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But another problem with online streams is that they are increasingly not the original music. More and more are remastered, autotuned, rebalanced to sound good

But another problem with online streams is that they are increasingly not the original music. More and more are remastered, autotuned, rebalanced to sound good on a phone speaker or earbuds. This can probably be done largely with AI now. A vinyl album or even a CD or local mp3 file is what it is when it was recorded, and will stay that way as long as it lasts.

Dwedit 1y ago
To be fair, the stereo versions of The Beatles recordings badly needed remastering. Lots of things were hard-panned. They treated the original stereo mix as some novelty, and put all their focus and effort into the mono mix.