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

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mglik
THANK YOU!

I have mentioned that so many times and that is probably my biggest reason to give negative comments on things like Graphic equalizers. You might be getting what YOU think a song should sound like but that isn’t necessarily what the artist of Engineering staff intended. Thankfully I am not alone on that and many high end designers provide a bypass circuit to eliminate the TONE elements completely. In my mind if I don’t like the way some album is mixed, then it is their fault and I am not going to waste a lot of time or money trying to make them into something that aren’t.

ALSO along similar lines I take offense at people trying to colour there sound in general by the types of equipment. Of course we al have our preferences but are they NATURAL. I was just listening to a new (to me) artist yesterday and though I liked the content of their songbook, it was unusually bright and almost too much so. I did find that while streaming to some of their other albums, they weren’t so bright. This was an eyeopener for me as I have never really noticed what audiophiles were talking about when telling us that what they experienced in a particular situation was ’Bright’ sounding music. I guess that speaks volumes about MY experience.
As Fuzztone mentioned Do you like it or do you spend your time tearing it appart.