In many ways the death of George Martin is as sad as the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison.
George Martin was a great musician and a great record producer. He was a generalist in the age of the specialist. He was able to succeed right across the spectrum of music.
As " The fifth Beatle" he succeed in bringing the best of popular music to the masses.
In the 1960s Hi-Fi would have been a luxury; we had to listen to The Beatles on Dansette type record players or over AM radio. There was no MP3, WAV or FLAC to worry about. HD music hyperbole did not exist. Most teenagers played back their records using sapphire needles and ceramic cartridges. They could not have cared less about linear frequency response. Wow and Flutter were every day hazards. Most amplifiers produced mains hum and distorted the music at relatively low volume levels.
The Beatles music shone through all of problems associated with the sound reproduction of the day. It was only the music that mattered and it sounded just as good then as it does today: with or without Moving Coil Cartridges, HD FLAC files or 180 gm virgin vinyl.
