The artist's intent is to express his feelings, emotions, and insights using the natural aspects of our musical tonal system, and words, often poetic.

Surely the artist relys on the monitors in the studio to determine whether the results are expressing his intent, and this may be, but often is not, an accurate representation of alive event.

We then attempt to reproduce this sound with our obsession with varying degrees of success.

Often remasters are done by people who have not experienced the original era in which the music was created, and that is an important part of any creation, the context. They may be told to remaster it to make it cleaner, brighter, or louder on average in order to get the attention of potential listeners who are fans of the original, but often the ethos can be lost.

There are certain bits of music which are created entirely to show off Hi-Fi systems, but I think this is declining in favour of the remaster process which of course results in re-buying and greater profits for the record companies.