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In Reply to: RE: You've pretty much answered all of your own questions... posted by genungo on September 26, 2014 at 07:01:10
"I agree that Hip Hop can sound as good or even better on lo-fi gear. "
Forget that dude - why are you talking down to hip hop.
No doubt some Hip Hop can sound MUCH better on a hifi. No different than any other genre.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
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My experience is that low-fi recordings almost never sound *better* on a hi-fi system than they do on a lo-fi one - they simply sound *different* on the hi-fi system...The primary difference is that the bass is usually much better and more controlled when played back on a hi-fi system. Everything else about the lo-fi recording - the mids, the highs, the vocals, etc... - sounds as bad or even worse on the hi-fi system. A big part of the problem is that the balance between the highs, mids, and lows on some lo-fi recordings gets thrown out of wack on a hi-fi system. This happens when the lo-fi recording is made to be heard on a lo-fi system, rather than a hi-fi one.
Also, it is not my intention to diss Hip Hop as a musical genre. As I've said, I believe it has it's place in the Pantheon.
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Its fallacy to think all lofi systems have similar colorations.
If one considers "best" as hearing what is actually on the recording then the hifi is almost always going to sound better.
If someone believes some trashy lofi system "sounds better" than their hifi more power to them. But I don't buy it - sounds like an excuse/rationalization for their big system sounding so bad with certain qualities of recordings.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
We all have to place the blame somewhere, I guess.
whether one wants to chose a system that gives them access to all music of interest or chose music that sounds best on their system of choice.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
.., I think you can have a system that performs well playing all music that's of interest to you, with better recordings sounding increasingly better - as they truly should sound.We need not be afraid of a system that reminds us that terrible recordings are terrible recordings, because a good system simultaneously delivers anything of musical value along with the bad things contained in every recording. IMO, it would be better if we learned to mentally extract the good while mentally ignoring the bad in recordings as much as possible, than to try creating a system that smooths over all truths in all recordings. A little smoothing might be OK, too much is not OK.
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