@mahler123
my take on this is that yes, most good systems will play all musical genres pretty darned well, make them sound very good
but all systems, even good ones, have specific strengths and weaknesses in the soundscape they present and volume level they play best at ... for classical music, especially symphonic music, benefits from speakers which have refined, not splashy treble -- and which presents music with scale, meaning large wide deep soundstaging, furthermore, there needs to be very natural and pure timbre
other systems that do rock or modern popular music very well may have great visceral impact and speed and might be more forward in their treble presentation to allow the listener to hear layers and layers of multitrack detail
some lovely single driver systems do smaller scale jazz and vocals very persuasively but could sound overwhelmed with hard driving rock for instance... and so on...
Do people really believe that some systems are good for Classical and bad for everything else, and vice versa? I would hope that a good system should excel in all areas of Music
my take on this is that yes, most good systems will play all musical genres pretty darned well, make them sound very good
but all systems, even good ones, have specific strengths and weaknesses in the soundscape they present and volume level they play best at ... for classical music, especially symphonic music, benefits from speakers which have refined, not splashy treble -- and which presents music with scale, meaning large wide deep soundstaging, furthermore, there needs to be very natural and pure timbre
other systems that do rock or modern popular music very well may have great visceral impact and speed and might be more forward in their treble presentation to allow the listener to hear layers and layers of multitrack detail
some lovely single driver systems do smaller scale jazz and vocals very persuasively but could sound overwhelmed with hard driving rock for instance... and so on...