Song's sound quality

How does the sound quality of the song affect you? If at all.

For instance, one of my friends loves the new recording techniques, he states that the crystal clearness makes him feel that much more like dancing, where he can tell each instrument appart.

Where as to me, the new sound quality gives the music a "computarized", almost off a keyboard kind of sound. More over, it gives it a sense of coming from an abyss, cold, distant, the instruments are so clear that, to me, they have a feel of being recorded at different times, causing the song not to seem as one as old recording techniques.

I feel as if the warmness, the togetherness, the sense that the band is there for real, not just a computerized version of the song, even if I agree that the songs sound clearer, I by all means do not like it!

He contiues on stating that it is all the "background" noise that kills him, I understand that, but I feel that the music needs some, not much, like in 60s recordings, but some to make it feel real... for even when we speak to each other, there is indeed a background void, that unlike today's recordings doesn't feel like an abyss, but simply a little void that doesn't go too deep....
 
Computerized sounds aggravates the fitznippins out of me. :x It all sounds the SAME. There is nothing more PERFECT than the raw sound of a musical instrument that's actually being played by a HUMAN in the music of Salsa. I listened to three Salsa songs in a row this week and noticed that very same thing. At first, I thought it was the same producer but nope, it's just the sound of the last decade. I love technology (I'm a computer geek) but in Salsa music, I prefer the real instruments that I can identify or notice that they are there. Too much polish is not necessarily a good thing in this case. END RANT. :lol:
 
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