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In Reply to: RE: Danger of 'too much' upgrade: some recordings once OK, now just plain suck. posted by Smelly_Socks on September 30, 2016 at 04:17:46
Every time I make an improvement (not every change is an improvement) to my system, it makes ALL music sound better, the good and the bad recordings. Better recordings become even better in every way, but bad ones, too, provide a little more information, a little more of the music. I have heard plenty of crappy recordings, but even those take on more life and become less obtrusive to the musical message. If that doesn't happen, then I know it's not an upgrade.
I sometimes fall into the trap of listening only to the sound, but the most recent change (new midrange drivers) was so overwhelming that I found myself totally immersed in the music. The sound, all of it, was merely there. I didn't need to focus on the kick drum or vocals or the violins.
If your new equipment makes some bad recordings sound worse, then perhaps it's not really an upgrade; it's simply replacing one coloration with another that emphasizes (or obscures) a different part of what's really wrong.
Peace,
Tom E
berate is 8 and benign is 9
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So the whole setup have more detail. Thus the layer of blanket is more clearly defined.
The music is better too. but so much more defined is the crap blanketing the music.
One point to make is the 'Princess and the Pea' syndrome.
As I find more detail,, how many mattresses down the stack IS that pea of discomfort?
This is something that is not as easily transmitted across boundaries like a post on the internet.
The issues are subtle. Small trivialities but still something to write about.
as it can be more easily distinguished from the music than is.... messy dross.
Not that I'm an expert on dross. Far from it.
Auto-Tune......
Auto-Tune is the one effect that to me sounds Gawd-awful on a good audio system. It's a lot more bearable through a cheap radio.
The autotune was pushed beyond it's limits into making a fantastic new sort of sound for Madonna.
Many other artists also use autotune to enhance the art.
Autotune has gone far beyond just hiding out of tune singing.
It's even more than that..... Roughly 95 percent of recent pop tracks have it..... (It would be more constructive to point out the artists/albums that don't have it.) Auto-Tune has engulfed the pop music industry like a Stage 4 cancer.
I am thankful that I don't listen to music affected by that particular abomination.
There are not enough people on Audio Asylum calling Auto-Tune for what it is: an abomination..... When I'm outside Audio Asylum, it's a totally different story.
I do think Auto-Tune is the single biggest deterrence for younger music listeners from becoming interested in high-end audio.
IMO, Pro-Tools as well.
Or maybe the upgrade discovers what that original recording really was: overly compressed panned mono dreck meant for Aunt Myrtle's console or LLoyd's all- in- one.
Just maybe your pre-upgrade system was less resolving and put a nice burnished glow in the form of say, distortion on one more parts of the audio spectrum that made the aberration less pronounced.
There are irrefutable techniques in recording that have been good practice for almost 100 years that are largely ignored because of cost or misguided priorities. Some labels are consistently bad because they don't adhere to good principles and some are almost always winners based on the care that was taken.
We can always value the music outside of the resolution of our system's capabilities however, that's not what we're discussing here.
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