How can a system be judged with highly processed, non acoustic music?

It's pretty simple. Listen to some highly processed, non acoustic music. Judge it. I'm doing it right now. My judgement? It sounds good...

Feel free to judge your system playing minimally processed acoustic music.

It seems you confuse taste with acoustic science here...

You dont get the point: our brain are linked to recognise voice TIMBRE for million years and a natural piano timbre we know already what it is for all our life, we can separate here the artefact aspect of the sound and his natural aspect ... But how are we supposed to  know how would be the sound of any ELECTRICALLY processsed instrument? Where do you separate the "artefact" from the  "natural"  in the  timbre of an electronical instrument?

 A moog synthetiser...A theramin.... An electrical guitar....It is way more difficult here to separate what pertain to an artefact and what pertain to the natural....The border between the 2 dont absolutely exist....

Here’s the thing… if an instrument or voice is recorded, it’s processed. Period. There will always be some sort of EQ, effects or otherwise present on any recording. The only exceptions are recordings done in halls with open room mics. Even then, the type of mics and other room anomalies are tweaked in mixing/mastering. It’s just the way it is. The key, as mentioned above is, no need to over analyze the thing. If it sounds good to you, in your space, golden.

@mahgister  - I don't think I missed the point at all. The OP asked a simple question. I answered it. 

Hold on, wait one second, I'm judging my system again... Yep, still sounds GREAT to me, and I'm listening to amplified rock music. But at least it's socially conscious amplified rock music... this time. 

Here’s the thing… if an instrument or voice is recorded, it’s processed. Period.

You also MISS the point...

Everything is processed in a way or in another,yes, but some music is TOTALLY processed...

If everything is processed to some degree,  ANYWAY  we know how must sound a natural  voice and a noremal  piano ALREADY in our memory....

We have an imprinted distinctive  physionomy of the sound in our brain...

Acoustic science is not taste or fad. Period.

Judging an audio system ask for an archetypal model to go with, human voices and natural non electrified instrument timbre are these phenomena acoustician or musician use.... Not Moog synthetiser or electrical guitar....Or too much processed voice....

The OP question is this:

How can a system be judged with highly processed, non acoustic music?

it is not about your taste in front of your system...

Hold on, wait one second, I’m judging my system again... Yep, still sounds GREAT to me, and I’m listening to amplified rock music. But at least it’s socially conscious amplified rock music... this time.

You confuse acoustic with your taste....


The OP question is not asked to some dude about their fad....

The OP question is a serious one implicating facts in psycho-acoustic...

What is a timbre?

For example... And recognizing a timbre is the hallmark of any good audio system...You cannot judge this with heavy processed heavy metal ONLY sorry...

If the meaning of the OP question was what you say it is, this thread will be trivial : do you love your system and are you able to say that it is a good audio system for Rock music? Off course it is....I created it for my rock music....


Do you catch it?