Earwaxer9, you're right, being a rocker greatly increases the arbitrariness factor in evaluating an audio system. Very few rock & pop albums are actually a recreation of a live event, and the recordings often contain heavy doses of artificial processing effects.
I've got a very eclectic taste in music and pretty much run the gamut. However, it was quite some time ago that I settled on acoustic music, both voice and instruments, as my criteria for judging a music system. (That does take in quite a bit of territory besides classical, as a lot of jazz, folk and bluegrass music doesn't contain much in the way of amplified or processed music.) I found that if a system gets the acoustic stuff right, that I'm also pretty happy with the rock, pop and other material. It is also a lot easier than constantly chasing what I imagine an artificially processed recording "should" sound like. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81283 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
