In Reply to: RE: Certainly posted by Jaundiced Ear on February 20, 2016 at 22:29:09:
I can't speak for E-Stat, but will speak from my personal experience. A good deal of recorded music sounds poor, but the proportion varies greatly by musical genre, record label and specific engineers and producers. I figured this out 50 years ago, and took care to be selective in my purchases. Throughout the years I've acquired thousands of recordings in formats including mono LP, stereo LP, 2 track and 4 track tape, cassettes, CDs and now hires downloads. A large majority of my record collection sounds good to very good, and almost none of it sounds poor. Some sound excellent, musically exciting and startlingly realistic.
People who feel otherwise probably like musical genres that have been historically subjected to over-production, most recently loudness-wars butchery. They may not have figured out what record labels to avoid, sometimes dependent on specific musical genres and they have yet to figure out which engineers have consistently produced good recordings. It is also possible that they haven't learned out to set up their system so as to make recordings sound their best, within the limits of their room and budget. They may also be skilled at making themselves miserable, being "glass half-empty" type of people, in which case the problem has nothing to do with musical reproduction.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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- RE: Certainly - Tony Lauck 02/21/1609:17:56 02/21/16 (2)
- RE: Certainly - Jaundiced Ear 21:06:47 02/24/16 (0)
- What Tony said - E-Stat 09:56:59 02/21/16 (0)