If it plays "badly" on my system, how would I know if it is a "good" recording? For example, I was listening to Journey and it seems that a lot of their music has a lot of "glare," at least on my system. Is it in the recording, or does my system just bring it out? I think much of the "glare" that we hear in lots of recordings is actually in the "fuzz tone" for the guitar that just doesn’t take well to digital transformation. |
Hey @toddalin - What I meant was, that the music is good, but doesn't necessarily sound good on your system. I meant to separate out the lyrical and musical notes from the choices and limitations in the recording. For instance, there may be a classical tenor who was gifted and recorded with an excellent orchestra but which your system does not like. |
A recent lousy example... mastering technician on crack literally had monitors out of phase, wondered where the bass went and eq'd it to high hell (ya can't make up this crackhead stuff). Fortunately, it was a digital master. You have to do forensics on it to salvage certain recordings. On a related note, i have a ns5000 based setup with a certain turntable primarily dedicated to fix crap and archive albums from obscure long gone artists (only a very crappy old pressing exists, etc)...Endured some wallet abuse, but, it was probably worth it to get the best possible salvage solution for some artist voices that would otherwise be lost forever.
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@deep_333 - Please share the details of the recording! |
My top system was low cost with Mission best speakers... Sansui amplification... Good dac from SPS... The album is "three penny" opera of Kurt Weil ... Total surround sound from stereo speakers in my dedicated acoustic room ( I saw the singers singing and walking speaking around my room and near my ears etc ).. (100 tuned resonators located near the drivers and my ears )... The speakers matter less than their link with the room... The brand name of the gear matter less than the electrical control of the grid ... Good sound is related to knowledge not to money ... Here an extreme exemple of this at way more price than mine though : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgqYxbJawqU
A bad recording is a recording which was recorded with not enough spatial acoustic information ( you cannot translate in your room which was never accurately recorded )... But a bad recording on a well optimized system/room will be better anyway than in a bad one...
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