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Bad recordings and high end audio

Hello. Have decided that the kids are out of the house and I can dedicate some space and money to my long ignored hobby. What is different now is there are so few audio stores. I firmly believe in listening to products so thus I start this great new chapter of my life. The first 2 stores I went to the people were very patient with me and I listened to a ton of combinations. They asked me did I want to hear anything else and I said  yes, ummm,.. how about Led Zeppelin? I received the same response from both stores which was “all Led Zeppelin recordings are horrible” except for this one version of Led Zeppelin 2…blah blah. So I said what happens if I am at home and i have a desire to play Led Zeppelin or another perceived poor recording? They did not have an answer for me nor did they play Led Zeppelin lol . I ended up ordering a pair of Magnepan 3.7i’s from a different store. 13 weeks until I get them, ouch. I am going to guess that people do listen to poor recordings on great systems because you just want to hear a particular album, right? Or am I missing something? Just looking for a bit of insight. Yes, I know they want it to sound the best so I will buy it but is that the only motivation. Or maybe they hate Led Zeppelin, lol.
daydream816
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tomic601
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@reubent thinking next summer audio one day, salmon the next, or this Winter in CA Yellowtail and audio…. will keep you in loop Tom
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jtcf
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@daydream816 I'm about 2 hours away from you (a couple of miles right off of 75) and I love Led Zeppelin too. If you ever head north to camp or whatever you're welcome to stop by and listen and talk equipment.Message me by clicking on my user name if you'd like.
I agree with the others to stay away from "ultra revealing". Powerful, smooth, detailed but sweet would be the description to get my attention for my short list of amps.
reubent
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fishing/audio. I'm in. Can we go for a bike ride too?
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asvjerry
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Mag itself infers '50>1K watts' for 3.7i's.....that's a huge spread.

Start with 100 per channel...can always throttle down, but have some punch at hand.  Feeding desires for power is too easy, audio or politic...;)

A, A/B, or D?

A = somewhat esoteric, happy with TT sources, subject to lengthy discussion.
A/B+ = MOR, 'generic', still the default in many ways.  $'s vary with bells & whistles onboard....HT is the bulk of the mass market.
D = Subject to the same 'discussions' of A amps, but available to suit any budget with any wattage one could sanely consider, at the limits of current specs on distortion, qualities, erc.  Mho, better with digital sources....

Since you're moving from the Maggies' 'backing into' the equipment....between 'sources' and 'driven'....it's a unique place to be. *S*

The best of both worlds will still be a compromise....
lukaske
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A good recording, is a good one;a bad, a bad one. On good stuff:you hear everything also the differency of recording ,and label. You  can hear it to , on the cd’s of Dire Straits: only the 2th last albums are good, ( the first 3 albums are a disaster). But there also other points:  On venyl , the recordings are (much) better: directly from the “mother-tape”. On cd, and streaming , they remastered, once, twice,… filtering : and after , you go listen to a “deadh” ,flat , recording. This is the biggest problem : try to listen to the best recordings of the group :most of all they are a little bit expansive than usual. On streaming :you don’t have much choice: Here in Europe, Qobuz is the best, followed bij TIDAL,Spotify …try It out: you can’t make a horse out of a donkey. Good luck and enjoy your music !
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