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In Reply to: Re: The record makes the biggest difference posted by bdiament on January 25, 2002 at 11:54:31:
"If you're saying one can still enjoy the music, I agree."
--A minimum system requirement - enjoy the music regardless of recording quality.
"But...to an extent, enjoyment is curtailed when for example, when the sound of a carefully chosen instrument or the tone a player spends years to achieve, is massacred by bad engineering".
--This is sad and I quess it depends on the listener how much of an effect its going to have. You would hope the musician after taking years to achieve a certain tone would have cared that it was captured properly. I suspect that bad engineering has equally detrimental effects during playback as well.
"Yes, I still love the music and marvel and the genius behind it but also, I'll always wonder how much beauty I'm missing because of heavy handed engineering and producing."
--We really can't speculate on that. But we can attempt to determine whether our playback systems are giving us what the engineers/producers intended us to hear. I'd suspect that a very large majority of recordings when played back in the studio sounded pretty good to the engineers. I don't think its unreasonable for an expensive home system to sound at least pretty good with a very large majority of recordings its asked to playback.
I'll just never agree with the "sounds best on the radio" or my "boombox sounds better" excuses for why certain types of recordings don't sound so good on many (not so good) hifi systems, that just tells me they aren't as good as a car stereo or a boombox. On the other hand I don't think most "audiophile" releases sound better than the regular releases - though many of them sound less objectionable on some (objectionable sounding) systems.But alas I still disagree, though its obvious that the best quality of recording is going to determine how high any particular system might be able to fly, the height of the flight is ultimately limited by the system. An ok recording of great music on a great systems is much better than a great recording of great music on an ok system.
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Follow Ups
- Re: The record makes the biggest difference - Don T 01/25/0213:36:28 01/25/02 (2)
- The record makes the biggest difference - bdiament 06:32:04 01/26/02 (1)
- I don't think so. - Don T 07:58:19 01/26/02 (0)
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