'Argent sounds incredibly fake on a good setup. But as a teen in a car, it was sublime.