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In Reply to: RE: Audio System Performance (a rant) posted by Presto on December 05, 2012 at 21:02:53
There being no sound standards for how recordings are to be made, a playback system that is set up to play a range of recordings well will be, at best, a compromise.
The idea is to arrive at a compromise that :
1. Makes the very best recordings sound magically real
2. Makes other very good recordings sound very good
3. Makes good recordings sound good
4. Makes all but very bad recordings enjoyable to listen to.
In my experience, this is not impossible to achieve. I have accomplished it recently with my present system and have done this in the past as well. In addition to being able to play music for hours on end without any fatigue, my system is also very revealing of recording details and faults, such as microphone patterns and extraneous sounds, and so is useful in mastering new recordings. However, if one just wants to enjoy the music, one does so and none of these technical details interferes.
There are recordings that are hopeless, of course. But in my collection they are few and far between, because I have taken care to weed out bad ones and to generally banish entire record labels that are notorious for their bad sound.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Follow Ups:
" But in my collection they are few and far between, because I have taken care to weed out bad ones and to generally banish entire record labels that are notorious for their bad sound."
How dare you?!?
You're supposed to collect based on only what you like and then swap out perfectly good components in a stream of endless iterations trying to make a handful of bad recordings sound listenable!! ;)
Just kidding. I do the exact same thing.
My view on audio and music is that a fastastic painting that is rendered in the wrong light or defaced or reproduced and altered is no better than a poor painting. I believe that something that is "good" (in terms of subjective quality) is worth capturing "well".
I also lean towards artists who seem to give a damn about recording methods and the quality of their final product. :P
I'm surely not all "music lover" - a good chunk of me is "audiophile".
Cheers,
Presto
Back in the early 1960's, my buddy J. Peter Moncrief and I used to read record jackets to see the name of the recording engineer. If it said "Lewis Layton" or "Bob Fine" we knew this was one to pull out of the stacks.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Wilma Cozart Fine was in charge of the Mercury Living Presence CD project, the results of which are nothing if not spectacular. And let"s not forget Bud Wilkinson.
Edits: 01/04/13
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