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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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mihorn
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OP,  Can you live record the song with your system and upload? Alex/WTA

mihorn
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OP     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?

Below is my system video. Do you think the bass is too much? Alex/WTA

mihorn
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If somebody paid some money to produce recordings (incl. poor recordings) which is not cheap, somebody likes it's performance or sound. 

What is more important? The music or the sound. The performance of artists matters the most in reproduced music. If our audio reproduces the original sound/music, we still like many poorly recorded great performance music.

The problem is that our audio sounds very different from the original music. It is un-natural sound with lots of noise (glare, distortion) even if a'philes don't hear it. To regular ears (me, women, non-a'philes), even all world greatest $million systems (and every other systems) sound un-natural (bright glare, veil, harsh noise) which are un-listenable.

So, blame your bad sound audio systems. Not the recordings. Alex/WTA

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