zekezebra
pfm Member
I see countless complaints of the sound quality of re-masters and modern recordings, myself included.
Last week I spent an evening in a bar where everything was played a bit too loud (for conversation) through big sets of JBL speakers and stuff that I would normally say was "a bad recording/mastering" sounded perfectly acceptable!!
Today I had to work at home and had internet radio going all day through a SqueezeBox Boom and once again at no time did I feel that the sound was unacceptable. Some tracks I even tried through my main system and yes the limitations were obvious.
My partner feels the same, she has a modest system but has bought CD's to mine, Matalica comes to mind, and not liked the "sound". If I try to say that's what it really sounds like she looks at me as if I'm mad!
I know that folk here are striving for great sound but for me that only seems to come with great recordings/mastering which seems to be few and far between these days that is for the majority of stuff that I like.
I know some will say it's my crap system but it sounds great on the good stuff but mighty poor on lots of modern stuff!
Last week I spent an evening in a bar where everything was played a bit too loud (for conversation) through big sets of JBL speakers and stuff that I would normally say was "a bad recording/mastering" sounded perfectly acceptable!!
Today I had to work at home and had internet radio going all day through a SqueezeBox Boom and once again at no time did I feel that the sound was unacceptable. Some tracks I even tried through my main system and yes the limitations were obvious.
My partner feels the same, she has a modest system but has bought CD's to mine, Matalica comes to mind, and not liked the "sound". If I try to say that's what it really sounds like she looks at me as if I'm mad!
I know that folk here are striving for great sound but for me that only seems to come with great recordings/mastering which seems to be few and far between these days that is for the majority of stuff that I like.
I know some will say it's my crap system but it sounds great on the good stuff but mighty poor on lots of modern stuff!