REAL MUSIC VS. SHOW MUSIC PERFORMANCE AT AUDIO SHOWS. PRESENTATION V. PERFORMANCE? WHY?

.... it's the 'one-upmanship: dB Dept.' that got to me, esp. mid-afternoon....

The 'show trudge' that's more tiring than exercising on stadium stairs, narrow(er) feeling halls starved of oxygen ('cuz they Is), and places out of reach of the HVACs' are starting to 'post-game locker room' on any suppliants' caught in the ped version of combat traffic....

Dinky rooms passed too slowly, 'lookie-Lou's' at the doorways, flesh boulders in the pitiful flow. 

After too short a trudge but too much daylight spent One could almost 'see'/'sense' a tangential ragged 'plane of sound' hitting the opposite wall....

*rubbing the wall* as you pass...equally doomed dude next to "What's that about?" query over da din...

"....all those spls' are softening the vinyl wallpaper....soon 'nuff, the scorch bubbles will begin to stick to everything and one in this hallway....

Keep Moving...." 

*looking like the hangin' judge mistaken for the perf....*

That's when I started to bring hearing protectors....and only took them off when I wanted to either listen, talk to, or both.

Simple, really.  If it gets through the 'cans' and Still piques ones' interest, it almost might be worth the damage... ;)

WakeUp!  *L*

...now....

Calm....and a byte of Peace 'midst the echos and reverb......*smile* ;)

Tim Buckley....haven't heard nor seen that name in way too long....

Interesting links....at least, to this one.

Someone already eluded to the "known standards" and I believe that's a big part of it. A known reference point is boring to hear time and again, but it does offer a consistent standard to evaluate with. 

The risk to manufacturers is to let someone request music that sounds poor on the setup, for any number of reasons. No speaker or gear company wants to drive everyone out of the room with a horrible impression of sound quality. 

None of us has the exact same musical taste.  It's hard to imagine that metalheads would want the same rig as jazz or classical lovers. I suggest the salespeople play what the potential customers ask for. 

Any true audiophile has multi pairs of speakers...No one set of speakers is the BEST for all the different types of music and types of recordings.....Anyway , it’s fun to switch out different speakers , depending on what you are listening to.......My most listened to speakers are Borresen X-3’s....Tekton Pendragons....Klipsch Heresy IV’s......JBL Studio 590’s....Quad L-21’s in that order......Have more fun....Own lots of speakers.....How can you be a true audiophile and own only one pair of Speakers...