[Arny Krueger]

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message


That's true. But I mixed for years on horrible sounding
monitors, starting out on Altec 604s, and got great mixes
that translated well. Now, it's scary playing some of
those back on good speakers and hearing stuff that I
never noticed originally. But you can do fine work with
sub-par monitors if the room is good.

Over the weekend I spent a few hours listening to a wide variety of classic
rock songs on a system with really wide frequency response and dynamic
range. There was clearly a range of years where the bass extension and
balance started varying all over the map - what one might expect if people
were using equipment that was capable of goodly amounts of bass extension,
but they had no idea what they were putting out for distribution. It seemed
like things got back under control to a great degree in the 1990s.