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In Reply to: The record makes the biggest difference posted by bdiament on January 26, 2002 at 06:32:04:
"I'd say the "height of the flight" is determined by the weakest link in the chain. Sometimes it's the recording."
--I quess its possible that the pressing/recording could be the weakest link but I've probably heard greater than 10,000 records in my life and never in any system was the pressing/recording the weakest link. I have rejected only a few records in my whole life due to absolute quality - though I have rejected many releases because the original or import release was of higher quality. And yes I am aware of quality diffences and agree they can be substantial."My initial point was that you can tell a recording is a great one even on the most mediocre system."
--I disagree with this as well. On a medicre system the best you could do is determine if the recording was medicre."Oh, and as to what most recordings sound like when played back in the studio: I don't know if you've ever been to a professional recording studio and/or heard what typically passes for "monitors". I've been to and worked in many. The monitoring in 99% of those studios is basically of the same quality that comes in a typical used car, only much louder. That's why engineers and producers are always taking a copy out of the studio to "see how it sounds". Makes you wonder, doesn't it?"
--What makes me wonder is if the studios are using such low fi gear to master records and CDs, and certainly the engineers/producers/musicians think the results are at least decent before they make a release how come the release sounds so bad on so much high end expensive equipment? I think the answer is that most high end gear is designed to reproduce a certain mix of "audiophile" parameters and not music - while most recording engineers and musicians attempt to capture music on the recording.Equipment manufactuers, magazines and most audiophiles find it much easier to justify bad sound based on recording quality than putting the responsibility where it actually belongs - on the equipment. It is much harder to build systems that serve the recordings, than it is to build systems that require "quality" (another topic in itself) recordings.
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- I don't think so. - Don T 01/26/0207:58:19 01/26/02 (0)
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