JayGilb
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You're just experimenting with other genres, not abandoning listening to metal. Enjoy them all, there is so much good music to experience, so expand your horizons and you will find that you will always be a metal lover.
Conversely, recordings that were only "meh" with mediocre gear are revealed to be pretty darn interesting, once you can hear everything.One thing I have discovered over the years is that "good gear" exposes bad recordings. In the many cases, "good gear" can make really bad recordings virtually unlistenable.
I totally agree. A revealing system allows to you hear more of what has been cut to the file/CD/LP. If it's been recorded or mastered badly then that's what you get. As others have suggested try adding a (relatively) inexpensive equalizer like the Schiit Loki Mini+. It can tame some of the worst of what's been done. I should also say that bad recording or mastering is not just done on popular music. I own a lot of classical music that has been over exaggerated in the highs, heaven knows why.One thing I have discovered over the years is that "good gear" exposes bad recordings. In the many cases, "good gear" can make really bad recordings virtually unlistenable.
Or it can show what is in the record. I actually enjoy very poorly made records with a ton noise and poor production. But that´s actually what makes the sound interesting on those records. I do not expect Sepultura´s Bestial Devastation (the original thing, not the re-recorded) or Emperor´s Wrath of the Tyrant to be well produced (both are demos) but I still enjoy what I listen there. Gear will give me what is there; nothing more, nothing less.One thing I have discovered over the years is that "good gear" exposes bad recordings. In the many cases, "good gear" can make really bad recordings virtually unlistenable.
Are you the same as Supernova777 on OS9 Lives by chance?Greetings!
I would like to get some data and your thoughts on this topic -- why audio equipment affects music genre preference?
Does it affect in your case? Do you care about it? Do you know other people who experienced same influence of equipment? Is there some data on the web about it, other forum threads etc?
At first I was listening to music on my iphone with earpods, like everyone else. From childhood I liked rock music with years going harder and harder. Got quite a library of albums I like. Then I bought a sonos speaker, my preferences didn't change much.
After that I got my first "audiophile" setup -- HD650, custom made DAC on ESS chip and Drop THX amp. On this set up I started looking for classic/modern-classic music because metal didn't sound good for me. Then I have ordered some Topping DAC to test if I can hear the difference between DACs, and it was "night and day" difference for me, but my blind testing didn't prove I could differentiate between these DACs. Custom DAC was better at details but Topping was better with rock music. On the long run I still sticked to a custom made and listened less and less of metal music but when I am outside going to the gym or shop --> never listened to classic music using earpods.
With time I really wanted to switch to standalone speakers so when I got some money, I spent them on Monitor audio silver 500 + NAD C 298 + IFI signature DAC (just for now). The first time I have connected everything I listened to some of my favourite metal albums and.... I am not sure I liked it very much. Yep, details were amazing but I didn't want to listen to metal. I have played my favourite modern classic album -- eulogy for evolution and man, I almost got tears in my eyes how beautiful it was. It has been a week since I have this set up and I still try to listen some metal but I really don't quite like it. I am listening to some classic music 95% of my time now.
The only suggestion I have that might not be equipment is the concentration. When I am going to the gym or driving a car I am not really focused on the music, so on the background metal sounds best, for me, maybe. But when I am fully concentrated during my listening session at home I find rock music not that.. interesting??
Distinctly feel polka-at-home to be uninvolving through class d.I have tried lots of stuff in my library but it is all the same still -- I listen to metal when in the car or on the go somewhere but I just can't list to it in my home system. I don't like it.
Peter Gabriel comes to mind. Album number 4 still gives HiFi systems a pretty good workout 40+ years later. (Original CD master preferred, the very loudest drum hits in the remaster are audibly clipped. You can hear the fade-in emerge from crunchy quantization distortion, a sign of insufficient ADC dithering in the old PCM1610s used for mastering at the time. The PCM1630 explicitly added digital random noise generators(!) to fix this.)Conversely, recordings that were only "meh" with mediocre gear are revealed to be pretty darn interesting, once you can hear everything.
Before I got my in-room bass response under control with room correction, I tended to find piano and orchestra recordings too thumpy to enjoy.Greetings!
I would like to get some data and your thoughts on this topic -- why audio equipment affects music genre preference?
Does it affect in your case? Do you care about it? Do you know other people who experienced same influence of equipment? Is there some data on the web about it, other forum threads etc?
I think it's just a side-effect of the audiophile synergy thing. By choosing just the right magic combination, a particular genre is enhanced.I'm always scratching my head when people list their music preferences when asking questions about audio gear. If the gear can't play any genre you're interested in, something is wrong IMO....but it could just be a lousy recording otoh.
First time reading this by you and VMAT4, I thought "of course" and moved on. But for some reason I kept thinking about mood.Sounds more like a mood thing than anything else.
Sometimes in unexpected ways. I started dislikng rock and preferring breakbeat hardcore from the 90s.our tastes do change as we get older
Oh, you bet. The next thing after my Kate Bush / Peter Gabriel phase was... Throwing Muses.Sometimes in unexpected ways.
start hereI have tried lots of stuff in my library but it is all the same still -- I listen to metal when in the car or on the go somewhere but I just can't list to it in my home system. I don't