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In Reply to: RE: T.H.E. Show Speaker report, and excess opinionated rants posted by hahax@verizon.net on June 10, 2016 at 10:11:13
I like just about everything. Classical is probably 30% of what I listen to.
I feel sorry for those that have such narrow tastes in music. There is great stuff to be found in every genre.
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i might like a fraction of other genres of music (5 pct of pop, 2 pct of hip hop, 15 pct of 'alternative' and 20 percent of jazz), but i dont have enough time or mind to go through the filtering and learning what i like vs liking 65 pct of classical. And i am lucky enough to enjoy a genre where loudness war in mastering is null to small.
That wasn't the point, just that the comments made me think of Bud, one of the interesting figures in audio over many decades. And I will ad that testing without tons of classical music is for me highly flawed.
With all rock and almost all pop the sound has been so massaged and mangled that who could trust what they hear to be anything like true reproduction of instruments?
Agreed. The typical studio multi-mic, panned mono recording is not that useful for critical evaluation. Minimalist mic classical or jazz tells us what we need to know.
Pop/rock is great music and can sound wonderful in many cases. Still not much of a benchmark for determining system performance.
Large scale classical is the most demanding type of music in terms of harmonics, acoustics, dynamics. If a system sounds/performs well with large scale classical it will sound great with anything else.
But if many audiophiles don't care for classical no need to beat a dead horse and force them to listen at shows.
I agree with most of the above, and I particularly recall Gordon Holt advocating recordings of live, unamplified music for assessing equipment. I have had useful symphonies, lieder, and especially string quartets for the purpose. Not necessarily always the greatest performances of the greatest pieces, but always records or tapes with which I was very familiar so as to quickly hear differences. Comparison of sonic personalities with technical measurements has always been a matter of interest to me.
Content preferences for music- (as opposed to equipment-) listening are matters of taste, not subject to any measurement I know of.
Jeremy
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