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Isn't it really about quality of recording?

Are most of us just chasing our tails?

I mean you listen to a variety of recordings and some sound a lot better than others. Your system has limited impact on how good recordings can be. I am awestruck how some music sounds and clearly my system has nothing to do with it, it all occurred when the music was produced.

We talk about soundstage and imaging and I am not sure all the effort and money put toward a better system can really do that much for most of what we listen to because the quality is lesser than other recordings.

You can walk into a room and hear something that really sounds good and you say wow what an amazing System you have but no!!! It's the recording dummy not the system most of the time. Things don't sound so good it's probably the recording.

The dealers don't wanna talk about Recording quality no one seems to want to talk about it and why is this? Because there's no money to be made here that's why.

 

jumia
deludedaudiophile
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I suspect that many "audiophile" systems are far from it and what the owner likes, no matter the price, is the colorations of their systems. Some recordings sound better with some equalization, some with some AV processor tricks. Some sound best pure.

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tomcy6
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There are so many good recordings in every genre of music that we will never have time to listen to them all. So, no we are not chasing our tails. 

bpoletti
1,553 posts
 

The quality of any recording starts with the musician(s) and requires that all components in the chain from the musician to the listener's ears are high quality.

tylermunns
601 posts
 

I’ve found that extremely well-engineered recordings absolutely shone in ways they hadn’t before with lower-fidelity systems.

As silly and trivial as this hi-fi stuff may seem to some, there’s something to it indeed.  The willingness to jump through the requisite hoops to optimize music playback is determined by the individual.

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xpsvwino
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It's very subjective for me.  Whatever makes an emotional connection.  Sometimes it a pure tone, sometimes it a subtle detail that I've never noticed and sometimes it's a recalled memory from simpler times.  Kind of like drinking good wine.  Once you get used to something  good, it's hard to go back.

I've been looking down the rabbit hole recently and I Imagine it's like gambling for some.  Not every financial gamble pays off but when you get the occasional emotional reward, it's enough to keep you going back.

A dedicated 20A line and Furutech GTX-D outlet are scheduled for this week.  Just one more fix and i'm done:).

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