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In Reply to: RE: For too many 'audiophile' + 'music' = 'classical'. posted by jusbe on September 27, 2014 at 17:14:44
Yeah, what he said.
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There's some truth behind that equation and it's not all because of snobbishness. It's where the road leads us sometimes. Labels that are still trying to produce high-resolution, natural sounding, dynamically uncompressed recordings are, all too often, the small classical labels.
Labels specializing in the musical genres likely to reap the most radio, computer, and TV time are way more likely to be involved in unnatural sounding trends such as "the loudness wars" than these small classical labels are.
So, if you want realistic sounding recordings you might end up seeking out the small classical labels - even if classical is not your favorite musical genre. ECM is an "audiophile" label that specializes in Jazz-inspired music as well as some other types of "unpopular" music, but I'd say that the majority of decent recordings made nowadays are coming from the classical sectors.
Naturally this is not an absolute argument but I was trying not to stray off topic, in that I commented on the audiophiles posting on boards such as these.
Your ideas about labels, in my experience, are probably more true today than in the past. Aside from ECM, East Wind are another jazz label that immediately spring to mind as folk who care about recording quality. But even today, publish such as Nonesuch pay good attention to similar sonic values.
My point is (and it's been made elsewhere in this thread repeatedly), there is nothing inherently poor about Hip Hop which would suggest that it is not deserving - as a genre - of audiophile playback. And audiophile systems can be used to celebrate and explore all types of music, to the elucidation of spirit and living. Choosing to demote one musical form over another, at best, smacks of a lack of imagination and curiosity and, at worst, betrays fear, deep-seated issues of low self-esteem and a tendency toward fractured thought.
Just my opinion, of course.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
I agree that every genre, if not every artist, that seems amenable deserves top notch treatment in the recording studio. Too bad some labels are intent on competing against other labels in "the loudness wars", while embracing similar types of distortions.
Edits: 09/29/14
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