empty99;164840 Wrote: > Bad advice here... > > > I was only talking about using certain type of recording to help ID > neutral sounding gears. > See, regardless of type of music one enjoys (I certainly am guilty of > cranking it up with TOOLS once in awhile), our goal is still to > faithfully reproducing the source, all else is distortion. You surely > don't want to "distort" even Metallica, do ya? > > It's been awhile, using a friend's Stax headphone system. Some of the > recordings were from Nimbus Records' Ambisonic series, and some from > obscured sources I don't remember, but I remembered how they sounded!
At no point did I mention "distort" - you invented that. My point is simply that some systems can handle certain types of music better than others. For example, Quad ESL 57's sound rather nice with a bit of light choral...but they don't really make a great job of Led Zeppelin. So, if I mostly listened to choral stuff I might well be inclined to own a system with the Quads - and I wouldn't buy such a system if I mostly listened to hard rock. The idea of striving to faithfully reproduce the source is fine, but in practice this is easier with some sounds than others. So, IMHO it is essential to use a wide variety of source material that is relevant to your own listening preferences when choosing speakers etc. As you (all of us) have no idea what the music is actually supposed to sound like unless you were the producer/mastering engineer, we are only making subjective value judgements anyway - there is no absolute truth to compare fidelity against. -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30820 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
