Kurt Cobain famously hated overproduction. He wanted noise, feedback, and humanity. The irony is that a $50,000 analog playback chain, digitized to a mathematically perfect 24-bit/96kHz container, delivers that humanity better than any direct master tape.
Let’s get specific. If you download the typical MP3 of "Territorial Pissings" (from Nevermind ), high hats are a hiss, bass is a thud. Now, open the PBTHAL Incesticide rip. Play (track B3 on most pressings). Nirvana - Incesticide -1992- -PBTHAL LP 24-96- ...