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First of all, I doubt seriously there was a *single* answer. You can find a number of references where producers wanted a hot top end to "punch through" on radio. Here is one of the vintage EQ units employed for mastering. It is simply a parametric EQ.

Sontec EQ

Whatever the case, it still is EQ which means that for any slope you produce, you can reverse it.

I'm gonna check out of this discussion having grown very tired of the faux Southerner's shell games. My experience is that the problem lay with the first gen players, not so much the recordings other than typical pop mix antics. Naturally, this boost theory would mean that some early recordings would still sound inherently different from the original vinyl version. I have a number of CDs for which I also have the vinyl and don't find huge HF differences. Maybe that was more prevalent with the country music he listens to - a genre I do not.

Anyway, I remember replacing my Magnavox POS with a Pioneer PD-54 Elite back in '93 and noticing the same kinds of differences I recall when I compared my Citation 11 to a JC-2 over a decade before: bigger soundstage, more focus throughout, and a much more refined top end. And my current GamuT CD-1 does better still on top with the same recordings (especially using a Harmonic Tech Magic PC).

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