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Isn't it really about quality of recording?

Are most of us just chasing our tails?

I mean you listen to a variety of recordings and some sound a lot better than others. Your system has limited impact on how good recordings can be. I am awestruck how some music sounds and clearly my system has nothing to do with it, it all occurred when the music was produced.

We talk about soundstage and imaging and I am not sure all the effort and money put toward a better system can really do that much for most of what we listen to because the quality is lesser than other recordings.

You can walk into a room and hear something that really sounds good and you say wow what an amazing System you have but no!!! It's the recording dummy not the system most of the time. Things don't sound so good it's probably the recording.

The dealers don't wanna talk about Recording quality no one seems to want to talk about it and why is this? Because there's no money to be made here that's why.

 

jumia

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bigkidz
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Interesting topic as I have discussed this over and over again with many audiophiles.

Gary from Genesis speakers did a demonstration a number of years back where he produced 5 different materials on LP of the same song.  Each of the materials improved upon the other as far as sound quality.

As an audio manufacturer, we struggled with this for many years.  We even built a preamp that where you could select from 5 different resistors to compensate from the different recoding qualities.  I do not prefer metal film resistors but when everyone was asleep, the metal film were excellent at low level volumes in retrieving details in the recording.

How do we manufacturer a product that pleases everyone?  Well you can't.  The difference for us is that we can customize our products for every system.  So that is where we settled.

As far as bad recordings, we believe that we have a good balance in our products so we an retrieve the detail but also produce the musicality some or most people prefer (but not all).

It is sure a balancing act.

Happy Listening,.

 

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