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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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Do we

1: Optimize to bring the very best out of the very best recordings, or

2: Optimize to bring the best out of the broadest range of recordings.

Some will argue that these are not mutually exclusive, my experience over the last 40 years or so is that they are. Choose #1 when you’re system building and you’ll have something that impresses the heck out of your friends when they come over for a listening session, but you might start to run out of tracks to play after a couple hours or they’ll get sick of the insipid tripe that you’re serving up and just leave anyway.

Choose option #2 and you’ll be stuck with the listening group until 2am and they’ll only leave once Jethro Tull’s ‘Benefit’ has been played through for the third time or they run your liquor cabinet dry.

I’ve picked #2 now, after many years of foolishly trying to achieve #1 on a real world budget.

Just my two penny worth, I know many will have a different experience.

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