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In Reply to: Drawing The Line Between The Quality Of The Recording Versus Your System posted by Robertc88 on May 2, 2007 at 09:12:55:
Depends on how we've designed our systems. If we've bias'd it around a select group of recordings chances are with dissimilar recordings the system won't work so well. Nothing wrong with that if the listener is mainly interested in the kinds of recordings that sound best on such a system. Granted I believe it's possible one can come up with a set of reference recordings that can completely define a systems performance. But most of those who attempt to do this report the worsening of performance on some other types/qualities of recordings - which to me indicates they've not properly selected the reference set - at least if accuracy is the desired result. And for clarification IMO "most live" or "most real" is not the same as most accurate. Don't get me wrong "most live" or "most real" is fine as long such audiophiles realize the compromises and sacrifices they are making (by limited the value of many recordings) is a choice not a requirment for high fi satisfaction.The reality of it is for most of us audiophiles, me included, the best we can do is use the widest diversity of recording styles and qualities for system evaluation. I think for those of us most interested in normal popular recordings the most realistic chance of getting a great sounding system is by using mostly recordings of interest and resorting to focusing on recordings of special (audiophile) merit when evaluations/comparisons aren't lending perfectly clear results.
Regardless. If an audiophile claims his system sounds great on some recordings and like dog poop on others it was his decision to make his system sound that way - and he admits to how he perceives it's performance. On the other hand if an audiophile thinks his system sounds great on just about every recording it was his decision to make his system sound that way - and he admits to how he percieves it's performance.
For me "Drawing The Line Between The Quality Of The Recording Versus Your System" isn't really the important point. The important point is "Drawing The Line Between The Quality Of The Sound of the System Versus Your System". Ie. I believe "bad sound" = "bad system" and the correlation between recording quality and "bad sound" is mostly (not always) excuses made by those attempting to sell or justify purchasing bad systems.
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