High quality recordings any genre

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Twittering Machines has new music loaded each Friday ... always interesting.

A new-old artist I recently found: Danielle Villareal.  Awesome jazz grooves ...

His latest work, Lados B.

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IMO the goal of this hobby(lifestyle) is to enjoy music at the highest sonic level possible. The problem is we are all prisoners with recording quality issues. Many Classical, acoustic Jazz, Jazz vocal and Jazz fusion are well recorded, it's within the popular music genre where most of the SQ issues occur.

I did not feel any problem with any recording good or less good even with not so well recorded live of jazz ,classical or Indian and Persian music or fado or any traditional recording as africa music ...

What i like as an audiophile it not so much the recording quality but the faithfull way my system translate it the best possible way be it TOP or less  and way less good one... You can say i did not listen only the music but the various acoustical takes from all recordings ...

I dislike manufactured recording of many pop rock music , but even saying this is over my head... I am not sure if i listened one hour of pop in all my life on my various systems ...

Then i spoke by youtube experience for short span of few seconds ...

I must be a musical "snob" ... I like the truth more than my appearance ...Then i speak it ...

For HIP recording ,as mahler member said it well, this did not matter as it once did, and this increased in quality a lot ... Even my Bach Hogwood brandenburg favorite version may suffer at some moment of squeaking sounds from ancient instruments ... Anyway Hogwood is a genius in my book and to this Bach i will add his stunning Mozart Requiem my favorite version by far so different than the Bohm version i like also ...

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My favorite audiophile album is Kurt Weil three penny opera with Lotte Lenya...

but i appreciated it more in my last acoustic room because the sound was surrounding me totally as if i was on the theater with the singers not in front of speakers  at all but around me and even in my back ..

But my actual acoustic corner with way smaller speakers in nearfield listening cannot do this even if the soundstage is stunning out of the speakers plane  .. I did not had a foldable screen now  as a sound focussing lense and 100 Hemlhotz resonators in the room  to do the job anymore ...

My actual soundfield  compensate by  more clarity of sound because my last big speakers were older ... And my main system is headphone ,which so good they are and they are, cannot beat a totally ccontrolled room like i had ...But they had an advantage : the timbre experience is natural in such a way it compensate and anyway the soundfield seems out of my head then ... 😁

My actual small low cost active speakers beat all headphones i ever own by a great margin save the AKG K340 because of his realistic timbre and more deep bass and out of the head soundfield impression in variable degree according to the recordings takes and trade-off ...

Many Classical, acoustic Jazz, Jazz vocal and Jazz fusion are well recorded, it’s within the popular music genre where most of the SQ issues occur.

I too find myself seeking out well recorded music because it makes my system come alive in a way lesser recordings cannot. 
that doesn’t mean I don’t listen to or enjoy those less well recorded music. 
for instance, for all the hub-bub about Dark side of the Moon being this amazingly recorded album I don’t agree, while I love the album it pales in sound quality to the three albums that followed it.  At least on my system that’s my impression! So do you want something sweet sounding with a lovely sultry female vocal try Karen Souza, I get lost in her mesmerizing vocals.