What in the world is going on.....


My system cost about 75000 dollars or so.  I got the rave review LP of the new Paul Simon album.....sounded pretty lousy.  I listened to the included M3P download using AirPlay through my Denon receiver and Senheisser wireless earphones, and it sounded wonderful......   What in the world is that all about....
stringreen

Well, bad recording will of course sound bad on anything but it will still sound better with better equipment. You are talking nonsense.


Maybe I didn't say that correctly then,,IMO if you take a poorly mastered cd and play it through a very expensive,very detailed system it will sound horrible..same cd played through a less revealing(more often a more musical one) system and to me the music presents itself better..Ive heard modest setups that blow away these high dollar, state of the art,no compromise ones...my modest setup to me is way more enjoyable than the big dollar one I had ...plus I have more money to buy music and that's always a good thing in my book.

Thanks for your opinion. Opinions are like (well, you know) and everyone has one. You’re entitled to yours. Thanks for showing it to us.

P.S. Check page 1 and 2 of this thread and you can read what I said. It hasn’t been deleted! There’s no reason why it would be.
@missioncoonery - what is your current system & what was your 'big dollar' system? 
"Well, bad recording will of course sound bad on anything but it will still sound better with better equipment. You are talking nonsense."

Inna, I honestly feel differently. My current high resolution system unveils the badness of the bad recording more than the ordinary stereo I had before. It's very annoying for me to keep listening to bad sounding recording with my high resolution system, even I love them. Now I listen to them only with Bose in my car. My friend said that high resolution system is rather selective, and I didn't disagree.
I'll take some extra badness if there is much more goodness along with it. Good music is often not recorded very well, this doesn't mean that we all have to listen to it on boomboxes. And if a 'high resolution' system makes the overall experience worse than lower resolution one, this means that either that 'high resolution' system is in fact junk or that the listener cannot tolerate the increased resolution.
If I fixated on negative I couldn't listen to any recording I like. There is a lot of garbage and distortion there.