PRaT on Records

As a newbie to this forum (well, I have been "listening" for quite som while) I'm just dying to bring up this topic. I can't remember I read or heard much about it.

Well, the topic then. Here in Naimland PRaT is considered to be the main thing when it comes to Hifi equipment. And there are a huge difference between different equipment.
But should this not be the matter with the software to? The records are made with different equipment (tons of them, it seems), equipment that should make the records PRaT differently. Of course there are lots of talk about about "well recorded" records, mainly in the "Round earth" world. But that's mostly about sound quality in the old sense, not PRaT.

IMHO this not the case. Or at least it's much smaller. How can this be?

Some ideas:

- The equipment in the studio world is in fact quite good when it comes to PRaT. The popular myth in the Hifi community is that the studio guys don't have a clue to anything, they just messes things up, should be put up against a wall etc. etc. Well, maybe they DO knew what they are doing. They are making music and this music must sell, otherwise they are out of business. And to do this they use equipment that makes the MUSIC sound good, equipment that PRaT:s well (of course they never heard of the word PRaT, but that's not the point). My experience in the studio world is zero, so I'm guessing here.

- There is big differences in PRaT on records but I do not here it like that. When there is bad PRaT on a record I just think that the music is booring for me to listen to, it's bad music and I listen to something I like instead.

- PRaT is something that is added in the Hifi system. NO I don't think so.

JohanR