Maybe to clarify the point a little, it's like when you're listening to music and something doesn't seem right and you wonder if it's the speaker or the music quality. Another recording it sounds great. Life is like that. If only God worked on that final seventh day think of all the problems this would have solved.
Quality of recording while evaluating speakers
Melody Gardot, Diana Krall, and others.
The above recordings are done so well they sound absolutely Great in most systems. And then there are recordings that are not as open and have trouble filling the room enjoyably and yet the melodies are very good and it's unfortunate they didn't do a better good job in the recording studio.
So how do you evaluate a speaker other than to be familiar with a recording on how it sounds in your system versus how it sounds in another system. Basically we are at the mercy of Recording quality when we listen to our systems.
Even more painful is home theater streaming when the music is wonderful but the quality sucks and once in a while it sounds really good but this can be rare which is sad.
So speaker manufacturers have to deal with these issues and we put up with poor recordings and how does this factor into your decisions when evaluating new speakers?
So we end up buying really nice speakers knowing that so much of what we will eventually listen to Will not have been recorded very well making things a bit frustrating at times. There's only so much that can be done to make things sound better given these limitations. So how does one cope with all this?