Interesting assortment of responses. I wasn't expecting this to be another controversial audiophile thread, but here we are (and my original wording didn't help much)...
Part of what I have observed in my own system is that some recordings sound incredible (I can actually appreciate jazz and classical in a way I never did before!), but some of the music I used to love the most (older loud classic rock stuff that hasn't been remastered, for instance, or newer lo-fi stuff like Ariel Pink) is just not sounding as good. I don't mean to say that it actually sounds WORSE than if I were playing it through my crappy car stereo in terms of detail and imaging.
I think what I am saying is it is just striking how relatively poor it sounds in relation to really well-recorded/mastered music. On my crappier systems, it would actually be more enjoyable to listen to mediocre records than well-recorded jazz/classical, because it was harder to appreciate without good detail, timbre, and imaging. Now, just the opposite.
I don't think I'd want to alter my system in a way to change this, because it make the great recordings more mediocre (introducing more distortion and coloration as suggested by teo_audio.
The time coherence stuff is super interesting to think about too. Not sure how it would affect some recordings more than others, though. Any ideas about that?
Part of what I have observed in my own system is that some recordings sound incredible (I can actually appreciate jazz and classical in a way I never did before!), but some of the music I used to love the most (older loud classic rock stuff that hasn't been remastered, for instance, or newer lo-fi stuff like Ariel Pink) is just not sounding as good. I don't mean to say that it actually sounds WORSE than if I were playing it through my crappy car stereo in terms of detail and imaging.
I think what I am saying is it is just striking how relatively poor it sounds in relation to really well-recorded/mastered music. On my crappier systems, it would actually be more enjoyable to listen to mediocre records than well-recorded jazz/classical, because it was harder to appreciate without good detail, timbre, and imaging. Now, just the opposite.
I don't think I'd want to alter my system in a way to change this, because it make the great recordings more mediocre (introducing more distortion and coloration as suggested by teo_audio.
The time coherence stuff is super interesting to think about too. Not sure how it would affect some recordings more than others, though. Any ideas about that?