dsi@unccvax.UUCP (Dataspan Inc) (10/25/85)
I can see voting for Who's Next (or whatever) over any silly Led Zep
album. Now, I like Zep as much as the next guy, but your average 1950's
Bill Haley and the Comets album has better fidelity. Get the compact discs
of Led Zep IV and Who's Next and use the ears that God gave you. At worst,
Who's Next at least has the ambience of having more than $4.09 spent on it
for recording tape. You can tell that the A&R development people, the producers,
and the engineers were told to do a proper job of capturing the music.
On the other hand, early Zep albums (even Original Master Recordings)
sound like crap from a technical standpoint. Don't give me
that whining snotty crap about "well, the crudity of the recording is part
of the genre'" for even one second. There is no excuse for the levels of hiss,
modulation noise, and hum which are present on the Zep 4 compact disc or
album. Dolby "A" was available right down the street....
FOR ME, at least, having a recording which doesn't have a blanket of
hiss around every percussion note, severe clipping on the vocals
and generally large amounts of IM and THD thrown in is important to the
enjoyment of reproduced music. For this reason, The Who wins in my
book...
David Anthony
CDE
DataSpan, Inc (P.S. AM will rise again!!!)