As one who has been concentrating on lowering the noise floor of my system for the past several years, I’m in complete agreement with Ivan_nosnibor’s above post.
Once the noise floor is lowered beyond a certain level, the realism comes out in spades. This is what we’ve been raving about in both the Total Contact and Omega E Mat threads. This is what Ivan_nosnibor touched on in his above post.
I also agree with nonoise’s above post regarding the recording engineers. They can ruin or make a recording sound great. One test that most of us can’t make is a comparison between a commercial release of a recording, and one that has been burned to a CD direct from the master tape with little or no EQ involved. Flat transfers are truly great ... they make human voice and instruments appear real.
I check out most music recommended here on this site and also in the audio magazines using Spotify. Not all, but most, are drenched in artificial digital reverb and sound as though the recordings were not recorded in a studio, but in a cave. There’s a huge difference between an excellent recording engineer who understands this concept ... and other’s who cannot keep their hands off of the dials and levers.
Simplicity is the answer in my opinion.
Frank
Once the noise floor is lowered beyond a certain level, the realism comes out in spades. This is what we’ve been raving about in both the Total Contact and Omega E Mat threads. This is what Ivan_nosnibor touched on in his above post.
I also agree with nonoise’s above post regarding the recording engineers. They can ruin or make a recording sound great. One test that most of us can’t make is a comparison between a commercial release of a recording, and one that has been burned to a CD direct from the master tape with little or no EQ involved. Flat transfers are truly great ... they make human voice and instruments appear real.
I check out most music recommended here on this site and also in the audio magazines using Spotify. Not all, but most, are drenched in artificial digital reverb and sound as though the recordings were not recorded in a studio, but in a cave. There’s a huge difference between an excellent recording engineer who understands this concept ... and other’s who cannot keep their hands off of the dials and levers.
Simplicity is the answer in my opinion.
Frank