Female vocals
What is it about female vocals that so many audiophiles adore? Many, many speaker reviews talk about female vocals at some point as if that was the zenith of recorded music. It's the same at audio shows. Just about every room is playing some version of the same, bland music. Just once I'd like to be drawn to a room because they were playing Tool or Opeth, but nooooo, it's jazz or Norah Jones.
Exactly ... Piano is the best meter to evaluate timbre experience .... |
I somewhat agree with the OP. When did it happen, that the use of the term, "female vocals" has almost become a genre in the audiophile world? I love female vocals, but it has become almost synonymous with a sort of 'not quite jazz', lightweight, "safe" form of music. It does not actually mean, serious jazz, classical, avant-garde, female fronted progressive bands*, or even female fronted symphonic-metal bands. But I disagree with Tool or Opeth being being used for demo purposes. As big of a fan I am of both bands, they are not good for evaluating audio gear. Just because a form of music is intense, and played loud, does not mean it is hard for audio gear to reproduce. When it comes down to it, the best recordings for evaluating audio, are recordings of acoustic music, where all the musicians are playing at the same time, in the same acoustic space. With very limited done to the recording after the fact. It is harder to accurately reproduce acoustic instruments and vocals, than the vast majority of mainstream studio recorded, rock recordings. And it is easier to hear if a system is accurate with acoustic instruments and vocals than electronic instruments.
*Listen to the band Renaissance, with Annie Haslam and her 5+ octave voice, with near perfect intonation, and power to spare. |
@roadcykler - Don't forget Diana Krall! 🤣 |
I like many female artists but not female vocalists. There are plenty of female artists who write, play and sing their music. I've mostly not been enamored by a vocalist with a few exceptions. I just enjoy the female pov and they mostly do not tend to write the juvenile songs that some male artists specialize in. |
I guess i must be a minority in the club of dudes sitting around in Bonerville enamored by "female vocals". I can play a couple of instruments, but, i can’t sing....I’ve always envied guys who can sing.
Geoff Tate (Queensryche) (Diana Dumass Krall couldn’t write a song like this in several lifetimes, i bet). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIs9mK8VSg
Phil Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdTr3m8hXQs
Brendan Perry (play this at my funeral) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u8DswywW7A
Vitas (Warning: this could fk with some of ya) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXeSWncoFi8
David Coverdale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS4VxVFAmvQ
etc, etc, etc oh, here’s more SOHN (turn on your subs for this one) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xW6BvCrHp0
Eddie Vedder (Pearljam) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4na8a5b9M
etc, etc, etc Bye
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