Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System?


How do you know if it is the recording or your system?

By way of example with a focus on bass, for some songs I like the amount of bass, then another song I feel like it needs more bass to hit harder, and then another song I feel like there is too much bass and it is boomy. Does that ever happen to you? I feel like I am getting the treble sorted out, but going back and forth on the bass.

Can anyone listen to the first 20 second of the song Temptation by Diana Krall from the Girl In The Other Room album and let me know if there is a bass component that is a bit much? The vocals sound good so no issue there.

Thanks.

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Showing 1 response by kerrybh

Does every Track sound great on my system? The answer to that is no. Some recordings benefit from high-quality production and engineering while others suffer from a lack thereof. That’s a variable that is inherent  and my system won’t make a poorly engineered recording sound “great“ and I don’t think any system could possibly be different. It doesn’t mean that I can’t enjoy the music if the engineering is not masterful, but it won’t sound truly great at least to my ears. for example, I enjoy pretty much all of the music from Al Stewart. His music that was produced by Alan Parsons is, however, qualitatively different because Alan Parsons had a genius for production and engineering.
If that genius is not present, there’s not going to be any high end equipment, room, treatments, acoustics, or whatever that will cover for its absence. That doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the music but great is a relative term and it won’t be great Compared to music that has been masterfully produced and engineered

 

Recording quality is a huge variable that probably isn’t discussed enough and that’s probably because there’s not much we can do about it