Highly Questionable Music Suggestions.


Often when I peruse audiophile hardware reviews, in the review will be a mention of the particular selections of music used to evaluate the hardware.


Maybe someone is getting a kick back because I no longer buy those mentions before I carefully listen to them. Maybe those are well recorded “test” selections as an example, but lacking in any musical merit?  One selection I tried today today was techno disco babble, not even music. No lyrics, no melody, no harmonies and no voices.

 Allowing for different tastes and different generations still I wonder if I should trust this person’s ear/taste for any reason.


timothywright

Showing 1 response by rok2id

’High-End’ audio gear is tested and judged by how it reproduces sound, not music.
I think the logic is, if this solo acoustic guitar sounds accurate, so will LvB’s 5th.

Why not just test using Beethoven? Then, no one would hear any difference. Or at the least they would not be able to even imagine they hear a difference.

The situation you mentioned is the same on you-tube. Guys show off their systems, but seldom use real music.

One audiophile, on Steve Guttenberg’s vlog, even admitted he was into sound, not music.

Good observation.

Cheers