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Andrew Haley wrote:
Audio_Empire wrote:
I realize that the magazines like 'Stereophile' et al have to try to
cater to todays equipment buyers in order to remain "relevant" with
their readers, but what is going on in audio reviewing today is akin
to somebody testing an asphalt paving machine using using salt-water
taffy instead of asphalt. The results obtained from such a test have
absolutely no bearing on how the paving machine will perform when
paving roads with hot asphalt! Likewise a speaker review (for
instance) using studio recorded pop music bears little or no
relation to how that speaker system might perform with REAL, live
acoustical music and anybody who thinks that it does, is deluded.
So what? I've never seen any evidence that great-sounding speakers
don't sound great with all kinds of music. Also, it makes sense to
listen to speakers playing the kind of music you know well.
That's incorrect for a start. I repeat. If you don't have a good idea
what real music sounds like, then you have no basis for judging whether
a piece of reproducing equipment is accurate or not. Case in point. A
speaker system, reviewed by a rocker several years ago was declared to
have the best bass that the reviewer in question had ever heard. When I
got to audition the same speaker, I found that the bass was wooly, and
had a huge mid-bass peak . It might have made the kick-drum of some rock
group sit up and do tricks, but it made organ music sound dreadful.
Problem was, the reviewer didn't know the difference because he only
auditioned the speaker with music he liked and that music was all
electronic studio produced and manipulated sound. I.E. not real
instruments playing in real space.
Those of us who have been listening to The Dark Side Of The Moon for
the last forty years continue to be delighted when a system reveals
some subtle detail we hadn't heard before. That's priceless.
Hopefully, you know what real music sounds like and don't judge sound
quality using solely artificial musical performances such as "Dark Side
of the Moon".
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