I've been listening to some of my old vinyl - quite a big collection of mainly dance music 12" singles. The sound quality on some, probably, many of those is unbelievably good.
Having not bought any new vinyl for a long time I found myself thumbing through the selection in HMV and came away with the Maroon 5 LP selected at semi-random (as in - I knew I liked their stuff, but wasn't looking for anything in particular).
The sound quality on this is so bad it's hard to even listen to. It sounds like someone mastered the CD first, and then used the CD as the master for the LP. Without seeking to start that debate, I just can't be bothered listening to stuff on CD, it does nothing for me, and I've always suspected this is due to me perceiving the "gaps" in the music caused by the sampling rate making it sound like "most of the music is missing". So this LP doesn't even have the benefits of CD (e.g. wider frequency range? Forgive, I'm not an expert) but doesn't have the benefits of vinyl either, the worst of both worlds.
I do have a few (literally, out of about 400) other older records which sound like that but conversely, older tracks like Paffendorf's "Be Cool" (I'm not sure everyone will recognise that one, still..) sound chilling, better than anything I've heard recently.
I thought that, some time ago, I spotted reviews of new music which also included comments about the sound quality, but I have a feeling that was biased towards the classical and easy listening type genres as opposed to the latest dance stuff.
Given this is the first LP I've bought in years... is this common or normal now? Is it because I've picked up essentially a "pop" album and an "audiophile" album would be mastered better, or is it just bad luck that this particular one is especially poor?
Having not bought any new vinyl for a long time I found myself thumbing through the selection in HMV and came away with the Maroon 5 LP selected at semi-random (as in - I knew I liked their stuff, but wasn't looking for anything in particular).
The sound quality on this is so bad it's hard to even listen to. It sounds like someone mastered the CD first, and then used the CD as the master for the LP. Without seeking to start that debate, I just can't be bothered listening to stuff on CD, it does nothing for me, and I've always suspected this is due to me perceiving the "gaps" in the music caused by the sampling rate making it sound like "most of the music is missing". So this LP doesn't even have the benefits of CD (e.g. wider frequency range? Forgive, I'm not an expert) but doesn't have the benefits of vinyl either, the worst of both worlds.
I do have a few (literally, out of about 400) other older records which sound like that but conversely, older tracks like Paffendorf's "Be Cool" (I'm not sure everyone will recognise that one, still..) sound chilling, better than anything I've heard recently.
I thought that, some time ago, I spotted reviews of new music which also included comments about the sound quality, but I have a feeling that was biased towards the classical and easy listening type genres as opposed to the latest dance stuff.
Given this is the first LP I've bought in years... is this common or normal now? Is it because I've picked up essentially a "pop" album and an "audiophile" album would be mastered better, or is it just bad luck that this particular one is especially poor?