Wow, I feel just the opposite! I wish more popular music was recorded with the approach more typical of classical music recordings. The most irksome thing about most contemporary popular music recordings is the squashing of dynamic range, followed by having the musicians sounding as though they're playing in different rooms. I do have to admit that, perhaps due to the microphones being placed above the strings, and piano, rather than in front, I often hear these instruments as being overly bright. Also, I would on some level expect to hear chamber music differently than symphonic music. With chamber music I tend to prefer the musicians in my room perspective a bit more, and with symphonic music I tend to prefer the perspective of being transported to the concert hall.
When will there be decent classical music recordings?
With "pop" music the recordings are such that you can hear the rasp of the guitar string, the echo of the piano, the tingle of the percussion ... and so on .... and in surround sound.
Surround sound is brilliant in picking out different instruments that would otherwise have been "lost" or merged with the other sounds.
Someone will say well that is not how you listen at a concert, but that is just archaic. As a friend said many years ago to me ... whats wrong with mono?!
I am sure Beethoven or whomever would have been excited if they could have presented their music in effectively another dimension.
I have yet to come across any classical recording that grabs me in the way it should, or could. Do they operate in a parallel universe musicwise?
I used to play in an orchestra so I am always looking out for the "extra" presence in music ... in amongst it, not just watching and listening from a distance
Surround sound is brilliant in picking out different instruments that would otherwise have been "lost" or merged with the other sounds.
Someone will say well that is not how you listen at a concert, but that is just archaic. As a friend said many years ago to me ... whats wrong with mono?!
I am sure Beethoven or whomever would have been excited if they could have presented their music in effectively another dimension.
I have yet to come across any classical recording that grabs me in the way it should, or could. Do they operate in a parallel universe musicwise?
I used to play in an orchestra so I am always looking out for the "extra" presence in music ... in amongst it, not just watching and listening from a distance
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