Having a varied digital playlist accentuates the wheat from the chaff. Just now had to adjust the volume from a Temptations song just to make it palatable. Most are ok, some amazing, others horrid. My system is a doorway.
Do you trust your system?
I was constantly upgrading gear, demoing songs, reading reviews, trying to find out why I had the feeling that the song I was playing shouldn’t sound the way it does. Something off or lacking, I luckily found a set of equipment and a room setup that if a song is off, it’s likely recorded that way. I trust my system to do a decent job. I wonder do others get to a point where they are more critical of mastering techniques than something wrong with their equipment? Admittedly, it’s easier to say how a piece of gear or cable made some significant difference, but in what exactly since the music sources are so wildly manipulated by engineers?
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The quality of the recording makes a huge difference. I recently attended a performance at Stanford University special jazz room and really enjoyed the quality of the sound. Returning home I played the same songs and it sounded pretty much the same. It's the recording, our expensive systems are really good.
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@steakster - A-ha! Clive indeed! First I was gonna say 'none of them' or something like that, but I changed it to 'with a very few exceptions' - also people like the late Ahmet Ertugan. A friend of mine used to be president of Capital Records for a few years (I first met him when he was an order taker for a record company), and he was also somebody who really cared about music; he'd even send out CD's of music that wasn't even on his label to people because he thought they should hear them. |
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