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: I dunno about others, but when I've gone back to listen
to many of what
I consider classic albums I enjoy the music for what it is unless I put
on the engineer's hat. Then I can hear out of tune vocals here, edits
there, low mid mush on this song, upper mid fuzziness on that one, harsh
cymbals, reverbs that don't seem
right to me, etc. etc.

I guess it depends if you're talking about "Louie, Louie" or Ella Fitzgerald.
One of my fav jokes is to play 50's era jazz cuts for youthful musicians who
think you are playing a new album. Or when I played Stan Getz's "3 x 3 x 2 x 2
x 2 = 72" for a youngblood. When he heard the band stops in the middle of the
song where the music roars back, he commented "Listen to that fake reverb." I
guess it just depends on what Classic album you're refering to.