@lonemountain thanks for the kind words.
I found that artist on Qobuz but not that specific release?
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@ghdprentice I have great respect for both your experience and demeanor. Thanks for sharing it with others here. If you are ever in Baltimore/DC central Maryland area would love to have you over for a visit and listening session sometime. Cheers! |
It’s an interesting topic! As a music lover my perspective is I have no control over how a recording is made. I do have Audacity software and know how to use it to make my own remaster (it happens) but I’d rather spend my time listening to whatever happens to have been served up. I do have control of what I listen to things on and even some control on how those things sound in each of my rooms. So I am armed and dangerous there. Whatever the music industry might serve up, I am in a very good position to wean the most enjoyment possible out of it. That’s what makes me happy and content. Often there are multiple versions mastered differently available and if I care enough for a particular composition, I will seek out the one that tickles my fancy. Often but not always that may even be the technically best version available but you never know. Anything is possible! My tolerance typically ends with cases where I can hear noise and/or fatiguing distortion but cases like that are very very very rare, in fact I can’t think of any off the cuff
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It’s never a good sign when a music lovers conclusion is most music is not recorded very well. Time to learn to appreciate recorded music better or maybe find another hobby.
on the other hand it’s common for an audiophile to make that claim because most music fails to meet their standard for good sound for either objective and/or more subjective reasons. A better hifi cannot make music that is poorly done sound the way they wish it would. It’s all a losing proposition
Better for all to accept each recording for what it is: a unique work of art. Each will sound somewhat different. The rational goal is to be able to hear whatever is there that the artist and producers intended then either like it or not. There is no rule that says all works of art must be technically perfect Where would impressionist artists like Monet be if that were the case?
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