Remastering

I was listening to 73 Nassau the other day and good show horrible recording and it got me thinking. 

I knew a guy who remodeled classic cars mostly for himself but for a while he did it for a living. He owned several of them and we drove around Coeur D'alene ID where he lived. If you enjoy people waving at you get a classic car. Anyway as far as classic cars restoration goes there is no value put on original. He had modern suspension in his and he had the original AM radio face plate but it folded down to reveal a fully modern stereo system with speakers throughout. 

Now from watching Antique Roadshow I know that when it comes to furniture any restoration degrades the value. The piece could barely stand up on it's own and it would be more valuable than doing a little fix on it and making it functional.

Which brings me back to Nassau 73. From my brief exposure to video technology I know you can take just about any source material and up res it to 4k, or make it longer or shorter or add color to it pretty much completely change it from the original. I don't anything about audio remastering but my guess is particularly with AI you could remaster anything to sound like the crispest recording with all the 2026 bells and whistles. Now it wouldn't be the original it would be what a computer thinks they sounded like back then. Is that frowned upon in the remastering world. I saw and interview with David Lemieux recently and the interviewer was playing the name that year game with him which he nailed every time but he said he didn't as much listen to two drummers or Donna as much as the recording. He could tell what year it was just from what the recording sounded like. Anyway I vote for making that Nassau 73 a better listen and don't care if it isn't exactly what was recorded that night.