dallasjustice
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- #41
Here's my screed:
Pretty much all modern music is meant to be played loud. I know us audiophiles have done our part to rebel against it and have failed. So let's accept defeat and adapt to the world in which we find ourselves; not the world we pretend still exists.
Many folks erroneously believe that there's always a trade off between playing loud/dynamic and refinement. IOW, you have systems for 3 pieces jazz trios and different systems for modern music. IMO, we unwittingly find ourselves drawn only to the music which sounds best in our system. This state of affairs is undesirable because it narrows musical variety.
IME, systems can be designed so that all musical genre sound great, without compromise. Just imagine a system in which all recordings sound correct, even the ones we once thought were "bad recordings." Can we accept that there's no such thing as a "bad recoding?" All recordings were meant to sound the way they do for a reason. The artist is always sovereign in his/her artistic endeavor. It's up to us to figure out how to make their art come alive in our systems.
Michael.
Pretty much all modern music is meant to be played loud. I know us audiophiles have done our part to rebel against it and have failed. So let's accept defeat and adapt to the world in which we find ourselves; not the world we pretend still exists.
Many folks erroneously believe that there's always a trade off between playing loud/dynamic and refinement. IOW, you have systems for 3 pieces jazz trios and different systems for modern music. IMO, we unwittingly find ourselves drawn only to the music which sounds best in our system. This state of affairs is undesirable because it narrows musical variety.
IME, systems can be designed so that all musical genre sound great, without compromise. Just imagine a system in which all recordings sound correct, even the ones we once thought were "bad recordings." Can we accept that there's no such thing as a "bad recoding?" All recordings were meant to sound the way they do for a reason. The artist is always sovereign in his/her artistic endeavor. It's up to us to figure out how to make their art come alive in our systems.
Michael.