Quoting Ricardus Vincente <wizardofgosz(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 20:28 +0100, Peder Hedlund
wrote:
To some degree I think it has to do with
comparison. For that time it
might have been state of the art mixing/mastering, but now we're used
to a different type of sounds so the old mixes sounds flat in
comparison. It might also be nostalgia.
Old mixes sound flat? What do you man? I think old mixes have tons
of depth.
Perhaps I should have added a 'might', as in 'the old mixes might sound
flat'
It'd be
interresting if you managed to get hold of an/the old cassette
and do an A-B comparison.
Comparing what, to what?
To compare the cassette mix that he remembered so fondly to the CD mix
he found lacking. I have a hunch it might be entirely possible that
the sound he remembers from tape is just nostalgia and that the CD in
fact sounds more or less the same as the cassette.