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In Reply to: RE: it is amazing the difference in well recorded albums posted by bullethead on March 15, 2015 at 17:39:04
Is it necessary to buy anything more than a decent mid-fi system if one only listens to mainstream pop drek?
And yet despite the look on my face, you're still talking.
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Just use an i-pod with tinny earbuds or thumpy fashion phones. Anything better will only tell you how awful the drek really sounds, and render it completely unlistenable.
one could argue that mid-fi components sound more "tolerable" when playing "drek", considering superior electronics widen the sonic window allowing more crap in ...
Years ago, I had two systems: my main dedicated room system, plus a stereo/HT system within the family room. That was NAD/Rega/Rotel based equipment, arguably mid-fi, still it performed quite well. Certainly, it made all my drek sounding CDs more listenable.
Within my main system, drek sounds bigger & wider and MUCH more annoying ...
tb1
"Is it necessary to buy anything more than a decent mid-fi system if one only listens to mainstream pop drek?"This is why quality sound reproduction is no longer a point of interest in the mainstream.... The recordings are poor and overprocessed, and the consumers by and large don't see any value added to reproduce it well.
This is a sad state because this was NOT the case for mainstream consumers prior to the digital age. I miss the days where you just could walk into a mainstream electronics store and hear quality sound reproduction.
Edits: 03/17/15
Wow, you really got your pitch in there!
"All was beautiful when vinyl ruled the land".
So you think that 45s equed for play on car radios were great recordings?
Multi-tracking was more to blame than anything else IMHO.
You sound like you never heard a jaw droppping digital recording made with minimal miking and minimal junk in the signal path.
"You sound like you never heard a jaw droppping digital recording made with minimal miking and minimal junk in the signal path."
When it comes to recent popular music recordings, which is the topic of discussion, you are correct..... [-;
To paraphrase - The quality of the performance is usually inversely proportional to the quality of the recording
That's what's frustrating. Classic example, for me, is Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea. In my opinion, this album is a modern classic and it is a hugely influential record, but was recorded like utter BS.
This was probably an aesthetic choice by the band, but it's an incredibly frustrating and stupid choice, IMO.
It's sad, but this recording sounds just as good on my computer through Spotify as it does on my system with "180 gram audiophile vinyl".
I need to start getting into boiled celery female "jazz singers" accompanied by a cocktail drum kit and acoustic guitar.
Such a shame. It
or quality of the music?
roger wang
Can the performance of bad music ever be considered great, regardless of proficiency?
Can a bad performance ever create great music, regardless of what's on the sheet?
I think, in this case, that the terms may be considered interchangeable.
There are good rap performances, which many would consider awful as music..... I've heard awful classical and jazz performances, but many would consider the music to still be good.......
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it's your interpretation that one cannot exist without the other....and considering the nature of this website/message board, it is all the more surprising to see two different aspects of music called "interchangeable"
do you listen to lacklustre (?) music greatly performed, too?
roger wang
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