How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music?


Each to their own.

But can you really evaluate a system by listening to highly processed, electric/electronic music? How do you know what that sounds like?

I like to listen to voices and acoustic music that is little processed. 

Instruments like piano, violin, etc. 

And the human voice. And the joy of hearing back up singers clearly, etc.

Even if full instrumentation backing a natural sounding voice.

(eg.: singer/songwriters like Lyle Lovett or Leonard Cohen)

There is a standard and a point of reference that can be gauged.

 

mglik

Showing 1 response by clearthinker

Pace John Atkinson and his bass, but it depends on how much processing.  If he just amplifies the sound direct from the instrument using a vanilla amplifier then yes, a direct comparison between systems can have validity.  But if the signal is processed to the point of being artificialised then there is no basis for comparison.  All you can say is rendition on which system excites you the most.