darrenyeats wrote: > You can hear modern levels of compression easily on a portable radio. > It's that bad. And it's not talked about widely enough - if it was > perhaps we'd have less of it. > > A great many playback systems have a significant dip in the mid-range > (don't get me wrong, no system is completely flat and if you're going to > err then a slightly dipped mid-range is the way to err--I'm talking > about deliberately designed voicing.) Domestic designers do this mainly > because so much music is compressed and it's more palatable that way. > > So, checking what their recording sounds like on "representative > equipment", the artists use compression to "cut through" a mix and the > circle is complete. It's a race to the bottom. > > It's like everyone's given up. One chink of light is THX certification > which has definitely helped better mastering of soundtracks and filmed > concerts. The difference between these and the equivalent CDs is > sometimes striking. > Darren
Goes in line with I try to say I'm not out for perfection , then I would only by sterile audiophool records but just not the race to the bottom . But if OP has not gone away , I have not had B&W speakers but if they are hard to drive as claimed there could be something in what people says about amps in this case , does it sound unpleasant on high or low volumes ? or all the time . Overdriving the amp gives a fatiguing sound . I did have some old floor standing dynaudios they where not happy with anything but 200-400 wpc . Hi-Fi history have produced many speakers that are some kind of anomalies that makes life very hard for the amp . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97105 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
