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RE: Audio System Performance (a rant)

Posted by Tony Lauck on December 7, 2012 at 13:22:37:
Here's a story of the interaction between a recording and the playback system, prompted by your post.

The other day I download a 96/24 recording of Bruckner's 7th. The performance had sounded good from the samples, but when I played the recording the sound was horribly harsh. As I was suffering all the way through I decided to play a game, namely to guess exactly what parametric EQ settings to use that would improve the recording. As it turned out, I wasn't right on, but a few minutes more tweaking and I had a "remastered" version of the recording that actually sounded very good, with a full sound stage, no dullness, but virtually all of the harshness from the strings long gone.

What were the engineers thinking? Or, more probably, what was wrong with the system they were using to monitor the recording? Who is right? Who is wrong? Which version of the recording is good or bad? Things for people who only listen to recordings to think about.