[bloke_zero]

It seems weird to me that people would disregard the input of the artist and producer who will have painstakingly mixed the original - surely that is as much a part of the art form as the music in many cases? I'm thinking of records like "Bitches Brew" where you couldn't just go back to the master recordings and recreate them without Miles in the room.

Though I guess the early stereo mixes for e.g. The Beatles were often done without the band's input simply because no one was interested in the stereo mix - it was all about the mono mix. 2nd Engineer Richard Lush said “The only real version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the mono version.

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/sgt-peppers-lonely-hear...

The format controversy runs and runs!

[chrisseaton]

I guess it's philosophical, but why should the original artist have the any say on how people re-interpret their art?

[mackrevinack]

im not sure what a good analogy might be... a gallery displaying a replica of some famous painting but deciding that part of it needs to be brightened up? i think most people would find that really odd