I'd also like to pile it on when it comes to the quality of recordings.
I find myself disagreeing with a lot of the stuff that is positioned as a super high recording standard out there. A lot of those are very sterile sounding, and rarely feature top artists and ensembles in a really inspired performance. It sounds sharp, but is "meh" artisitically, imho. Then there's the stuff everybody thinks every audiophile must cream his pants all over to be credible. Cliche stuff like Daft Punk's Random Access Memories. To me it's like "There's barely a single acoustic instrument reference point here, and they mixed this with musicians laying down their particular track all over the world and artificially mixing it together." If I hear anyone babbling about Nile Rodgers' "amazing dynamics" I'll crush their skull with an oversized wrench. Really. Is it odd some of my favorite recordings are 1960s tracks like Bill Evans' "Waltz for Debbie" or the Coltrane/Hartman album? There's also stuff like Kevin Mahogany's Enja albums, you can tell they were all *Present* in the performance, not listening to stuff on headphones by themselves while laying down their paid for track. And that is when the recording is good. I agree the majority of music is at best very indifferently recorded. ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine (on VMware Workstation) running Ubuntu 18.04 + LMS 7.9.1 System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- KEF Reference 1 Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> NAD D7050 -> Totem DreamCatcher + Velodyne Minivee Sub Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado RS1/Shure 1540 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111693 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
