In Reply to: Re: Bad recordings are very useful... posted by Schu on May 3, 2007 at 03:59:00:
Perhaps we need to make categories of "bad". I'll stop here because this is can of worms.No it's a great point! It should not be a can of worms.
I have a hard time correlating "bad sound" with bad recordings. A recording can be very good, or sound very good, by audiophile standards and still sound bad to me - say bag pipes, a singer who's voice I can't stand, excessive production, etc.
On the other hand most recordings are bad by audiophile standards yet to me, most of them, sound pretty good to me ears. Of course I can judge the quality of the recording but I think this should not correlate with how I judge the sound of the recording.
How music is produced onto a recording is going to be obvious at playback but to my ears is only one of several factors that determines how it sounds as well as if it sounds good or bad.
As audiophiles we have no control over recording or music quality. What we have control over is sound quality.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
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- Re: Bad recordings are very useful... - Don T 13:41:16 05/03/07 (0)