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RE: For Clarification

Pop recordings have the highs boosted so they sound good on dinky speakers. They're the worst in this regard.

Several factors contribute to excessive highs in classical recordings: multimiking, close miking (few recordings are made in the audience and its been said that even audiophiles reject them), and forward-facing microphones that don't capture the ambient field. It also probably doesn't help that most dynamic speakers, including very good ones, have poor high frequency dispersion.

Anyway, it isn't a limitation of the equipment. People who try their own recordings are often surprised to find that they're better than commercial releases, not just because of a more natural balance but because they aren't compressed.

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