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RE: A question for reviewers

I bring the same music that I listened to when I first started listening to albums (my first CD was a band called "The Outfield" and I still play it on gear.

What I don't do however is judge the result of the stereo on any one particular piece of music even if I like the way the stereo reproduces it.

The problem with using music you know well is that you are USED to the way your own stereo reproduces the music - if it is presented differently on another stereo the knee jerk may be to thing the new stereo(variable) is reproducing it incorrectly - when it may be the home reviewer's stereo that is lacking and our ears just adapted to the way our home stereo (reference) presents music.

What I want is to listen to a huge variety of genres and recording qualities - the ones that differentiate them the most is likely the one doing the better job - because if everything kind of sounds the same - then it (speaker or system) is placing it's own signature on everything.

An awful lot of very highly regarded stereos unfortunately homogenize everything. Most solid State amplifiers, most CD players, most cables. And an easy tell is that no one has been able to successfully tell most of apart when the brands are unseen and the volume levels are matched. If the differences were truly large then you would always successfully tell them apart. So at best they're subtle which means they're still both homogenizing the sound. But that's another issue.




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