REAL MUSIC VS. SHOW MUSIC PERFORMANCE AT AUDIO SHOWS. PRESENTATION V. PERFORMANCE? WHY?

Haven’t been to an audio show in YEARS. My choice of music covers multiple genres across various quality of source material.

All I know is that the “heart” of the performance should be there. I did get a major smile when after a Gregory Porter concert, I played my system and was surprised to find how amazingly close the music was to the live concert!

When I was auditioning equipment long ago, I performed what I call the “crap” test… great performance but BAD quality. The music should still be able to move me despite recording problems. If it does so, then I’m good!

Of course, YMMV.

Happy listening!

DeeCee

Silent Pound speakers  seem  interesting.

But the choice of music in this audio show ......?????
 

https://youtu.be/hewlEBbpGGo

+1  @bigtwin 

Munich High End .

Almost like you were there

I used to have people over to listen to the system when I was more active socially. Many times a person would come along with a single CD and ask to play a specific track. You could see they were making a judgement of the whole system based on one piece of music that presumably sounded good on their own system at home. Crazy. It’s the same at shows, which is why some vendors are reluctant to let people play their own stuff.

I don’t have the problem these days as I’m deep under cover.