... thoughts on Taylor Swift's REPUTATION CD...

You wrote a whole paragraph complaining about oddball posts that don't make sense and didn't even remotely make yourself clear. Maybe its contagious.

Thank you n80 for your explaination of acman3 post about the DR site.
For some reason: the acman3 post showed up after my post questioning it (look at the times: acman3 at 2:26 and my post at 3:27).

greg22lz: Confused by your post; not sorry if I seem pedatic to you. My title for the forum is pretty direct and I ask because I'd like to know, not annoy you...

My topic is under the MUSIC FORUM; I am not an audiophile, I am a music lover. Maybe I shouldn't be posting here, maybe this is too sophisticated a site, maybe too high-brow - or maybe you should be blowing your steam off in some other forum, or on some site designed for that purpose...

My thoughts are that...

Taylor Swift's "main" audience is 67%+ female and her general audience is in the 18-24 age range.

Taylor Swift is no George Gobel.

DeKay

@greg22lz , these posts may seem pedantic or oddball but you’ve been here a long time. I think we have a new generation of members, some who are experienced audiophiles and others who love music and want to build a system and join this hobby.

When I see an "oddball" post I check the date the OP joined. There’s a very high number who have joined in the last year...IMO, a great thing.
This OP has another thread in which he asks for recommendations of high quality recordings to test a system. That sounds like somebody who’s pretty new to high-end audio.

Based on the DR scale, the recording in question is as bad as it can possibly get and is high on the unlistenable scale.
The advice the OP should receive is the explanation of the recording process, compression, and the Loudness Wars.

... thank you all for your input... and thank you lowrider57 for the suggested topics for me to investigate and learn from.

BEST WISHES TO ALL, AND ENJOY YOUR MUSIC.