If you were serious about sound you would...


If your audiophile quest is to get the best sound then buy the best equipment used to make the recordings originally. One of the few things nearly every audiophile agrees about is that you can't make the signal better than the original. So:

Solid State Logic 2 channels preamp 5k$
Meyer Sound Bluehorn powered speakers 2x 140K$
Pro Tools MTRX system 10k$
Mac Studio Computer 8k$
Total about 170k$ 
How is it possible to get better sound than the best recording studio gear? 


 

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There are tools and they are toys. Toys are for consumers and tools are for professionals. That is the difference. Perfection in sound can be from both toys and tools.

Silly premise, since the needs of producers in studios and home listeners are quite different, but if that’s what you believe, go ahead and buy it! By the way, you forgot to mention cables.

@roxy54 ...does that say that producers and consumer ears are different or quite different?? I'm really confused to what people believe...

@coralkong , are you really sure? studios use standing speakers far more often than your stereotypical assumptions. 

You can make great recordings without state of the art electronics, rooms and monitors.  They can all be compensated for by the engineer.

@onhwy61 Or, indeed (works a lot better) by quality of musician. A good musician will start and finish a track without an interruption. Some studios have backing silled musicians that can outdo any celebrity you can think of and correct if those mishap on flight.

well modern jazz is real jazz was done before about 1970, that surprises many people but listen to new jazz or smooth jazz

That is very cynical "chronology" and stereotype that will never find it’s ground about jazz or "real jazz" meaning. Yes mainstream was moving towards popularized jazz and towards more and more simplified versions, but that didn’t mean that at the very later times the number of released "real jazz" titles were a lot larger than you might know. In addition to that a HUGE variety of different new jazz directions had been evolving LARGE outside of the mainstream. I’ve been a member of BMG and Columbia House WAAAAY before even entering USA and was ordering records through my uncle. As you may know they would add freebies for you as well if you order certain quantities and the shipping was extremely low or even free in certain cases. Reading articles, researching and thereafter continuing membership I was finding more and more jazz releases that are SUBSTANTIALLY more interesting than Gerry Mulligan or even Stan Getz and every decade those titles increased.

After all it's not by far about jazz. It is about music and for me there are interesting artifacts and scores in every genre you can ever imagine

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